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Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! Thank you for entrusting me to teach your children each day. Please know that I think about them often and pray for them daily.
This upcoming week, the students and I will be revisiting some recent skills: theme and context clues. I don't usually give out homework, but please be on the lookout for a short assignment involving context clues to go home either Tuesday or Wednesday. In language, we will be talking about verb tenses and subject/verb agreement. We will also have a visit from ASAP, an organization that gives students tips for living a life free from substance abuse. Spelling Words: actor, stroller, scatter, daughter, platter, customer, ancestor, flavor, mirror, vinegar, bachelor, behavior, calendar, waiter, singular, maneuver, observer, wander, traitor, janitor Vocabulary 1. capacity—the maximum amount or number that can be received or held 2. enthralled—to have your attention held by someone’s or something’s skill or appearance 3. fallow—not used but still able to grow crops 4. insight—to clearly understand the true nature of something 5. negotiate—deal or bargain with someone in order to come to an agreement 6. regulation—in agreement with official rules or laws 7. resemblance—similarity that is easy to see 8. unseemly—inappropriate or improper Helpful Links Verb Tense Game Context Clues Online Quiz Context Clues Rap Context Clues power point Introduction to Theme How to Find the Theme of the Story Topic Vs. Theme Please, please encourage your children to visit the helpful links if they are struggling with a skill. Also, please check out the Upcoming Events Tab to see what's happening in December at SMS. As always, thanks for visiting! :) ~Mrs. Lee
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Happy Review Week...and last week before Thanksgiving break! Yay! I will not be introducing any skills this week; we will also not be testing this Thursday. Instead, we will be taking an in-depth look at Thanksgiving through the use of various informational texts. Students will use these pieces of text to review main idea and key details, a skill that has proven difficult in the past. We will also be discussing the importance of citing text evidence when looking for answers to questions about the text. This is a skill that students will need for the remainder of their academic career.
Even though we will have a review week in reading, we are going to keep moving forward in language. If your child is in my language class, we will be discussing action verbs, direct objects, and indirect objects. REMINDER: Friday is E-Day! Students will be out of school and should come home with short assignments for each class. Helpful Links Action Verbs and Objects Quiz - Even grades it for you! GREAT resource! Action Verbs and Objects Lesson Flocabulary Main Idea Rap Main Idea and Key Details Video As always, thanks for visiting! :) ~ Mrs. Lee Happy Saturday! We have only two four-day weeks between us and Thanksgiving Break! While I'm certainly looking forward to some time with family, my students and I have so much to do and learn in these eight school days. This week in reading, we will be studying the genres of lyric poetry and sonnet. I think the kids will welcome and enjoy this change of pace from our usual stories. We will also work on identifying two things within the pieces of text: theme and personification. We will have three days to work on these skills in class before we test on Thursday. We will not be in school on Friday due to Veteran's Day. In language this week, we will identify appositives and appositive phrases. We will test on that skill Thursday as well.
Spelling words: simple, royal, national, valuable, survival, muscle, whistle, squabble, durable. incurable, scramble, scruple, quadruple, noodle, squiggle, throttle, securable, beagle, dimple, bicycle Vocabulary commemorate - to do something to honor or remember contemplate - to think about something seriously for a long time forlorn - lonely and miserable majestic - grand and impressive lyric poetry - has a song-like quality and expresses the speaker's thoughts and feelings sonnet - a 14-line poem that expresses a single, complete thought rhyme scheme - the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem meter - the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem Helpful Links Appositive Phrase Game 2 Minute Teacher: Appositives 19 Examples of Personification Identifying Theme Game "Finding a Theme" lesson - VERY HELPFUL! As always, thanks for visiting! :) ~ Mrs. Lee |
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