Week of Sept. 8-12

*Tuesday, Sept. 9  is Grand Open House @ 6:00.   :)

READING:  Supermarket
GENRE:  Expository text

VOCABULARY:
1.  laundry - clothes that need washing or are being washed.
2.  section - part of a space.
3.  shelves - flat surfaces for storage.
4.  spoiled - rotted, overripe.
5.  store - a business where shoppers buy items.
6.  thousands - tens of hundreds.
7.  traded - gave something away in exchange for something else.
8.  variety - having many different kinds.

SPELLING:  
clean
agree
teeth
dream
grain
coach
display
window
shadow
cheese
peach
braid
Sunday
float
thrown
entertain
complain
bleachers
willow
wheat

Week of Sept. 1-5

NO school Monday, Sept. 1, Labor Day!  Hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend with your family!!! :)

READING :  Kumak's Fish

GENRE:  Tall Tale

SKILL:  sequence     STRATEGY:  comprehension

VOCABULARY:
1.  gear- equipment needed for some purpose
2.  parka - a jacket with a hood
3.  splendid - magnificent or grand
4.  twitch - to move with a quick jerk
5.  willow - a tree with tough slender branches
6.  yanked - pulled or jerked

SPELLING:  
using
getting
easiest
swimming
heavier
greatest
pleased
emptied
leaving
worried
strangest
freezing
funniest
angrier
shopped
included
occurred
supplying
scarier
happiest

Week of August 25-29

STORY:  What About Me?  Genre:  Fable

SKILLS:  sequence
STRATEGY:  summarize


VOCABULARY:

1.  carpenter - someone who builds with wood.
2.  carpetmaker - a rug weaver.
3.  knowledge - having information, facts, and ideas.
4.  marketplace - a place where people buy and sell.
5.  plenty - more than enough.
6.  straying - wandering away.
7.  thread - a fine twisted cord.

SPELLLING:  PLURALS -S, -ES, IES

pennies
inches
plants
families
bodies
glasses
wishes
pockets
lists
copies
parties
bunches
crashes
supplies
pencils
accidnets
libraries
mysteries
carpenters
merchants