week of 10/29
This week: Monday/Tuesday: Lesson 5 in Word Explorer vocabulary book is due for 6th and 7th grade.
We will be reviewing the Vocabulary 3 words this week. Students will be bringing home 2 practice sheets for these words – a crossword and word-search. These will be due next Monday/Tuesday and will be used to review for the Vocabulary 3 Quiz next Wednesday/Thursday. Students should be reviewing these words with you nightly.
Students should also be reviewing the prefixes we have discussed and learned in class. We will be adding to these prefixes next week – adding suffixes and root words. Please review these nightly as well. They will have a quiz over these in a couple of weeks.
Students will be bringing home a short TAKS practice passage: Earth – Blue Planet. Students should take notes following the procedure discussed in class (read 3 paragraphs and check in with yourself – take notes), and then answer the questions for Non-Fiction on the TAKS notetaking sheet (blue – glued in spiral) given them. This will be due on Thursday/Friday.
Thursday and Friday students will be working on a Current Events magazine assignment during class, and then will have 2 short TAKS practices to do as homework – following the same procedure described above. The 2 practices are: “Volcanoes” and “Tornadoes”. These will be due next Monday/Tuesday.
Reading logs are due Friday as usual. Please be sure your child is reading at least 10 pages per night and giving you a verbal summary of what he/she read before you sign.
Next week: Lesson 6 in Word Explorer will be due on Monday/Tuesday for 6th and 7th grade. We will review for the Vocabulary 3 Quiz – quiz set for Wednesday/Thursday. Students will be receiving the set of Vocabulary 4 words after the quiz, so expect these to come home.
In class: we will be reviewing and checking the TAKS practices and working on Stanford skills and practices in class. The homework will be to review their notes and words, and work on the vocabulary lesson.
Have a good week!
