ELA

🔠 Spelling Words-Inflected Endings

Inflectional endings are suffixes (like -s, -ed, -ing, -er, -est) added to the end of a base word to change its grammatical function, tense, number, or comparison without changing the core meaning. They commonly signify plural nouns, verb tenses (past/present), or superlative adjectives.

names

named

naming

hopes

hoped

hoping

dances

danced

dancing

drops

dropped

dropping

wraps

wrapped

wrapping

basketball

airplane

birthday

driving

traded

handwriting

📚 Vocabulary Words

1. Citizenship-the position of being a citizen of a country with all the rights that come with it

2. Continued- goes on without stopping

3. Daring- courageous and bold

4. Horrified- filled with great fear, horror or dislike

5. Participate- join with others or take part in something

6. Proposed- suggest something to others for consideration

7. Unfairness- state of being unfair or unjust

8. Waver- to pause when being unsure

📖 Reading Focus: Biographies

We will continue our Language Arts lessons with reading biographies while looking for text evidence of what good citizens do. We will use text features such as captions and timelines to help students understand the information better. Students will determine the author’s purpose  and author’s claim from our selected readings. We will focus on cause and effect since this is still a concept most students are struggling with.

📝 Grammar Focus 

This week in grammar students are learning about subject and object pronouns. Subject pronouns are used as the subject of a sentence. Students will determine which subject pronoun works best in the sentence. Object pronouns take the place of an object pronoun. Students will also determine which object pronoun fits into the sentence correctly. Review these with your child this week!

✍️  Writing Focus 

This week students will work on opinion writing this week. They will be using Utah Compose to help them as they read a series of articles and form there opinion about if all cars should be flying cars or not. They will form their opinion, use reasons to back up their opinion and create a strong writing piece in Utah Compose.