Dear families,
This post relates to my 5th grade only writing class (4th block of the day).
NEW UNIT OF STUDY
We have finished persuasive essays! Scored essays will be coming home for you to sign later this week. Please be on the lookout!
We are beginning a new unit in research. This unit will take us until about spring break. Please ask your child about his or her chosen research topic and sub-topics. On Tuesday in class students will be introduced to a new tool called Google Keep that they will be using to organize their research notes. Please encourage them to show you Google Keep on their Google accounts!
WORD STUDY
We are deep into our new word study routines! This two weeks (February 22-March 4) we have a packet with the list and all assignments included (attached at the bottom of this post).
This week, we have word study homework today (illustrated words for section 3) and Wednesday (practice test). The test will be on Friday, March 4. Please encourage your child to study!
As you can see when you open the document below, we have three sections in our word study practice with each new bi-weekly list:
- commonly misspelled words (this week is their/there/they’re)
- strong vocabulary words (this week we have luxurious/anxious/ridiculous/ambitious)
- Greek and Latin roots (this week is frac/struct/fac/rupt)
GRAMMAR
We are practicing identifying spelling and capitalization errors in practice sentences as warm-up, and we will work on identifying those same mistakes in our own writing.
TYPING
Two to three days a week, students are working for about 10 minutes on typing.com to become more efficient. They can always practice at home as well! Everyone’s typing skills are quickly improving as the year progresses. You can find out their progress at any time at home by logging in to their typing.com account.