Homework September 28, 2017

Island of the Blue Dolphins spelling quiz
Complete Tall Tale Comic strip on www.storyboardthat.com

Homework September 27, 2017

Island of Blue Dolphins/Assateague Island Worksheet (Both sides)

Students are working on their Tall Tale Comic Strips.
- Due by the end of the day Friday, September 29th.
- Username and Password info was taken home by students today.
- Students may work on it outside of class. The link is below.
www.storyboardthat.com

There will be a Spelling quiz Friday for students that did not attain 100%on the prequiz.

Homework September 26, 2017

We are working on a self-Tall Tale comic strip in class. Today we began with a graphic organizer and began using the storyboard that website. Tomorrow in class, our classes will complete it.

Students will not have corrections due for their Spelling words this week. All students who received 100% will be informed tomorrow in class.

Homework September 25, 2017

Students were asked to write a Limerick.
 - 5 line humorous poem
 - the subject matter is Pumpkins
 - Lines 1,2, and 5 rhyme
  - Lines 3 and 4 rhyme
Spelling pre-quiz on Island of the Blue Dolphins tomorrow:
                                                                                                                                    coast

       feast

      speech

      wheat

      Spain

      paint

      arrow

    needle

     charcoal

  praise

  faint

  maintain

  crease

 grain

  breeze

  willow

  appeal

  bowling

  complain

 sneeze

  dungarees

  bungalow

 campaign

  speedometer

  referee

Homework September 22, 2017

No Homework

Homework September 21, 2017

Quiz on Thunder Rose
Students were encouraged to bring the textbook home today.
Complete questions 2 and 3 on page 74 in your notebooks.
The Quiz will include:
Vocabulary from the story
Similes and Metaphors
Cause and Effect
Homonyms

All materials are in students' folders and textbook.
Here is a study guide which may help. Click on the link below:
Thunder Rose

Homework September 20, 2017

Quiz on Thunder Rose Friday
Students were permitted to take textbooks home today and tomorrow if they would like to read the story on their own.
We will review in class tomorrow.

Homework September 19, 2017

Complete the Cause and Effect worksheet for this evening.

There will be a quiz on  Thunder Rose Friday.
Tomorrow we will begin to review and read the story.
Thursday we will listen to the story and finalize the review.
The quiz will be on comprehension, similes, metaphors, and hyperboles
Story Vocabulary
Homonyms
Cause and Effect

Homework September 18, 2017

There will be a quiz on Thunder Rose this Friday. We will read and review in class. Students are welcome to take texts home if they would like to reread the story on Thursday.
Complete your Tall Tale brainstorm this evening.

Homework September 15, 2017

No written homework this weekend.
Make some time to read!

Homework September 14, 2017

There will be a Spelling Quiz on Thunder Rose tomorrow for those students that did not receive 100% on the pretest.
Autobiography covers and corrections are due tomorrow.

Homework September 13, 2017

No Homework, except reading a book of course.

Homework September 12, 2017

Students completed their Spelling pretest for Thunder Rose. Corrections (5X apiece) are due Friday.
We will have the actual Spelling test on Friday. Students who received 100% will not take that test.
No written homework tonight.

Homework September 11, 2017

There will be a Spelling Pretest on Thunder Rose tomorrow.
Students have their Spelling list words in their folder.

Thunder Rose Spelling Words

 fever

 broken

           climate

           hotel

           basic

          vocal

          native

          silent

          labor

         spider

         label

         icon

        agent

        motive

        vital

        acorn

        item

       aroma

       ego

    solo

      society

       rhinoceros

       notation

       idealistic

       equation

Homework September 8, 2017

Students had their Red Kayak in class today.
Several students informed me they are having difficulties logging onto the AR website. I will work with those students early next week to rectify this issue.

Homework September 7, 2017

Quiz on The Red Kayak tomorrow
Students were instructed to take their text home if they would like to reread the story.
We reviewed in class today.
Students should go over the following items to prepare:
1. Kinds of Sentences
2. Homographs
3. Story Elements
4. Red Kayak vocabulary
All materials are found within the student's folders.
Students were instructed to take their folders home to review.

Here is the link and instructions to view the textbook online:

1.    Go to www.pearsonrealize.com 

2.   Click on “Sign In”

3.   Enter your username

a.    Your username is ns in lowercase letters followed by your 4 digit ID

Example:   ns1234

4.   Enter your password.  Your password is abc123.  Do not change it.

5.   Select “English” as your language

6.   Select a profile icon

7.   Pick a background image

8.   Click on “Let’s Go”

Homework September 6, 2017

Quiz Friday on The Red Kayak.
We will review in class tomorrow.

Homework September 5, 2017

We began reading The Red Kayak in class today. Students are responsible to read pages 28-31 and answer the comprehension questions given to them in class today. Students did have time in class and during intervention to complete this assignment. Students were assigned this only if they were unable to complete it in class.

There will be a test on The Red Kayak this Friday.
The class will review Thursday.
The quiz will focus upon the reading, kinds of sentences and vocabulary from the story.

Homework September 1, 2017

No Written Homework this weekend. Enjoy your extra day off.
Be sure to get some reading time in this weekend!