The Weekly Roar
November 13, 2017
PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF QUIZ TEST DATES. SPELLING AND READING VOCABULARY/PHRASE QUIZZES WILL BE ON THURSDAY OF THIS WEEK!
Our Week Coming Up At A Glance:
- Spelling words for the week. (Suffixes: -ful, -ly, -ness, -less, -ment): lately, settlement, watchful, countless, steadily, closeness, calmly, government, agreement, cloudiness, delightful, noisily, tardiness, forgetful, forgiveness, harmless, enjoyment, appointment, effortless, plentiful Challenge: suspenseful, merciless, seriousness, contentment, suspiciously
- Quiz: Thursday, November 16, 2017
- We will be working on using a colon to introduce a list and also to express time.
Reading:
- Vocabulary Words: analysis, argument, causality, comparison, evidence, explain, identify, parallelism, persuasive text, relationship
- Quiz-Reading Vocabulary/Phrases-Thursday, November 16, 2017:
- We will be taking a reading assessment. Tuesday, November 14, 2017
- 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 continue our novel study, Bud, Not Buddy.
- We are beginning our poetry unit. This is will cover about three to four weeks. We will be reading several different forms of poetry, and we will also begin our first PBL (Project Based Learning: A teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem or challenge.), and write our own historical poem about Thanksgiving.
Social Studies:
- We will continue looking at events that lead up to the Declaration of Independence such as, The French and Indian War, The Proclamation of 1763, The Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and The Intolerable Acts. The student will choose a side, loyalists or patriots, and prepare for a mock trial!
The students will begin their research on key figures that helped write and participated in the Declaration of Independence. They will include facts such as, date of birth, key position the individual held, what influence they had on the independence, etc. They will be creating a Smore flyer, much like the one Thomas Paine wrote, persuading others to side with freedom.
From The Seele Office:
How Can Your Student Practice At Home?
Dates To Remember:
Monday, November 13th - Friday, November 17th: Book Fair!
Tuesday, November 14th: Grand Friends Day! (Lunch is as follows: Ferrier-12:05-12:35, Schluter- 12:10-12:40. These are different than our normal lunch times. Please mark your calendars!
Thursday, November 16th: 4th & 5th Music Program at 6:00p.m.
11/20-11/24: Thanksgiving Break, NO SCHOOL! :)
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