This week we will finish Unit One: Discovery Begins with Fiction.  We will review character feelings and motivations, context clues, summary, prefixes, suffixes, making inferences, and theme. 

In writing, will work on adding prepositional phrases the our writing. We will also continue to revise and edit our drafts. 

Look out for the study guide to come home this week.  Our first Unit Test will be Friday. 

I am moving the ELA unit test that was scheduled for this Friday to next week.  A study guide will be sent home next week to help your child prepare for the test.  If you have any questions or concerns, please email me. 

This week we will finish our study of traditional literature.  We will have our unit one test on Friday.  Please look out for the study guide to come home this week.  It will also be posted online. 

We will learn how suffixes change the meanings or words and how to use context clues to determine the meaning of a unfamiliar word.

In writing, we will revise drafts to make sure that our paragraphs and sentences are in sequence, prepositional phrases, and to combine sentences. 

This week we will continue our study of traditional literature.  This includes folktales, fairy tales, myths, and legends.  We will continue to identify the theme in each story as well as summarize the story in sequence.

Please practice retelling a story with your child at home.  After reading for 20 minutes, have them retell you the story in sequence.  Make sure they include the characters, setting, problem, and  solution. 

We are also learning about suffixes and how they change the meaning of root words.  

In writing we will learn how to revise our writing.  

This week I will to continue to administer tests assess your child's current reading level.  We are also working on summarizing stories in a logic order.  We will begin our study on traditional literature which includes fairy tales, folktales, and legends.   

We will look at how prefixes and suffixes change the meanings of words.

In writing, will continue to work on drafting our stories into paragraphs. 

This week we will continue to work on making connections when we read.  Last week we learned that readers make connections that better help them understand the text they are reading.  These connections give us background knowledge into what is happening in the text we are reading. We can make text-to-self connections.  This means that something in the text reminds us of an experience that has happened to us.  Text-to-text connections reminds us of something we have read in another text.  Text-to-world connections remind us of an experience that has happened in the real world.  Finally, text-to-media connections remind of us an event on television, the internet, or in a song. 

We will start looking at traditional literature this week as well.  We will learn how to summarize the story in logical order using transition words.  We will also paraphrase the theme in fables, legends, and myths.  

In writing, we will continue to work on drafting stories by organizing them into paragraphs.  We will look at the differences in types of nouns.  Singular vs. plural. Common vs. Proper. We will practice capitalizing titles before peoples' names, and family members names in our writing. We will learn how to use commas in a series.  For example,  I have two dogs, one cat, and a pet goldfish.

Our word study will focus on synonyms and antonyms.  Then we will move on to prefixes. 

Welcome to our class page!  This week we will continue to work on making predictions before and during reading.  Please have your child use clues from the title and cover of their book to make a guess about what they think the book will be about.  They should also confirm or revise their predictions while reading.  Please set aside 20 minutes of uninterrupted time to read silently.

 In writing, we are working on listing ideas to write about.  We are finishing our heart maps.  This is a heart that lists the people, places, and things closest to our heart.  Next, we will pick a topic and start drafting our ideas. Please make sure that when your child is writing, they are capitalizing titles before names of people, such as Mayor Parker.  Also when family members are used as a name, such as Aunt Tina called.  Or, I will call Dad to ask permission. We are also working on putting commas between the date and year, after the salutation and closing in a letter, and between city and state.

For word work, we will work on nouns, synonyms, and antonyms.