Finish Chapters 1 and 2.

Everyone has to finish chapters 1 & 2 of the Spiderwick Chronicles by Sunday. If you are finished, read it again.

You must read 20 minutes a day, five days a week.

Bring your reading calendars to class on Sunday.

Consonants and Vowels

There are five vowels: A, E, I, O, U.

All the other letters are consonants.

Test and drama tomorrow

We have a spelling and vocabulary test tomorrow and we will film part of the drama.

We Have Our Drama Tomorrow

We will be filming our drama tomorrow. These people need to be ready:
Kareem, M.S., Ameed, Taleb, Ward, Lyana, Shahed, Maya, Amelia, Masoud, and Omar A.

Go over your lines.

We did writing today. Some students need to finish their writing for tomorrow.


Students need to work on spelling, vocabulary, and storytelling. This week students need to tell me about one thing that can make the school better.

A very busy week.

We have a lot to do this week.

We started Chapter 1 of the next Spiderwick Book, Lucinda's Secret. The students should be rereading Chapter 1 at home.

We have new spelling and new vocabulary. The tests for both will be on Thursday. Study them.

The storytelling: Tell me about one thing that would make the school better? Why?

Students should be reading 20 minutes a day, 5 times a week.

Some student still have extra work they need to do. It will be done this week at home.

Extra writing: Ali, Lyana, Omar A., Shayma, Maya, Fitian, and Masoud

Extra storytelling: Amelia, Omar A., Masoud, Lyana, Lilia, and Shahed

Dramas!

We had our spelling test today and then we started filming the dramas.

We still have to do some more filing next week.

Students with extra work need to do it this weekend be ready on Sunday.

Extra writing work: Taleb, Safa, Masoud, Shayma, Ali, Lyana, Maya, Mona, and Tareq


Extra storytelling work: Maya, Lilia, Amelia, Shahed, Lyana, Masoud, and Omar A.

Simon (Omar A.), Thimbletack (Shayma), and Jared (Amelia)

The Troll (Rifaat)

The Goblins (Mohammed, Kareem, and Ameed)

Mom (Safa), Simon (Lilia), Mallory (Mona), and Jared (Tareq)

More Dramas and there, their, and they're

We are still working on the Spiderwick drama. These people need to bring in things by Wednesday.

Omar Fitian - cat
Ali - book and sticks
Beesan - jacket
Rifaat - funny hat
Adam - green and dirty clothes
Kareem - green clothes


We also worked with the words its, it's, there, their, and they're.


Some students have extra writing homework:

Taleb, Safa, Masoud, Shayma, Ali, Lyana, Maya, Mona, and Tareq.

Give me your essays by Wednesday or next Sunday.

Some students have extra speaking homework:

Amelia, Omar A., Shahed, Lyana, Masoud, Lilia, and Maya.

Practice your speaking and be ready by next Sunday. If you have any questions I will help you before or after school and on the break.

Here is a game.

I found this game for doesn't and don't

http://www.grammar.cl/Games/Dont_Doesnt.htm

Dramas and Reading

Dramas

We are practicing our Spiderwick drama everyday. We will film it on Wednesday. Memorize your lines. Make sure you know what to do. If you told me you will bring things in, bring stuff tomorrow.

We still need clothes for the goblins and troll, vampire teeth, crazy clothes for Thimbletack, clothes for mom, and sticks.

Reading

Student need to read at least 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week. They can read more and I want them to read more. When they are finished reading their parents have to sign their name on the day they read. No cheating.

Read at home!

Students you should be reading at home everyday. Listen to your moms and dads, or you will make me mad.

When you are reading and find words you don't know you can use these dictionaries to help you. Just type in the word.

This website is a great online dictionary.

http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/english

Spiderwick Dramas

We finished rewriting our essays this week. I will check them this week.

We practiced our Spiderwick dramas this week. The students had a lot of great ideas today and they need to start bringing stuff into class tomorrow.

This is what students said they will bring in.

sword - Rifaat, Ameed, and Omar A.
cat - Ameed and Rifaat.
fire - Shayma (done)
three sticks - Lyana
big book - Ali
wig - Taleb, Maya, Ward, Shayma, Omar A.
hats - Maya, Amad, Omar, Ali
green clothes - Adam, Masoud, Kareem
vampire teeth - Rifaat
jacket - Beesan

We will talk more about what we need tomorrow.

We have a spelling test tomorrow.

We talked about it today. Can you tell me why people grow square watermelons?

Our New Dramas

We've started our Spiderwick dramas. This week and next we will practice and memorize them. Next week we will get props and costumes, and act.

We also did some speaking exercise today. Next week the students will have a speaking test.

Study the spelling for Thursday.

Writing

If students did not finish their writing today they have to do it tonight.

Study the spelling.

Work on the song. This one is hard.

We will work on our Spiderwick Dramas tomorrow.

Mmmbop by Hanson

A lot of new stuff today.

We have a lot of new stuff this week. We are starting to work on our Spiderwick Dramas. Tomorrow we will write them and then we will practice and memorize them. Next week we will perform in and start the next book.

There are new spelling words.

Get ready for your storytelling this week. Only one person went today. That is not good.

Finishing the Spiderwick Chronicles and Speaking

We finished the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone. If students didn't finish it they need to do that this weekend. All students need to bring the book to school next week. We will be using it.


We have a spelling test tomorrow.

Students need to be working on their fruit and vegetable projects for next week. The can make poster to bring to class and have pictures. They must talk for 45 seconds about why we should eat their fruit or vegetable.

Writing Day

We are working on Chapter 7 of the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Today students wrote about what they would do if they were older. I will edit the papers and we will rewrite them on Wednesday.

Tomorrow we will read, work on commas, and have a speaking competition.

Study the spelling and work on you fruit and vegetable storytelling for next week.

We have a short week and a lot to do.

We talked in class today about chapters 5 and 6 of the Spiderwick Chronicles. We will be reading and talking about chapter 7 this week.

We talked about our dramas and students continued to talk about their favorite sport in class.

Students have also started a new storytelling project. Next week, they have to talk to the class about a fruit or vegetable and why the class should eat it. They can talk to people, use books, or the internet to find out about it. They should also bring something into class like a poster, picture, or the fruit or vegetable. They must speak for 45 seconds without reading.
They can talk about:
the nutrients
why it is healthy for you
how it tastes
what you can do with it (how to cook it)