Classroom News

This is a sampling of the skills we've worked on this month:

• spelling patterns: long and short vowels, consonant clusters,
• grammar skills: editing paragraphs, capitalization, punctuation, forming plurals with spelling changes, abbreviations, form of a letter, compound sentences
• reading & language: story elements, main idea, plot, details, problem & solution, compare & contrast, cause & effect, draw conclusions, vocabulary, use context clues to figure out an unknown word, use an dictionary, index and glossary, find information in an encyclopedia, telephone directory, chart
• election news, duties of a president, responsibility
• life cycles