The Weekly Roar
March 5, 2018
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
~Nelson Mandela
LIVE HISTORY MUSEUM!
I know this is a bit early to start reminders for Live History Museum, but we are starting to get really busy and we lose a week with Spring Break. Your students were given a Live History Museum letter in January detailing what all they needed to do for this project and the due date. Although the project is not due until May 17th, yes, you are reading that right, it can sneak up on everyone pretty quickly. This is the very last project that your students will do for me, and the grade will be given across 6 subjects, reading, writing, social studies, art, theater and tech! On May 17th we will be setting up in the cafeteria and presenting our museum to the school along with family and friends. We hope you will be able to join us!
Below you will find a few examples of Live History Museum projects. One is from one of my former students and two are from students this year.
Our Week Coming Up At A Glance:
*****Your students have had the spelling and reading vocabulary words since Tuesday, February 26th, for the quizzes this week. They have also been on Quizlet since then.
Writing:
- Spelling words for the week. (VCCV Words from other languages): ballet, echo, bouquet, cassette, coupon, safari, portrait, barrette, depot, courtesy, petite, denim, brunette, buffet, garage, khaki, crochet, chorus, essay, alphabet Challenge: encore, collage, matinee, premiere, embarrass
- Quiz: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
- We will be working on words with ie or ei: Write i before e - except after c or when rhyming with say, as in neighbor and weigh.
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Reading:
- Reading assessment, Thursday, March 8, 2018.
- Vocabulary Words: iterary language, quotation, contradictory, exaggerated, misleading, key ideas, audience, compound sentence, concluding paragraph, transitions (We are now reviewing the words that we had from the beginning of the year.)
- Quiz-Reading Vocabulary/Phrases-Wednesday, March 7, 2018:
- We will continue to work on summarizing using GIST and checking our comprehension by using Author’s Portrait.
- We will continue to practice our choral reading. This is a great way to help with fluency. We read a paragraph together out loud as a class at a pace that I set. The more we practice this, the faster we will get and the more fluent we will become.
- Your child should continue reading or be read to nightly for 20 minutes and then getting their reading log initialed.
- We will continue learning third person, as it pertains to the point of view from which a story is being told. We will also be working on sensory details, imagery and figurative language.
- We will continue our novel study on, Old Yeller.
Social Studies:
- We will be talking about the Bill of Rights a little more in depth, and what certain Amendments mean for us as citizens of the United States. We will begin our study of Manifest Destiny the Westward Expansion.
How Can Your Student Practice At Home?
I have uploaded our spelling and reading vocabulary words/phrases to Quizlet. www.quizlet.com The kids know their username and password. I had them write this information in the very front of their agendas, but just in case, it is: Username: meunicorn2016 password: unicorn5. They can log on and do flash cards and play games to study. This is a great site and can be accessed from your PC, MAC, iPad, smart phone, etc. This is a great tool for studying, and it’s FUN! Your student can also log onto, www.istation.com, to work on their reading. They know their password and username for this site as well. These usernames and passwords are user specific. This is a great tool to help them improve their reading, plus it provides data for you and I so that we can monitor the progress of your student.
Dates To Remember:
Thursday, March 8th: PTA Meeting, Kinder Program at 6:00
Friday, March 9th: Club Day
March 12th-16th: SPRING BREAK!
If you ever have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to contact me. yferrier@nbisd.org or 830-627-6779.
Always With A Roar,
Ms Ferrier