Mrs. Stauffer
Genre: Realistic Fiction made up characters, settings, and events that could be real sometimes written in first person ( using I, me , we , our, my, us)
Essential question: How are kids around the world different?
Comprehension skill: Compare and Contrast:
To compare is to tell how things or events are alike.
To contrast is to tell how they are different.
Vocabulary strategies similies:
A simile uses the words like Orr as to compare two different things.
To understand a simile, figure out how an author compares one thing to another.
Example like a whale in the sky.
Important
We will have a short week next week, but will have a reading log due back each day. We will resume spelling and vocabulary the week after. Conferences are next week. There are two types: a scheduled 15 minute conference with Mrs. Park and I. the last hour of conferences are reserved for open conferences, which operate like open house. You may check out the work they have been doing in class, chat with the teacher and visit the specials to see how your child is doing!
Spelling
clerk | work |
herd | worse |
first | know |
skirt | wrist |
stir | found |
churn | from |
hurt | today |
burst |
Vocabulary
common- something that is shared or owned by two or more people
costume- clothing you wear to look like something or someone else
customs- ways of acting or events that a group of people have done over and over again
favorite- something that is liked the best
parades- large groups of people, including bands, moving through a public place for a special event
surrounded- something that is closed in on all sides
travels- making a trip somewhere
wonder- curious about something and wanting to know about it