Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Homework for 5/15 - 5/19

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. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill 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, May 19th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, May17th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school Wednesday.

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

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Homework for week 5/1 - 5/5

 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 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, May 5th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, May 3rd. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school Wednesday.

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

Sunday, April 2, 2023

Homework for weeks 4/3 and 4/11

 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 for lesson 22 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Due to the Easter break, Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 14th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, April 5th.

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 

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Homework for week 3/27 - 3/31

Our Journeys story of the week is “Penguin Chick.” 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 21 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 31st.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, March 29th.

Spelling Words

  1. father
  2. over
  3. under
  4. herd
  5. water
  6. verb
  7. paper
  8. cracker
  9. offer
  10. cover
  11. germ
  12. master
  13. fern 
  14. ever
  15. remember
  16. feather

High Frequency Words 

  1. nothing
  2. move
  3. across
  4. took
  5. house
  6. voice
  7. behind
  8. one
  9. how
  10. out


Saturday, March 18, 2023

Homework for week 3/20 - 3/24

Our Journeys story of the week is “Dex: The Heart of a Hero.” 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 20 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 24th.

Spelling Words

  1. horn
  2. story
  3. fork
  4. score
  5. store
  6. corn
  7. morning
  8. shore
  9. short
  10. born
  11. tore
  12. forget
  13. for
  14. more
  15. report
  16. force

High Frequency Words 

  1. begins
  2. being
  3. flower
  4. ground
  5. I’ve
  6. laugh
  7. ready
  8. stood
  9. tall
  10. very

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, March 22nd.

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Homework for week 3/6 - 3/10

 Our Journeys story of the week is “The Signmaker’s Assistant.” 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 19 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 10th.

Spelling Words

  1. car
  2. dark
  3. arm
  4. star
  5. park
  6. yard
  7. party
  8. hard
  9. farm
  10. start
  11. part
  12. spark
  13. art
  14. jar
  15. carpet
  16. apartment

High Frequency Words 

  1. are
  2. baby
  3. didn’t 
  4. good
  5. I’ll 
  6. is
  7. please
  8. sound
  9. talk
  10. too

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, March 8th

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Homework for week 2/27 - 3/3

Our Journeys story of the week is “My Name is Gabriela.” 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 18 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 3rd.

Spelling Words

  1. happy
  2. pretty
  3. baby
  4. very
  5. puppy
  6. funny
  7. carry
  8. lucky
  9. only
  10. sunny
  11. penny
  12. city
  13. tiny
  14. many
  15. sorry
  16. noisy

High Frequency Words 

  1. always
  2. anything
  3. been
  4. draw
  5. friends
  6. mother
  7. soon
  8. under
  9. watch
  10. words

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, March 1st.