November 2, 2014 - November 6, 2015

This week we're reading A Castle on Viola Street.  It's about a family who wants to live in a nice house.  The family and the neighbors work together to fix up old houses, so people can live in them.  We learned that the theme is the message of the story.  I think the theme in this book is helping one another can lead to wonderful things.

Citizen of the Week

McKenna

Comprehension:

• Theme (You must be logged into Texas Treasures to view.)
• Author's Purpose
• Genre:  Expository, Fiction

Vocabulary:

• project, appliances, owners, construction, equipment, leaky, estimate, inch, yard, foot, centimeter, decimeter, meter
• Context Clues
• Vocabulary Game

Phonics/Spelling:

• Spelling Game
• Contractions (You must be logged into Texas Treasures to view.)
• 1.     he’d
  2.     she’d
  3.     that’s
  4.     what’s
  5.     won’t
  6.     there’s
  7.     you’re
  8.     wasn’t
  9.     we’ll
  10.isn’t
  11.we’re
  12.couldn’t
  13.I’ve
  14.didn’t
  15.they’re
  16.teacher
  17.fish
  18.pathway
  19.shouldn’t
  20.wouldn’t 

Grammar:

• Prepositional Phrases