Firchau: Language Arts (Week of March 5)

READING

This week we will finish creating the imaginary kingdom projects. The students will do this in class. The are to be finished by Friday (Pajama Day) at the end of the day.  Check your student's agenda for daily assignments.

MONDAY: Bridge to Terabithia Unit Test

TUESDAY: Bridge to Terabithia movie-to-text comparison

WEDNESDAY:  Introduction to haiku. HAIKU HIKE in the Land Lab (bring boots and proper clothing!)

THURSDAY:  Work on haiku

FRIDAY: PAJAMA DAY!

WRITING

This week will explore the poetic form of haiku.  The students will listen to, read, and create haiku.

We will continue with learning parts of speech, focusing on pronouns.

This week's mini-lessons will focus on analyzing character traits and feelings.

SPELLING

haiku

syllable

stanza

kigo

wabi

Students will continue working on their in-class creation of an imaginary realm.  They are excitedly working on these ... ask your student about them!

HOMEWORK

See your student's agenda for daily assignments.  They will be posted here as they occur.

Don't forget ...

Read 20 minutes (or more!) each day

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of February 26)

READING

This week we will finish reading Bridge to Terabithia. We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of the story influences the plot and plot sequence, and how the author's creative use of language can influence our senses and the mood of a story as we read it. We will also discuss how character motivation influences the plot in a story.  Check your student's agenda for daily assignments.

The students will integrate the writing skills into extended response comprehension assessments (watch for details in your student's agenda).

WRITING

The week's writing practice will come from extended response questions in Terabithia comprehension assessments as well as responses to quick-write prompts and will challenge the students to create quickly prepared responses to oral prompts.

We will continue with learning parts of speech, focusing on pronouns.

This week's mini-lessons will focus on analyzing character traits and feelings.

SPELLING

Spelling words from chapters 11, 12, 13 of Bridge to Terabithia. The students will create analogies, associations, or illustrations for their words.

This section's words ...

doused

dredging

relentlessly

objection

retrieved

chaos

assuring

constricting

riot

traitorous

Assignment:  

Assessment: 

The students will continue working on their in-class creation of an imaginary realm.  They are excitedly working on these ... ask your student about them!

HOMEWORK

See your student's agenda for daily assignments.  They will be posted here as they occur.

Don't forget ...

Read 20 minutes (or more!) each day

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of February 20)

READING

This week we will continue reading Bridge to Terabithia. We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of the story influences the plot and plot sequence, and how the author's creative use of language can influence our senses and the mood of a story as we read it. We will also discuss how character motivation influences the plot in a story.  Check your student's agenda for daily assignments.

The students will integrate the writing skills into extended response comprehension assessments (watch for details in your student's agenda).

WRITING

The week's writing practice will come from extended response questions in Terabithia comprehension assessments as well as responses to quick-write prompts and will challenge the students to create quickly prepared responses to oral prompts.

We will continue with learning parts of speech, focusing on pronouns.

This week's mini-lessons will focus on analyzing character traits and feelings.

SPELLING

Spelling words from chapters 11, 12, 13 of Bridge to Terabithia. The students will create analogies, associations, or illustrations for their words.

This section's words ...

doused

dredging

relentlessly

objection

retrieved

chaos

assuring

constricting

riot

traitorous

Assignment:  Write sentences that contain context clues for the meaning of each vocabulary word..  Due 2.24.25

Assessment: Tuesday, 2.24.12

HOMEWORK

See your student's agenda for daily assignments.  They will be posted here as they occur.

Don't forget ...

Read 20 minutes (or more!) each day

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of February 6)

READING

This week we will continue reading Bridge to Terabithia. We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of the story influences the plot and plot sequence, and how the author's creative use of language can influence our senses and the mood of a story as we read it. We will also discuss how character motivation influences the plot in a story.  Check your student's agenda for daily assignments.

The students will integrate the writing skills into extended response comprehension assessments (watch for details in your student's agenda).

WRITING

The week's writing practice will come from extended response questions in Terabithia comprehension assessments as well as responses to quick-write prompts and will challenge the students to create quickly prepared responses to oral prompts.

We will continue with learning parts of speech, focusing on pronouns.

SPELLING

Spelling words from chapters 8, 9, 10 of Bridge to Terabithia. The students will create analogies, associations, or illustrations for their words.

This section's words ...

clambered

complacent

dread

flounce

garbled

obliged

prissy

raveled

spectacle

canopy

conspiring

discern

earnest

repented

sodden

sporadically

vanquished

flank

intently

suppress

scrawny

anxiety

absorbed

disguised

Assignment:  Create analogies, associations, illustrations, or antonyms for each word.  Due 2/7/12

Assessment: Tuesday, 2/7/12

HOMEWORK

In order to give the students time to prepare for Science Fair, there will be no out-of-class assignments this week.

Ongoing: Read 20 minutes

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of January 30)

READING
This week we will continue reading Bridge to Terabithia. We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of the story influences the plot and plot sequence, and how the author's creative use of language can influence our senses and the mood of a story as we read it. Check your student's agenda for daily assignments.

The students will integrate the writing skills into extended response comprehension assessments (watch for details in your student's agenda).

WRITING
The week's writing practice will come from extended response questions in Terabithia comprehension assessments as well as responses to quick-write prompts and will challenge the students to create quickly prepared responses to oral prompts.

We will continue with learning parts of speech, focusing on pronouns.

SPELLING
Spelling words from chapters 8, 9, 10 of Bridge to Terabithia. The students will create analogies, associations, or illustrations for their words.

This section's words ...
clambered
complacent
dread
flounce
garbled
obliged
prissy
raveled
spectacle
canopy
conspiring
discern
earnest
repented
sodden
sporadically
vanquished
flank
intently
suppress
scrawny
anxiety
absorbed
disguised

Assignment:  Create analogies, associations, illustrations, or antonyms for each word.  Due 2/7/12
Assessment: Tuesday, 2/7/12

HOMEWORK
Monday: Values activity sheet
Tuesday: Comprehension questions for Ch. 5-7
Ongoing: vocabulary/spelling; read 20 minutes

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of January 23)

READING

This week we will continue reading Bridge to Terabithia. We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of the story influences the plot and plot sequence, and how the author's creative use of language can influence our senses and the mood of a story as we read it. Check your student's agenda for daily assignments.

The students will integrate the writing skills into extended response comprehension assessments (watch for details in your student's agenda).

WRITING

The week's writing practice will come from extended response questions in Terabithia comprehension assessments as well as responses to quick-write prompts and will challenge the students to creative quickly prepared responses to oral prompts.

We will continue with learning parts of speech, focusing on pronouns.

SPELLING

Spelling words from chapters 5-7 of Bridge to Terabithia. The students will create analogies, associations, or illustrations for their words.  They will be assessed on Thursday, January 26.

This section's words are ...

crimson

distracted

parapet

regicide

snickered

tangle

annoyance

consolidated

obsessed

speculation

splurged

surplus

betrayed

exiled

reluctant

smirked

tolerated

vile

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of December 12 & 19)

READING
This week we will continue reading Bridge to Terabithia.  We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of a story can influence the plot, plot sequence, and language's influence on senses and mood.  Check your student's agenda for daily assignments.


WRITING
Last week the students learned the correct way to punctuate dialogue. This week they will apply what they learned about the use of quotation marks as they narrate a scene from The Snowman. The narrations will be due on Monday, December 19th. There will be time in class this week for the students to work on this writing assignment.

GRAMMAR
The students will complete Daily Language activities each day in class.

SPELLING
Spelling words from the first two chapters of Bridge to Terabithia will be assessed on Tuesday, not Monday, as previously posted.

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of December 5)

WRITING
This week our writing focus will be on direct quotations and their use in writing dialog. We will be using the picture book, The Snowman, as a basis for creating dialog within a narrative.

READING
This week will begin the novel Bridge to Terabithia. We will focus our guided reading on how the setting of a story can influence the plot, plot sequence, and language's influence on senses and mood.

SPELLING/WORD STUDY
This week's spelling/word study comes from chapters one and two of Bridge to Terabithia.

crouched
despised
grit
plunked
primly
cagey
endure
hypocritical
muddled
pandemonium
proverbial
pudgy
thrashed

The students' word study challenge is to come up with an analogy for each word or form of the word. Analogies describe the relationship between two things and are written in the following format ...

________ : ________ : : ________ :________

Analogies are read, "(blank) is to (blank), as (blank) is to (blank)"

For example, human : arms :: octopus : tentacles

The spelling test will be on Monday, December 12. The analogies (completed on loose leaf) are due on that date also.

In order to increase fluency and comprehension, the students will be reading each chapter of the book the night before we read and discuss it in class.