Flat Stanley

Our class is currently reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.  We have a Flat Stanley cut-out that is going home with interested students.  If Stanley comes home with your child, please take a picture of Stanley doing something and send him back with your child the next day.  You can email me the photo and I will add it to our blog.   

Please email me if this is something you'd be interested in doing with your child and have time for.  lbateman@edisoncs.org       

 

Challenge Words

This grading period, our class will begin challenge words.  Challenge words are for students who get 100% on their spelling test on Friday. 

The challenge words are optional.  Students who choose to do them will not have a pretest for homework on Thursday.  Instead, they will use their challenge words to write sentences showing meaning and correct usage of the word or come up with synonymns for the words.  They will still be responsible for the 30 spelling words on Friday's test. Along with the 30 regular words, they'll be tested on the 5 challenge words.  

 

Poetry

Just a reminder that your child's poem is due on Tuesday, November 13.  Please make sure your child is ready to present it in front of the class with a prop, some actions, or sharing their favorite part of the poem.  Thanks! 

Rhyme

 I like to see a thunder storm,

        A dunder storm,

                A blunder storm,

I like to see it, black and slow,

Come stumbling down the hills.

 I like to hear a thunder storm,

        A plunder storm,

                A wonder storm,

Roar loudly at our little house,

And shake the window sills!

~Elizabeth Coatsworth

Hold Fast to Your Dreams

 Within your heart

Keep one still, secret spot

Where dreams may go,

And sheltered so,

May thrive and grow--

Where doubt and fear are not.

Oh, keep a place apart

Within your heart,

For little dreams to go.

~Louise Driscole

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling

The wind is passing through.

 Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I;

But when the trees bow down their heads

The wind is passing by.

~Christina Rossetti

An Emerald is as Green as Grass

And emerald is as green as grass;

A ruby red as blood;

A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;

A flint lies in the mud.

A diamond is a brilliant stone;

To catch the world's desire;

An opal holds a fiery spark;

But a flint holds fire.

~Christina Rossetti

Family Interview

We are studying culture and traditions for the next couple weeks in social studies.  Your child should bring home a paper titled Family Interview.  Please help your child fill out information about your family and your traditions.  The worksheet isn't set up in an interview format, but your child may ask you or a grandparent questions to help get information.  Please send it back on Friday, November 9.  Thanks for your help at home!

Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of December 10-14 are:

true, truth, took, again, inform, both, heart, month, children, child, build, built, understand, follow, charge, member, case, while, also, return, office, great, Miss, miss, who, died, die, changing, change, few

Phonograms

The phonograms for the week of December 10-14 are:

ph, a, ei, ai, g, ow, e, ea, ey, ar, ie, ng, ew, oo, ough, u, ou, gu, o, wh, er, ch, th, or, ed, i, wor, f, j, sh