ELA Unit 5: Students were asked to wrtie a summary on a current event. Please have your child write a 1-2 paragraph summarizing what they read. Theyn will be sharing their summaries. The article can be from the internet or newspaper. Students are well on their way to perfecting opinion/persuasive . Students have written on their favorite sport, a pursasive letter to our school board and their opinion on "Should bike helmets be compulsory for everyone?" Students are having fun with this unit since they are big shot editors for our classroom newspaper.
Spelling home work: We are focusing on words with -ent and -ant. Patern Study: Many words feature the suffixes-ent and -ant. These suffixes mean "one who performs" when added to words to make them nouns. The suffixes mean "inclined to," "performing" or "being" when added to words to make them adjectives.