The Weekly Roar
March 19, 2018
~Benjamin Franklin
Our Week Coming Up At A Glance:
*****Your students have had the spelling and reading vocabulary words since Wednesday, March 7th, for the quizzes this week. They have also been on Quizlet since then.
Writing:
- Spelling words for the week. (Long i and Long o): sign, groan, reply, thrown, strike, mighty, stroll, compose, dough, height, excite, apply, slight, define, odor, spider, control, silent, brighten, approach Challenge: require, reproach, defy, plight, opponent
- Quiz: Wednesday, March 21, 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 22, 2018.
- Vocabulary Words: introductions, details, drafts, genre, grammar, mechanics, multi-paragaph, organized structure, simple sentences, specific facts (We are now reviewing the words that we had from the beginning of the year.)
- Quiz-Reading Vocabulary/Phrases-Wednesday, March 21, 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 begin our study of Manifest Destiny and the Westward Expansion.
How Can Your Student Practice At Home?
A Message From Mrs. Droddy
Dates To Remember:
Thursday, March 29th: Banner Rally - 8:15 (Kinder-2nd) 9:00 (3rd-5th) - Cafeteria
Friday, March 30th: NO SCHOOL!
Tuesday, April 2nd: 3rd STAAR Release Test
Thursday, April 4th: PTA Meeting in LCR at 1:30
Thursday, April 5th: Kindergarten Registration from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Monday, April 9th: STAAR Rally at 8:00am in the cafeteria
Tuesday, April 10th: STAAR Testing - 4th Grade Writing & 5th Grade Math
Wednesday, April 11th: STAAR Testing - 5th Grade Reading
Thursday, April 12th: STAAR Make up test
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