Monday, December 16, 2013

January Book Report Assignment


January Project
“Story Quilt”
Type of book:  Fantasy

       *Find a fantasy book that interests you and get it “okayed”
      
       *Good books teach us things and make us think.  What did you learn from the fantasy story you read?  Make a nine patch quilt on a poster board (it is a three by three array of squares).

       *Fill seven squares with a written description of different things the book taught you.  It could be a fact or an opinion (life lesson).  In each square have an illustration that matches your sentence/sentences.

       *In one square “rate” the story using any system you prefer:  stars, thumbs up or down, numbers, etc.

       *In one square include the title, author and copyright date.

       *Work neatly, think creatively and have good sentence structure.

DUE DATE:  January 31

Unit 13 Spelling Words

Word Preview: 
stop
am
talk
whether
fine

Challenge Words:
metric
customary
capacity
weight
length
meter
liter
gram

Our skill for the week is to add suffixes to words ending in one vowel and one consonant.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Unit 12 Spelling Words

Word Preview Words: 
class
piece
surface
river
common

Challenge Words:
urban
rural
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Washington D.C.


Our skill this week is spelling plural nouns.  Today in class we're talking about 6 rules for making words plural. 

Monday, December 2, 2013

Unit 11 Spelling Words

Here are the words for Unit 11 spelling.  Our skill for the week is working with contractions.

Word Preview:
matter
stand
box
start
that's

Challenge Words:
Megalopolis
Population
Density
Pollution