Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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



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