1-24-16

Monday is our Mom's Best Friend vocabulary test.  The words are pretty easy this week.  If you want to practice, go here!

We spent our spelling time last week working on Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and root words.  There was no actual spelling list last week.  The assignment for the weekend is to finish the packet.  MOST kids finished in class on Friday.

Our grammar focus has been to review what we know about capitalization.  The students know, that from now on, on assignments that are to be in complete sentences, capitalization errors will count against them.  They had a worksheet to finish for Monday on capitalization.  They are doing REALLY well on this.

Our next RC test will be due on Friday, January 29th.  It is quiz #9.

FAST tests are coming up the first week in February.  These are the tests that the kids took near the beginning of the year that measure their fluency and comprehension.  Nothing to study for!

Our reading focus last week was summarizing.  The kids read articles on blindness (went with our story of the week), and had to summarize and present to the class. This week we'll finish up Mom's Best Friend, and move on to Yang the Second.  We'll work with compare and contrast.