Homework: Monday, November 14th

Reading Challenge:  students should continue reading nightly for the reading challenge.  Turn in the calendar on Wednesday to count your minutes toward the challenge.

Spelling:  red, orange, yellow, and green group have their spelling packets due Friday.  Blue group has definitions due Thursday, and spelling packets due Monday.

Floor plan:  All students have to make a floor plan of David Howard's house (from Chapter 7) .  They have graph paper to do this on.

Language Arts: Week of November 14th

Reading:
This week we will read Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 in Shiloh.  The comprehension activity for Chapter 7 is a floor plan of David Howard's house, and for chapter 8, the kids will write a summary of the events of the chapter.  Please do not read ahead

Vocabulary:
The blue spelling group will need to learn their spelling words for vocabulary.  The other kids will have words from Chapter 8.  The red vocab group will have: excuse, breeze, lift, and uncovered; the purple vocab group will choose their own words when they read the chapter.

Grammar:
We will be learning plural and singular nouns.

Writing:
The kids will start typing one of their journal writings to edit it for conventions and ideas.

Spelling:
red group (word families ick, uck, ack): tack, lick, kick, luck, sick, pick, tuck, back, pack, rack, shack, tick, stuck, quick, trick, truck, thick, snack, black, quack

orange group( long vowels: oo, u_e, ui, short u, oddball): cube, food, fruit, crust, bloom, smooth, suit, built, dude, skunk, broom, mood, bump, juice, trust, build, moon, prune, spoon, tooth

yellow group: (diphthong oo (soon) oo (good) ou (could)): soon, good, cool, crook, fool, wood, could, noon, groom, hood, root, stood, tool, hook, stood, tool, hook, troop, foot, hoop, should, brook, stool, proof, wool, would, soot, roost

green group(inflected endings ing, s, ed): crying, cries, cried, replying, copying, carrying, studying, stays, replied, enjoying, copied, studies, replies, carries, enjoys, stayed, staying, studied, copies, carried, enjoyed, hurrying, hurries, hurried

blue group (adding ion: base -de, drop de + sion, base -it, drop it + ission): explode, explosion, admit, admission, decide, invasion, omit, permission, submit, decision, conclusion, omission, protrude, invade, intrude, submission, protrusion, permit, intrusion, conclude, division, allude, divide, allusion

Homework: Wednesday, November 2nd

Reading:
We  kicked off our 25,000 hour reading challenge yesterday.  The kids need to record their minutes on the reading calendar, and return it each Wednesday to be tallied.

Spelling:
Red, Orange, Yellow, and Green spelling groups have their spelling packets due Friday.
Blue group has their definitions due Thursday, and their spelling packet due Monday.

Portrait of Judd
Some kids need to finish coloring their portrait of Judd Travers

Language Arts: Week of October 31st

Reading:

This week we finished answering questions about chapter 4 in our class novel Shiloh.  Wednesday we read Chapter 5.  We will do vocabulary and a summary for this chapter.

Vocabulary:

red group: pickup, saucer, sloppy, evening

purple group: unfasten, meadow, jowls, aim, pounding

Grammar:

We are learning the difference between common and proper nouns.  

Spelling:

red group (-nt, -nd, -nk ending digraphs): went, sand, pink, send, wink, hunt, bunk, land, bank, pant, junk, wind, print, stink, plant, blank, spent, blend, stand, drink, thank, trunk, want, think

orange group (short a CVC, long a CVCe, long a CVVC, oddball):  space, rain, Jack, black, pain, brain, paint, place, rash, blame, train, main, faint, want, chain, camp, tail, said, frame, flash

yellow group (sounds ar, or, er): jar, earn, torn, search, snort, hoarse, hard, pearl, horse, worth, core, serve, worst, chore, bore, yard, spur, score, lurk, march, snore, sir

green group (plural nouns "es" and "s"): benches, gloves, foxes, guesses, brushes, speeches, splashes, scratches, horses, mixes, churches, crashes, voices, peaches, eyelashes, kisses, sketches, ditches, leashes, changes, branches, watches, places, ashes

blue group: (base word ends in -t +ion, base word ends in -ic +ian): assert, assertion, magic, magician, invention, digest, music, suggestion, optic, optician, digestion, invent, clinic, adoption, musician, diagnostic, logician, suggest, adopt, insertion, logic, insert, diagnostician, clinician