Homework for week 5/6 - 5/10/2024

Our Journeys story of the week is “Yeh Shen.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (possessive nouns) for lesson 28 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, May  10th.

We’ll be finishing up chapter 8 in Sadlier Math (3-digit addition) and will test over the chapter on Friday, May 10th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, May 6th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 5/6. This will be the last week for your child to check out an RQ book, so please make sure all library books are returned.

Spelling Words

1. cow
2. house
3. town
4. shout
5. down
6. mouse
7. found
8. loud
9. brown
10. ground
11. pound
12. flower
13. out
14. now
15. towel
16. pounce

High Frequency Words 

1. above
2. enough
3. falling
4. happened
5. lived
6. loved
7. should
8. sorry
9. want
10. while

Homework for week 4/29 - 5/3/2024

Our Journeys story of the week is “The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (adverbs) for lesson 27 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, May 3rd.

We’ll be spending the next two weeks learning about 3-digit addition in Sadlier Math. 

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, April 29th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 4/29.

Spelling Words

1. took
2. books
3. foot
4. hoof
5. cook
6. nook
7. hood
8. wood
9. stood
10. shook
11. crook
12. cookbook
13. look
14. good
15. crooked
16. bookcase

High Frequency Words 

1. buy
2. called
3. even
4. father
5. maybe
6. outside
7. tomorrow
8. town
9. water
10. where

Homework for week 4/22 - 4/26/2024

 Our Journeys story of the week is “The Mysterious Tadpole.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (contractions) for lesson 26 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 26th.

The test over chapter 7 (place value to 1000) in Sadlier Math will be on Friday, April 26th. Chapter review will come home Thursday afternoon, if you’d like to review with your child before the test.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, April 22nd. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 4/22.

Spelling Words

1. root
2. crew
3. spoon
4. few
5. bloom
6. grew
7. room
8. you
9. stew
10. boost
11. scoop
12. flew
13. zoo
14. noon
15. shampoo
16. balloon

High Frequency Words 

1. again
2. ago
3. alone
4. don’t
5. every
6. follow
7. goes
8. head
9. now
10. won’t

Homework for week 4/8 - 4/12/2024

Our Journeys story of the week is “From Seed to Plant.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill for lesson 25 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 12th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, April 8th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 4/8.

Spelling Words

1. tall
2. saw
3. dog
4. draw
5. call
6. fall
7. soft
8. paw
9. ball
10. yawn
11. log
12. small
13. all
14. walk
15. awful
16. wallpaper

High Frequency Words 

1. ball
2. done
3. hear
4. learn
5. leaves
6. only
7. our
8. through
9. we’re
10. young

Homework for weeks 3/25 - 3/27 and 4/2 - 4/5

Our Journeys story of the week is “Half-Chicken.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Our spelling words are base words plus suffixes un- and re-. We also have 2 review words. The additional phonics skill for this lesson is silent consonants in words. 

Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (irregular action verbs) for lesson 24 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 5th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, March 25th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 3/25. Because of Easter break, the next RQ testing deadline will be Monday, April 8th.

Spelling Words

1. unhappy
2. retell
3. untangle
4. unkind
5. repaint
6. refill
7. unlike
8. remake
9. unpack
10. reread
11. unlock
12. replay
13. read
14. happy
15. rewrite
16. overheard

High Frequency Words 

1. away
2. brothers
3. brown
4. there
5. surprised
6. earth
7. without
8. here
9. learning
10. began

Homework for week 3/18 - 3/22/2024

Our Journeys story of the week is “The Goat in the Rug.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Our spelling words are base words plus endings -y, -ly, and -ful. We also have 2 review words with endings -ed and -ing. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (irregular verbs) for lesson 23 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 22nd.

ReadnQuiz: Because of the Book Fair, students were unable to check out library books the week before Spring break, so there is no RQ requirement for March 18th. There are several students with overdue library books, so please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school Monday, 3/18, to avoid overdue/replacement fees.

Spelling Words

1. helpful
2. sadly
3. hopeful
4. thankful
5. slowly
6. wishful
7. kindly
8. useful
9. safely
10. painful
11. mouthful
12. weakly
13. jumped
14. saying
15. quickly
16. wonderful

High Frequency Words 

1. coming
2. down
3. four
4. give
5. great
6. idea
7. knew
8. large
9. though
10. write

Homework for week 3/4 - 3/8/2024

 Our Journeys story of the week is “Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Our spelling words are homophones, and correct spelling may be challenging. Please remind your child to pay attention to context clues when figuring out the correct spelling (we’ve been working on this skill in class). Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (more about adjectives) for lesson 22 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 8th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, March 4th. All library books need to be returned by 3/4.

Spelling Words

1. meet
2. meat
3. week
4. weak
5. mane
6. main
7. tail
8. tale
9. be
10. bee
11. too
12. two
13. sea
14. see
15. threw
16. through

High Frequency Words 

1. boy
2. does
3. everyone
4. field
5. floor
6. found
7. into
8. their
9. toward
10. what’s