This week...

This week our Reading Street story is Just Like Josh Gibson. It is a realistic fiction story about a little girl that wants to play baseball in the 1940s, and we will be learning how baseball players like Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, and Josh Gibson were an inspiration to many people. The skill we will practice is Comparing and Contrasting and we will use Venn Diagrams to help us with this. The grammar skill we will focus on is making sure we are using capital letters appropriately.

Our Spelling words this week have inflected endings like -ed -ing -es -er and -est. Some words, like cry, need to have the y changed to an i before adding -ed or -es. Some words, like plan, need to have the last consonant doubled before adding the -er -ing -ed. Other words, such as like, need to drop the silent e before adding -ing. The words this week are: tried, trying, planned, planning, liked, liking, skipped, skipping, heavier, heaviest, lighter, lightest, challenge, champion, and effort.

Last week, we took our Measurement test over Inches and Feet. This week, we will practice measuring using Centimeters and Meters. We will use Base-Ten unit cubes to help us estimate the length of a centimeter.

We have also been working hard on writing an Animal Fantasy story. We developed a character, a setting, a problem, and a solution and we wrote our rough draft last week. This week, we will work on revising, editing, and publishing a final copy.