9/18 Read aloud from "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Reviewed Book Report Procedures.
Corrected complete sentence/sentence fragment homework from yesterday.
Continued our RHYME work: Rhyming Crossword - finish for HW.

9/17 Read aloud from "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Reviewed Book Report Procedures that we received yesterday.
Returned arbookfind.com assignment. Any errors must be corrected for HW. 
Taught/reviewed definitions of sentence and sentence fragment.
Sentence/fragment assignment. Finish both sides for HW.

9/16 Editing/proofreading practice
Read aloud from "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Gave our BLUE reading folders that will hold all AR Tests, notes, guidelines, book reports, anything for reading.
Gave out copies of Book Report Procedures and went over them. here is a copy on this page under Useful Links.
Explained to children about word puzzles called Pundles. Showed them many samples. There will be a new one on the board every Monday for them to try and guess.

9/13 Read aloud from "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Corrected vocab/read HW: Inferring from Context: Identifing the Identity of a Speaker
Listening Skills (which we will work on every Friday): "Summer Camp"
Quiet Reading also called DEAR Time  - Drop Everything And Read - which we will also have every Friday. These books must be finished by Sept. 30. See schedule to right.

9/12 Computer room: We printed out our summer reading tests.
Then we used the website arbookfind.com to look up 10 assigned book titles and locate the following information about each one: author, reading level, interest level and points that can be earned for successfully passing the AR test. Finish for HW.
Inferring from Context: Identifing the Identity of a Speaker - Finish for HW.

9/11 Continued our read aloud book "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Finished the "Senseless Sentences" we started yesterday.

9/10 Continued our read aloud book "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Writing sentences: children had to unscramble groups of "random" words to create sentences that make sense, including the correct punctuation. We will finsh tomorrow.

9/9 Corrected 2 ELA assignments from last week: Rhyming Words and Using the Context.
Continued our read aloud book "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl. 
Began to sign up our Sept. books, which must be finished by Sept. 30.

9/6 No class due to 12 o'clock dismissal. See due dates.

9/5 Summer reading - we took the AR tests on the summer reading books. As per Sister Susan's directive, these grades count towards the first trimester report card. 
Worked on vocabulary skill: Inferring from Context - finish for HW if not done.

9/4 Began our first read-aloud book: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl. We will begin each class with a read-aloud story.
Rhyme: some words that look alike (cough and tough) do not rhyme. And some words that do not have a single letter in common (flew and through) do rhyme .
HW: Finish rhyming sheet.

9/3 Reviewed supply list. 
Gave out directions to cover marble notebooks.
Due: Sept. 20
Collected summer reading papers. Many were not turned in.
Discussed book due dates - see list on this page.
Books must be by Newbery  authors. See list on this page. Children must have a Newbery book to read every day.