RELIGION

Advent

**We will not have a test this week. In class activities will be used for a grade. :)

READING

Unit 3, Weeks 1-2

*Narrative Nonfiction: A true story about a person by a narrator; can have text features such as photographs and/or captains

*Photographs & Captions: 

• Photographs show something in the text or gives more information about the topic. 

• Captions give details about the photograph.

*Author’s Purpose: 

• Author’s Purpose is the reason, or purpose, that an author writes.

• Authors write narrative nonfiction stories to inform, or teach readers about a topic. 

Personal Narrative/Time Words: 

• Personal narratives are written to inform the reader about an experience.  

• Time words are used to show when each event happened. (Examples: First, Next, Then, Finally, etc.)

*Synonyms: 

Words that are have the same or almost the same meaning

GRAMMAR

Unit 3, Week 2

Present Tense Verbs:

• Present-tense verbs tell about actions that happen now. 

• The form changes to agree with a subject. Add -s to most verbs if the subject is singular, except when the subject is I or you. Add -es if the verb ends with s, ch, she, or x.

• Do not add -s or -es if the subject is plural.

SPELLING

Unit 3, Week 2

1. light

2. sight

3. mind

4. cry

5. tie

6. high

7. wild

8. dry

9. try

10. lie

11. hay

12. steak

13. begin

14. those

15. apart

MATH

• Word Problems (one step)

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE

• Christmas Activities