Wednesday April 12th, 2017

Vocabulary

1. bittersweet
2. animosity
3. ruthless
4. sophisticated 
5. tangible
6. obstacle
7. separate
8. preparation
9. appearance
10. existence 

Spelling Challenge

Word Search

Reading

"BYOB - Bring Your Own Book"

In our class reading time, students bring their own books to dive into! Students discuss their reading and are given a comprehension worksheet to complete over their reading. 


For students who did not bring a book to class, they chose from the class library, or the Central Texas Library Selection. 

Worksheets

• "Reading Prompts"

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge 

"Right to be Upset" 

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

Worksheets

• "Creative Writing Prompts"

Homework

Any unfinished class work.

Wednesday April 5th, 2017

Vocabulary

1. dialogue 
2. amnesia
3. connoisseur
4. hallucination
5. lackadaisical
6. rambunctious
7. improvise
8. paranoia
9. extraterrestrial
10. tyrannical 

Spelling Challenge

Students Choice! 

Reading

"BYOB - Bring Your Own Book"

In our class reading time, students bring their own books to dive into! Students discuss their reading and are given a comprehension worksheet to complete over their reading. 


For students who did not bring a book to class, they chose from the class library, or the Central Texas Library Selection. 

Worksheet

• "Reading Comprehension Prompts"

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge 

"Most Terrifying Evil Character" 

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

Worksheets

• "Creative Writing Prompts"

Homework

Any unfinished class work.

Wednesday March 8th, 2017

Vocabulary

1. antidote 
2. emperor 
3. mystic 
4. resonate
5. ravine 
6. hovel 
7. sentries 
8. rendition 
9. nonviolent 
10. enchantment 

Spelling Challenge

Students Choice! 

Reading

"BYOB - Bring Your Own Book"

In our class reading time, students bring their own books to dive into! Students discuss their reading and are given a comprehension worksheet to complete over their reading. 


For students who did not bring a book to class, they chose from the class library, or the Central Texas Library Selection. 

Worksheets

• "Complete the Sentence"

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge 

"Hack" 

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

Worksheets

• "Organize Your Opinion"

Homework

Any unfinished class work.

Wednesday February 15th, 2017

Vocabulary

1. adoration
2. betrothed
3. sentimental
4. enamored
5. infatuation
6. bouquet
7. cherub
8. fourteenth
9. moonstruck 
10. unrequited

Spelling Challenge

"Spelling Battleship"

Students were given a paper battleship board, and filled in the boxes on side A with their vocabulary words going up, down, and across. On side B they marked their misses with an "x", and their hits with an "o". 

Reading

"BYOB - Bring Your Own Book"

In our class reading time, students bring their own books to dive into! Students discuss their reading and are given a comprehension worksheet to complete over their reading. 


For students who did not bring a book to class, they chose from the class library, or the Central Texas Library Selection. 

Worksheets

• "Summarizing Reading"

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge 

"Potions and Spells" 

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

Worksheets

• "Narrative Writing"

Homework

Any unfinished class work.

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.

Monday November 28th and Wednesday November 30th, 2016

Vocabulary

(Words with -ed or -ing endings, prefixes, A- vowels, double and commonly confused consonants, and Suffix -ious)

1. accuse
2. omitted
3. seize
4. criticize
5. prophecy
6. incident
7. achieve
8. receive
9. leisure
10. relieve

Worksheet
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Reading

Students select a book to read in class today. Encouraged to bring their own book to read in class. 

Worksheets

• ""

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge "Remote Control"

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

Worksheets

• ""

Homework

Any unfinished class work.