October Going Fast!

October seems to have whipped right by us like the wind we somedays have.
Anyway, in Language Arts we have been working on these areas/ skills:

Reading: Using the Reader's Workshop concept we have been reading novels chosen by the students, responding to each chapter by writing in Response Logs, and discussing the elements of narrative fiction. We are now moving on to a whole class novel study.
We have just begun our Novel Study using the novel, "Maniac Magee." Title pages are due Monday, 22nd.

Reading Comprehension: Each week we read a couple of reading selections drawn from narrative, factual articles, cartoons, recipes, etc. and answer multiple choice questions that test comprehension of these passages.

Writing: We are working on improving our skills of descriptive writing: The first draft of a description of a celebration meal will be due Wednesday, 24th.

Sentence Combining; Each week we try to work on improving our composing of good sentences by doing sentence combining exercises: Next week we will be working on "Goal" and "Fish Story" due by Monday, 29th.

Spelling: There will be a new spelling word list and unit work for Units 4 and 5.