Month: January 2017

Because of Winn-Dixie – A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America’s beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis and an excerpt of Kate DiCamillo’s newest novel, Raymie Nightingale.

We’ll be covering about 5 chapters per week and completing a quiz each Friday.

Some of the objectives that we will be covering while reading are:

• Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to text
• Identify and discuss book themes, characters, plots, and settings
• Connect their experiences with those of the author and/or with characters from the books
• Support predictions, interpretations, conclusions, etc. with examples from text
• Practice key reading skills and strategies (cause-and-effect, problem/solution, compare-and-contrast, summarizing, etc.)
• Monitor their own comprehension

Today we starting our class novel – Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Before we started reading it though, we had some group discussions on some of the disabilities or illnesses that people may face. Because of Winn-Dixie addresses a few physical and mental challenges that some people face. I truly love this book and I know the class will as well. Remember to ask your child about what we have read and discussed in the classroom.

English: – Identify an adjective that follows the word it describes and a form of the verb ‘be’, and identify the noun being described.

– Choose correct articles.

Spelling: – Study and prepare for spelling test this Friday.

1. Skidded                   6.Exception                          11. Distracted
2. Suffering                 7. Memorization                   12. Effect
3. Judge                       8. Retriever                            13. Potluck
4. Produce                   9. Fortunate                           14. Sermon              
5. Missionary            10. Congregation                     15. Constellations

Math: – Decide is an answer to a problem is reasonable.

– Estimate products by rounding.

– Multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number.

Science: – Describe the water cycle.

– Understand how precipitation forms.

– Demonstrate how to extract fresh water from salt water.

Social Studies: – Discover the different cultures that help to influence us.

Bible: – Study Bible verse for Friday. Parents, please encourage your child to study their Bible verse every week. These do impact their Bible grades.

– Read and respond to scriptural evidence of God’s eternal nature.

– Demonstrate understanding of God’s presence with them personally.

Sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth. Psalm 96:1