LA Week of Oct. 7

 --This week will be a review of Unit 1 skills and strategies, including problem and solution, character and setting, story structure, main idea and details, making inferences, summarizing, drawing conclusions, suffixes, context clues, idioms and adages, homophones, word families, meter and alliteration, time lines, diagrams, punctuation, sentence types, correcting sentence fragments, capitalization, subjects and predicates, sentence combining, and personal narratives.  WOW!!! We've been busy in Unit 1!  Each class will do various activities to review the skills that students need.  A Unit 1 test over these skills will take place this week.  There are no new stories, practice book pages, vocabulary words, and spelling words this week.

Graven
-Unit 1 Review test is Thursday.
-Final copy of "Focus on a Moment" is due Friday.  Final copies need to be typed or written in cursive. Students will turn in all of the writing process papers (drafts, checklists, rubrics, etc.)
-2 Reading Counts quizzes are due Friday.
-Spelling words this week are "personal words", which are all of the words students have missed throughout Unit 1 spelling tests

Monday-worksheet, spelling sentences assigned for personal words
Tuesday-worksheet
Wednesday-finish up "Focus on a Moment"
Thursday-Unit 1 test, spelling sentences due
Friday-personal spelling test, "Focus on a Moment" final copy packets are due, 2 Study Island topics are due

WRIGHT
-Unit 1 Review Test is Friday
-A few people still need to complete Reading Counts Quizzes (this was due last Friday!)
-Final copy of "My Perfect Classroom" is due next Wednesday, 10/16. Final copies need to be printed            out or turned in through Google Docs.  Students will also turn in writing process papers                              (brainstorms, drafts, etc).

Mon- Skills Test (Unit 1 Week 5)
Tue- Spelling Quiz (words from last week)
Wed- Computer Library lab to draft "My Perfect Classroom"
Thur- Begin revising/editing "My Perfect Classroom"
Fri- Unit 1 Review Test

BODKER
-Unit 1 Review Test Thursday and Friday
-Final copy of Interesting or exciting trip due Friday (may be hand written or typed)
-Reading Counts (SRI) reading test # 1 due Monday, October 21
-No Spelling this week.

Mon-Brainstorm writing ideas for An interesting or exciting trip
Tues- Complete a story web for writing assignment due Friday
Wed-Write and have someone edit your rough draft of writing assignment,
Thurs-Write final draft of writing assignment
Fri-Final writing draft due.