Reading
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Monday, December 1st
Target Skill: Analyzing Illustration: Wolf Island
Writing
November 11th
Personal Essay
For this writing piece, students will be reviewing mentor texts and discovering the Big Idea of the text. They will then come up with example from their own lives that model that Big Idea.
Big Idea Topics:
Reach for the Impossible
Accept Change
Do the Right Thing
Give People a Change
Even doing small things can make you a hero in someone's eyes.
Respect Nature
Growing Up Takes Time
After reviewing all of these texts, they will then choose one big idea and write a personal essay about it. They will write about a time that that Big Idea was important to them and tell the story of how it impacted their life.
Spelling
Test Date: Spelling tests will be every Thursday unless otherwise stated
Lesson Fifteen
Compound Words
B.
grandmother
birthday
sunburned
everything
sometimes
homework
airplane
something
daylight
scorekeeper
everybody
afternoon
C.
grandmother
birthday
sunburned
toothbrush
sunglasses
hopscotch
tablespoon
watchtower
sandcastle
cardboard
seafood
ladybug
Lesson Sixteen
Compound Words
List B
popcorn
football
moonlight
eyesight
airport
haircut
fireworks
outside
playground
rattlesnake
handwriting
decided
List C
eyesight
airport
haircut
fireworks
outside
playground
rattlesnake
grasshopper
meanwhile
spokesperson
thunderstorm
earthquake
Students will learn about action verbs, present, past and future verbs. They will be able to identify verbs in sentences as well as learn about helping verbs and the verbs of Being. (am, is, are, was, were)