Grades went home today

Look for progress reports tonight. 

Students should study for Word Whiz test tomorrow.

Those who have not finished independent reading books (about 10 students) NEED to finish as we have already started our essays on them and will be finishing those essays (first draft, anyway) on Monday.

Word Whiz Review

Tonight's homework is to complete two worksheets in preparation for the Word Whiz TEST on FRIDAY.  Both sheets are due tomorrow, and over 20 minutes was given in class to get a solid head start.  Students SHOULD use their notes if they find that they can not answer automatically.  One sheet is a crossword puzzle using all the language arts terms that we have studied so far, and the other is a combination of fill in the blank sentences and matching definitions for the fun and useful words we have learned this year.   

 

Reading Project & Homework

Independent Reading projects should be halfway done, since we are halfway through the marking period.  Specifically, students should have completed the reading of their books, and be starting to think about their essays, which we will begin at the end of this week or the start of next week.  Most students are nearly or completely finished their books, but in looking around the room today, I noticed that even though they had a three weeks and a 5 day weekend, some students had still read fewer than 100 pages in their books.  Please check in to make sure your son/daughter is on track to have the book finished in the next few days.

 

There is no homework, especially since some kids still need reading time. 

 

The only exception is a few students in Block 4 who had their vocabulary work from the other day returned and had to re-do a portion of it that had not been understood.