The character word for the month of August is "respect." Please spend time with your child discussing what having respect or being respectful means.
Please note: School pictures will be taken Thursday of this week.
Work for the week of August 25 - 29 is as follows:
Monday - We will be going to the Media Center for orientation and book check out. Students will be given their reading ranges based on the results of the STAR Diagnostic Reading Test, so please be sure to ask them about this. Students MUST read 3 A/R books per 9-week period, and these will be recorded as test grades, so students should be reading at home. There is no specific homework this evening other than reading. Tomorrow we will begin prepositions.
Tuesday -
Classwork:
Study of prepositions
Students will define prepositions and be able to recognize prepositional phrases in sentences.
1. Handbook - P. 65, Ex. 11 - Review orally and identify the prepositions and prepositional phrases.
2. Handbook - P. 68, Ex. 12 - Complete 1-10 - Write only the prepositional phrases and circle the prepositions. These will be collected for a grade.
3. To help students understand prepositions as parts of speech give location or placement, we will draw a house. On the house, students will illustrate the following prepositions: on, above, in front of, over, inside, outside, around, near, beside, and within. After illustrating these prepositions on the house, they will then write sentences describing their drawings. In the sentences, prepositions should be underlined.
Homework - Complete the house and sentences for those students who did not complete this in class.
Regular classes - Memorize 20 prepositions by Thursday
Gifted class - Memorize 30 prepositions by Thursday
Wednesday:
1. Workbook - Pages 57 & 58
Complete houses illustrating and writing sentences for prepositions
Gifted class - Also read The Pigman
Homework - Describe your room writing a descriptive paragraph and using at least 10 prepositions. Suggestions are as follows: in the corner, by the window, in my room, on top of the dresser, next to the bed, on the floor, within my closet, under my bed, near my room, hanging around my room, behind my door
Remember to continue studying your prepositions for Friday's test.
Thursday:
Students should copy the warm-up information about conjunctions. They should remember the acronym FANBOYS to help them remember the coordinating conjunctions.
Handbook - Complete p. 70, Ex. 14 - follow book's direction
Workbook - Complete p. 60
Handouts about conjunctions - Pages 72 & 73 (Gifted class will not do these, but they will read The Pigman.)
Homework - Study for tomorrow's test on prepositions and conjunctions. Regular classes should know at least 20 prepositions, and the gifted class should know 30. Study and be able to recognize these, as well as conjunctions!
Friday - No Homework, but students should be reading as much as they can in their A/R books.
Have a great Labor Day Holiday!
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