Week of May 5

Hello all and Happy Cinco de Mayo! I hope you are all enjoying a festive weekend with family, friends and, of course, food!

This week I will administer another standardized test in an effort to gauge where we need to focus our attention as we turn to real EOG prep. This should take a couple days. Last week, I looked through the released Reading test to get some vocabulary words that we could focus on for this week. We will not have a test this week on these words but we will use them and practice them in class for the next couple weeks. I may decide to have a test next week on some of them, depending on how our work goes this week. I will let you know in plenty of time. There are many :) If you have a few minutes, go over some of these words with your student, especially the ones with an asterisk, most are review.
Vocab for all groups, for the next 2 weeks:
there, they're, their (many still struggle with these)
to, two, too (and these)
hesitation
symbol *
selection *
tousle
irritated *
fortunate *
assistant *
circulatory *
summarize *
mentioning
represent *
simile *
submission *
outcome *
rejection *
statement *
punctuation *
considered
grammatical *
unfamiliar
illustration *
heaping
insisted
eerie
hideous
impressive
confident
devices
narrator *
humorous *
general *
element (meaning a part of something) *
enchanted enthusiastic
successful *

I feel pretty confident about the vocab this year, but we need to begin to review and sharpen our grasp of many of these words.

A friend of mine sent this to me this week and I loved it! I thought I'd share, please watch!
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ted-talks-education/speaker/rita-pierson/
I also posted a link above!

Progress reports go home this week, please look for them.

Almost forgot: Book report and project are due!!!! The project is a poster based on the information in the non-fiction book your child read!