How parents can use this page to help from home:
Character Trait of the Week: LOYALTY
Every week I introduce a character trait and read a scenario each day that focuses on the trait we are studying. The scenarios are very useful for instilling virtues in children. The students seem to enjoy them and it is my hope that they will have a lasting impact on their character development. Encourage your child to share what the scenarios were about what he/she learned about each trait.
Reading Workshop:
Strong Reader Skills Students Learned This Week:
Students will have a quiz over these skills at the end of week 3.
Writing Workshop:
5-Minute Daily Language Review Procedures:
- Use the information on this page to assess your child's understanding of the skills we've learned in class this week.
- Ask your child questions about each skill/topic and have him/her explain what they mean and how to use them.
- Help your child with any skills that he/she may need additional support with at home.
Character Trait of the Week: LOYALTY
Every week I introduce a character trait and read a scenario each day that focuses on the trait we are studying. The scenarios are very useful for instilling virtues in children. The students seem to enjoy them and it is my hope that they will have a lasting impact on their character development. Encourage your child to share what the scenarios were about what he/she learned about each trait.
Reading Workshop:
Strong Reader Skills Students Learned This Week:
- Identify and understand information in maps.
- Draw connections between visual and textual information.
- Identify a topic-related work with an unclear meaning.
- Identify relevant context that provides clues to the meaning of the unclear term.
- Use context clues to determine the relevant meaning of the topic-specific term.
- Identify relevant context clues that can help readers determine the meaning of words.
- Look for signal words and key details that reveal text structure.
- Identify the chronological structure of a text.
- Identify Greek and Latin roots.
- Use knowledge of roots and context clues to determine the meaning of words.
- Recognize the structures and characteristics of drama.
- Understand how the structures and characteristics of drama contribute to the story.
Students will have a quiz over these skills at the end of week 3.
- Week 1: Diphthongs - /ou/ and /oi/
- Week 2: Prefixes - trans, pro, sub, super, inter
- Week 3: Homophones
Writing Workshop:
- Students have been working hard on their persuasive writing. They completed an outline and are now using it to help write their draft.
5-Minute Daily Language Review Procedures:
- Students have 5 minutes to independently complete a D.L.R. Monday-Thursday. It's important that students focus and try their best to answer all the questions in the time they're given.
- After 5 minutes, we grade each question in class and discuss the correct answers. Students make corrections with a blue pen.
- The scores students earn on the D.L.R’s that are completed Monday-Thursday will NOT be recorded in my grade book.
- Every Friday students take a D.L.R. quiz. Each question on the quiz is a repeat of a question from during the week. If students study the skills during the week, they should do very well on Friday’s quiz. Quiz scores WILL be factored into student’s writing grade. The graded quizzes come home every Friday.