Prefix flashcards and SOW Practice Oct 1, 2013

Today in class we continued to work on our sight words.  On Friday we will have a quiz using the ipods on all of your sight words that you have learned so far.

After our sight words we wrote in our journals about how lunch and recess is going.

We practiced our sentence of the week skill (to vs too vs two) using this online activity.

Finally we wrapped class up by creating our prefix flashcards.  We will be assessing our understanding of all of these prefixes, roots, and suffixes later this week.

Root flash cards: Sept 30, 2013

We started out class working on our sight words and then had DEAR time!  After that we learned a new sentence of the week skill.  Our skill this week was learning the difference between to, too, and two! As we learned in class....

• Two = number
• To = to show location or as part of a verb
• Too = also, as well, or in excess, a lot of something.

Your homework tonight will be to create your 5 new sentences mimicking the ones we worked on in class.  Here is a link to the sentence of the week.  

We also worked on finishing up our root flashcards.  These are due tomorrow as well so make sure you have your pictures filled out!

Sentence of the Week and roots: Sept 23, 2013

Happy Monday!  We started class by working on our sight words and then followed that up with DEAR time.  After DEAR we spent more time working on our sentence of the week skill from last week, they're vs. their vs. their.  We still have some work to do on this but we'll review the worksheet we worked on today in class tomorrow and hopefully that will help clear up any confusion!

We finished up class by continuing to learn more root words.  We are almost done with our list, you guys are doing a great job of staying focused on this!  When we are done I will put together a master list with all of the prefixes, suffixes, and roots that we have learned.

Don't forget to bring your reading strategies bookmarks with you to class tomorrow!

Root words: Sept 20, 2013

We started class by reviewing our sight words and then journaled for a bit.  After journaling we practiced our sentence of the week skill (their vs they're vs there).  Here is our sentence of the week practice.

After correcting these sentences we kept working on our prefixes and suffixes.  Today we worked on root words.  You guys were super creative in coming up with words!  We will continue working on these on Monday!

MAPS Testing: Sept 19, 2013

Today we took our math MAPS test!  Tomorrow we will continue with comm arts as usual.  We'll work on our sentence of the week skill and prefixes and suffixes.

No homework!

MAPS Testing: Sept 18, 2013

Reading MAPS test today!!  Tomorrow we will complete the math portion of the MAPS test.

Library Orientation: Sept 17, 2013

Today we had library orientation!  We spent comm arts learning about the library, meaning how to use it, the different resources they have, and had a book talk!  The book talk with Mr. D and Ms. Barszcz highlighted some of the new and most popular books they have in the library.

So make sure to hop onto your Destiny Quest in the next couple of days and fill up your "Want to read" lists!  Don't forget about those ebooks!

Tomorrow we have MAPS testing!