Wednesday December 14th, 2016

Vocabulary

Academic vocabulary, and hard to spell "e" and consonant words. 

1. arctic
2. awful
3. thoroughly
4. tragedy
5. pilot
6. escape
7. fascinate
8. strengthen
9. athletic
10. further

Spelling Challenge 

"BINGO!" or "Scrabblegrams"

Students get to select our last spelling challenge of the year! 

Reading

Class Reading 

Students participate in BYOB - Bring Your Own Book. Each student reads for 20minutes and answers a worksheet to strengthen reading comprehension skills. 

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "New Year Ahead"

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used a holiday themed worksheet to enhance their creative writing skills. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

Wednesday December 6th, 2016

http://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/001-Pages/lined-paper-primary-print-manuscript-handwriting-practice-printable-worksheet.pdf

Vocabulary

(Academic words and -ely words)

1. squirrel
2. concentrate
3. pronunciation
4. whether
5. immensely
6. sincerely
7. truly
8. suspicion
9. recognize
10. realize

Challenge
"BINGO!"

Reading

"BYOB - Bring Your Own Book"Students select a book to read in class today. Encouraged to bring their own book to read in class. 

Worksheets

• "Responding to Literature"

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge "Mind Your Business"

Students took 5 minutes in class to write as much as they could on the prompt using their creative minds! 

Worksheets

• "Writing Prompts"

Homework

Any unfinished class work.