Name: ______

Week 5 Weekly Focus: Adjectives (Describing Words)

HM Story: “Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night”/ Comp Strategy: Compare/Contrast

Monday
Parent Initial (don’t forget to read PLN)
______/   Read for (20) twenty minutes. Practice Comparing/Contrasting
  Activity from Spelling Choice Menu/Practice Vocab Words
  Fluency “Henry and Mudge” (timed for 1 minute/parent initial)
  Math worksheet
Tuesday
Parent Initial (don’t forget to read PLN)
______/   Read for (20) twenty minutes Practice Comparing/Contrasting
  Activity from Spelling Choice Menu/Practice Vocab Words
  Fluency “Henry and Mudge” (timed for 1 minute/parent initial)
  Weekly Focus Page: Adjectives
  Math worksheet
Wednesday
Parent Initial (don’t forget to read PLN)
______/   Read for (20) twenty minutes Practice Comparing/Contrasting
  Activity from Spelling Choice Menu/Practice Vocab Words
  Fluency “Henry and Mudge” (timed for 1 minute/parent initial)
  Math worksheet
Thursday
Parent Initial (don’t forget to read PLN)
______/   Read for (20) twenty minutes Practice Comparing/Contrasting
  Study Spelling Words-test tomorrow
  Math worksheet
  Practice Math Facts- Soaring through Math Facts tomorrow
Spelling Words
Skills: long e, o, u / Text Talk Vocabulary
Students will not be tested on these words but are challenged to use them correctly as much as possible (see Vocab Challenge sheet sent home Mondays, due Fridays)
List A / List B / 1.  peered: to look at something very carefully because it can be hard to see.
2.  shunned: when something is shunned, people purposefully stay away from it.
3.  exotic: if something is exotic, it means that it is very unusual and interesting, perhaps because it comes from far away.
4.  gossiped: when you gossip, you are talking about other people who are not around.
5.  constantly: when you do something constantly, that means you do it over and over without changing.
6.  simplicity: If you live with simplicity, your life is plain and without any luxuries such as fancy clothes or expensive gadgets.
bone / drove
robe / huge
use / close
these / hope
rope / those
note / truly
cute / wrote
close / stove
hope / usually
those / rule
one* / solution
goes* / complete