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Gold Team Reading & Spelling

I am very excited about this school year.

                                                                    It is my goal to help each of my students develop a love of reading.

Daily Work & Homework

March 8^th: Read “Hatchet” and complete a Think Sheet (Due Wed)

March 9^th: Listen to “Hatchet” and “Call of the Deep Woods” and compare & contrast the two stories; HW: Spelling Packet (Due Wed)

March 10^th: Workbook (Skills) with a partner pp. 103-110; HW: Study Guide

March 11^th: Cooperative Groups – Small Books & Review; HW: Study

March 12^th: Reading & Spelling Tests & Read AR

Homework will be projects and any unfinished class work.

Remember --- Bring your AR book to class every day!!!!

Weekly Skills & Spelling Words

Skills – Genre, Inference, Sequence, Drawing Conclusions, Conflict, Cause/Effect, Compare/Contrast, Plot, Author’s Purpose and Visualizing

Daily AR Question --- Each day, students will answer a specific question related to their AR books. For example: Describe the setting of your AR book.

Week of March 8th Spelling Words: crescent, language, vehicle, exhibit, examine, Michigan, parachute, unique, conquer, rhyme, penguin, exertion, exotic, brochure, symptom, antique, exhausted, heirloom, rhinoceros, bureau CHALLENGE WORDS: hygiene, chauffeur, ricochet, chandelier, chalet

Activities & Announcements

Disclaimer: This is a tentative schedule that may change due to student mastery of state standard or inclement weather. I will follow the board policy for absences. Please feel free to contact me at hillt@hck12.net concerning any assignment. I will contact you regarding your question as soon as possible.

Please remember that if your child has a planner, it is his/her responsibility to bring the completed planner to each teacher to initial. The assignment for the day is always posted on the board in every classroom, and each student needs to copy down any homework assignment by himself/herself. If he/she completes it in class, then he/she can bring it to the teacher to initial, so that parents will know what has been completed in class, and the night’s homework assignment.

Projects & Accelerated Reading

Please remember to be reading 30 minutes each day. Please encourage your child to strive to meet his/her AR goal each six week. He/she receives two points on his final average for meeting his/her goal. In addition, he/she will be invited to attend a special event (such as ice cream party, pizza, etc.), and he/she gets a Panther Paw each six weeks that he/she meets the goal.

Reading and Spelling Tests on Fridays!

Web Links

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/index.jsp

http://www.readingrockets.org/helping

http://www.ed.gov/parents/read/resources/edpicks.jhtml