During the course of the year we will cover the district's student learning objectives. Please click the link and view pages 45-51. The revised Alaska state standards are here.
The students will explore a variety of writing strategies on a daily basis, including structured and creative writing.
Reading will be addressed through a variety of fun and engaging activities including whole class, small group, and individual opportunities.
We will cover lesson 9 in Journeys. The topic is Island Ecosystems. The stories are “Kensuke’s Kingdom” and “Exploring Islands.” The main grammar lesson is on conjunctions.
Current Project
We will begin the second quarter Super Hero Project. The students will brainstorm ideas for their super powers and story. Please look at the quarter-long timeframe.
The current week's spelling words are happening, limited, forgetting, equaled, fitting, reasoning, labored, permitting, scrapped, tutoring, admitted, honored, skidding, pardoned, modeling, preferred, scarred, favored, glistening, and shuddered. The challenge words are omitted, merited, tapered, equipped, and recurring. The high frequency words are again, brother, door, happen, hundred, jump, paper, remain, some, was.
We have Spelling pre-quizzes on Mondays and graded quizzes on Thursdays.
The students have three different spelling lists, depending on their skills. We have Spelling pre-quizzes on Mondays and graded quizzes on Thursdays. Please look for the “Challenge” and “High Frequency” spelling alternative word lists. They are located in the Journeys lessons link, at the bottom left. Here is a list of the 1200 most common High frequency words. These words encompass over 89% of everyday writing.