Thursday, August 26, 2010

Spelling List Week 2 "Grandfather's Journey"

Spelling List
1. snow
2. grind
3. still
4. coast
5. odd
6. crime
7. gold
8. wrote
9. flight
10. build
11. broke
12. blind
13. folk
14. grown
15. shock
16. ripe
17. coal
18. inch
19. sigh
20. built

Challenge
remind
approach
rigid
recognize
continent

* One of our skills to review this week is alphabetizing. When you have your child practice, it would help to have them put the words in alphabetical order. Thanks!

Friday, August 20, 2010

Spelling List (Week 1 Akiak)

Spelling List

1.gain
2.cream
3. sweet
4. safe
5. past
6. reach
7. kept
8. gray
9. field
10. break
11. east
12. shape
13. steep
14. pray
15. pain
16. glass
17. west
18. cheap
19. steak
20. chief

Challenge Words
1. graceful
2. descent
3. athletic
4. knead
5. activity

*One of the challenge words will be randomly selected to be on the test.
The pretest test will be given on Thursday, and the final test will be given on Friday.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Book Reports

BOOK REPORT DUE DATES

Sept. 7
Sept. 21
Oct. 5
Oct. 19
Nov.2
Nov.16
Nov.30
Dec. 14
Jan. 4
Jan. 18
Feb. 1
Feb. 15
March 1
March 15
March 29
April 12
April 26
May 10

Book Report Criteria
v Each book must have at least 85 pages of text.
v Books that have been made into motion pictures are prohibited.
v Students may double the amount of pages to count as two book reports.
v Students are required to do seven fiction, 3 non-fiction, four oral, and four book covers, throughout the course of the year.
v Forms for all book reports are available in the classroom at all times.
v Students are allowed to check out one book at a time from my personal library during morning work time.