IMPORTANT DATES:

• Monday, September 4th – Labor Day

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• Please continue to sign your child’s planner each night!
• We will have a grammar test on Friday. (Noun, verbs, adjectives, capitalization, and punctuation)
• There will also be a High Frequency word spelling test this week (3.2.A.vii) . These are words each student should be able to decode and spell in context and on its own. (See list under Reading section)

Reading –

3.8A infer the theme of a work, distinguishing these from topic

3.8D explain the influence of the setting on the plot

Story vocabulary – unfamiliar, barrel, bummer, allowance, silently, reduced, drizzle, protested, redemption center, breathlessly

academic vocabulary: fiction, genre, plot, setting, characters, theme (author’s message)

HFW: about, bring, even, has, live, only, say, there, wash, after

Writing –

3.11A plan first draft by selecting a genre for topic, purpose, and audience

We will take a grade over our written response to The Can Man.

Social Studies – We will be learning about the White Oak Infrastructure. (3.2A, 3.14B, 3.14C, 3.15A, 3.15D, 3.15E)