Week 13

In reading this week we are learning about narrators in stories. Stories are written either in 1st person or 3rd person. 1st person narration is when the narrator is actually in the story. Stories written in 1st person include the pronouns I, me, us, we, etc . . . which help us know that the narrator is a character in the story. 3rd person narration is when someone not in the story is telling the story. This is like when a narrator tells someone else's story. 3rd person includes the pronouns they, them, etc . . . For spelling we are doing Sort 21 this week. These words have the long and short -e sound in them either in the 1st or 2nd syllables of the word. Also, on Friday we will be having Language Arts Test 5

In writing this week we are finishing our Poetry Unit. We will be revising and editing our poems, then we will be rewriting our poems and typing some of them on our blog. They are due this Friday November 15th.

In math we are continuing to work on Place Value. Students are doing very will with this math unit. We will be taking our text for this unit next week. We will also be retaking our test for Unit 2 this week. If students do better on this test than they did on the original test, the new score will replace the old one on this Trimester's grades.

Lastly, the Trimester ends this week. I must have all missing assignments in by this Wednesday. Please be sure that your students turn in all of their missing assignments so they can be graded on all of the work they have done.

This Week's Homework:

Monday:           Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                           Spelling Sort 21

                           Lesson 1.1 P3

Tuesday:          Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                           Spelling Sort 21

                           Big Book pg. 7

Wednesday:     Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                           Spelling Sort 21

                           Lesson 1.2 P5

Thursday:          Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success

                           Spelling Sort 21

                           Big Book pg. 10-11

Friday:              Read 20 Mins

                           *Reading Log & Road to Success