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Possessive Nouns

Warm Up - sort spelling words by categories
Classwork - Possessive Packet, Lesson 24 & 25
Literature Text, Read The Third Wish, pg 168

HOMEWORK
Plural Test, Friday, 3/3
Make sure you are studying SPELLING WORDS (40)
Text NEXT Friday

Thurs., 2/23 - Mon., 2/27

Ms. Bailey was absent on Friday & Monday.

Thurs., 2/23
Warm Up (collected for a grade)
Pop Quiz (blocks 3 & 5)
Plural Classwork, Gram text, pg. 624, Ex. 61

Friday, 2/24
Plural Warm Up
Spelling Test (Plurals)
Possessive Noun Sheet

Monday, 2/27
New Spelling words (40 words irregular and possessive)
Spelling book - pages 53-56
Possessive Packet, Lesson 24

Staff Development

Dear Parents:

Over the next few weeks, I will be out for professional development.  Please note that I will be out of the room on the following dates:
February 28
March 1, 2
March 16, 23

Plural Unit

We started a unit on PLURAL NOUNS yesterday and students received NEW SPELLING WORDS.  Today, we are going over the 8 SIMPLE RULES for making plurals (textbook, 708).

Warm Up today - Making plurals for (10) nouns.
Classwork - Copy Plural rules (notes)
Exercise 23, page 708

NO HOMEWORK
Reminder - Spelling test this Friday!

NEW SPELLING WORDS

These PLURAL SPELLING WORDS are ONE-week words.
Spelling test will be this FRIDAY!

ourselves, countries, calves, women, mice, companies, tomatoes, coaches, monkeys, churches, elk, fish, babies, donkeys, buzzes, kisses, loaves, moose, bass, radios

PROJECTS COMPELTE!

It took longer than expected, but we have finished our projects and presentations!  We had the opportunity this week to see and hear some great presentations.  We all learned a lot and the students had a ton of questions for the presenters.

GREAT JOB!

Homework for the 4-Day Weekend:
Spelling test on Tuesday....Check BLOG from two weeks ago for words starting with "VITAMIN".

Research Project due MONDAY!

Research Projects are due next MONDAY, Feb. 13th!

Students have a choice of:

PowerPoint
3-D Model
Tri-Board
Speech/recitation
Research Paper

There are 3 GRADES given to the PROJECT:
Project
Oral Presentation
Bibliography

Along with their project they MUST have an
ORAL PRESENTATION!
The ORAL PRESENTATION must sum up their research and include facts, dates, and important researched information.  They can READ from note cards or type out their presentation (it will NOT be collected).

A BIBLIOGRAPHY MUST also be attached to their project.

CRCT Practice

Today we worked on CRCT practice in reading and language arts.

Verb Unit

Today we are completing our unit on VERBS.

This week our classwork assignments included practicing the principle parts of verbs a well as the tenses.
CLASSWORK this WEEK (TEXTBOOK):
Mon - Pg. 433, Ex# 5, 493-4, Ex#1,2,3
Tues - Pg. 498-99, Ex#5,6,7,8 Wkbk 111-114
Wed - Pg. 500-01, Ex. 14, 15, 17
Thurs - Pg. 504-05, Ex# 18,19,20 Wkbk 115,116

Grammar Study

Today we finished up the classwork from yesterday:
Grammar text, 433, Ex #5; 493, Ex. #1; 494, Ex #2; 497, Ex #3
This assignment was handed in for a CLASSWORK GRADE.

TODAY'S Warm Up - Spelling 72

Today we completed the following text pages on VERBS:
Grammar text, 498-499, Ex #5,6,7,8
Workbook pages 111-114
Students who DID NOT complete the classwork have it for HOMEWORK!

HOMEWORK:  Work on Research Project DUE MONDAY!