Reading: This week students will wrap up our 'Natural Disaster Week' study. Using the informational passage "Mountain of Fire” about the eruption of Mount St. Helens, students will practice summarizing and finding evidence in the text.
ELA: This week students will learn about the power of word choice in a piece of writing and create "Dead Words" tombstones. On Thursday, students will take their weekly Spelling Test (rupt- & vac-)*. Due to the Halloween party next Thursday and no school next Friday, students will not have a vocabulary quiz next week!
*These words are different from the 5th grade list