Firchau: Language Arts (Week of October 10)

READING
This week we will continue reading the novel, The Sign of the Beaver. We will focus on motivation and mood as topics of discussion.  We will also use the text to point out the various parts of speech that we have been discussing.  

We will continue daily rereads of what we cover in class within the novel text. Research has shown that this increases reader confidence, comprehension and fluency.

Tuesday we will complete a comprehension assessment over chapters 12-15

See your student's agenda for daily assignments.

WRITING
Subject, predicate, adjective, and adverb will be our continue to be the focus in grammar. We will also be working on techniques to make writing more vivid. The students will continue their writing pieces within the Writer's Workshop. Daily Language Review will accompany our grammar discussions.

The students will also respond in their journals to various literary, artistic, and musical prompts in order to practice and apply their growing understanding of vivid language.

SPELLING/ VOCABULARY
On Thursday we will have a comprehensive assessment on the vocabulary from The Sign of the Beaver, chapters 1-15 ...

venturing
vaguely
begrudgingly
expedition
abruptly
nonchalantly
disgruntled
glowered
incomprehensible
indignant
mocking
sinew
shrewdly

The assessment will contain multiple choice, fill in the blank, context, analogies, and associations.

Firchau: Language Arts (Week of September 5)

WRITING
This week we will continue exploring, discussing, and applying the writing process. We will continue to look at the process steps in detail. We will also continue working with declarative (statements), imperative (commands), interrogative (questions), and exclamatory (emotional statements) sentences.

READING
We will begin get read through chapter 5 of the novel, The Sign of the Beaver.

SPELLING
This week's vocabulary continues from chapters 1-5 of The Sign of the Beaver

rueful

surveyor

venturing

proprietor

solitary

vaguely

expedition

begrudgingly

mite

boggy

MONDAY:
No school - Enjoy your Labor Day!

TUESDAY:
Sentence types
Writing process.
Develop a process
Review vocabulary, procedures and assignment.

WEDNESDAY:
Sentence types
Review vocabulary procedures and assignment.
Read and discuss Sign of the Beaver
Complete chapter summary (create a title name for each chapter, 2-3 bullet-pointed main ideas of the chapter, and illustration of an inspirational part of the chapter)


THURSDAY:
Begin first writing piece
Mini-lesson, "Putting muscles in your verbs"

FRIDAY:
Read and discuss Sign of the Beaver
Complete chapter summary