Reading: This week students will wrap up our 'Natural Disaster Week' study . Using the informational passage "The Evil Swirling Darkness” about the Joplin tornado, students will practice summarizing and finding evidence in the text.
ELA: This week students will brainstorm and start the rough draft of their Halloween creative writing piece - a haunted house advertisement! On Thursday, students will take their weekly Spelling Test (jur- & port-)*. 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 4th grade list