This Week's Learning

In this unit, students will read about the reasons for the first early European explorations, what exploration was like, and who went exploring. We will study navigation and life on a ship, as well as descriptions of journeys and destinations reached by explorers. In addition, interactions with native people and lasting contributions are described.

Overall Learning Concepts

• linking words

• comparative and superlative adjectives (both regular and irregular)

• learn the prefixes pro- and anti-, as well as the prefixes and suffixes -ish, -ness, -able, and -ible

• dictionary skills

Our next spelling test will be Thursday, March 12th.

This week we are reviewing spelling patterns we’ve learned for /oo/: oo, ew, o, and o_e. Your student will be assessed on these words. The Content Word for this week is discovery. This word is directly related to the material that we are reading in The Age of Exploration. Full list of spelling words below:

• whoever

• dewdrop

• groove

• disapprove

• shrewd

• undo

• movement

• balloon

• toothache

• improve

• Content Word: discovery