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A Good Week

Its been a good week. Sorry the blog has not been updated more but it has also been very busy.

We did extensive reading practice with our new reading game, we made some headway into Spin F, and we did a lot of speaking practice. Next week the fourth issue of the newspaper should be ready.

Today there is a singing fight between, third, fourth and fifth grades. It should be fun.

This Week in Mr. Sean's Best Cheetah's Class

We are going to be starting Spin F. We completed Spin E. We will also be doing a lot of reading. (no surprise)

Some students will be finishing Fudge-a-Mania and most of the students will be working in book 2.2. This week's words all come from those stories. learn the spelling and learn the meanings.

We will be reading:

One Dark Night
Frogs
Red White and Blue
Cowboys

1. Pond - a small body of water. Frogs live in a pond.
2. Breeze - a soft wind
3. Clump - A group where the parts are touching each other
4. Warmth - Heat. When you stand in the Sun you feel warmth.
5. Slippery - Wet and hard to hold
6. Slimy - Slippery but disgusting too.
7. Protect - To stop something from getting hurt. Your mother protects you
8. Creature- Animal
9. Survive - stay alive
10. Embryo - In the first part of an Animal's life it is an embryo.
11. Yolk - the middle part of an egg
12. Wiggle - Shake
13. Gills - What fish use to breathe
14. Jaw - The bone that holds the teeth
15. Hind - Back
16. Vegetarians - Vegetarians dont eat meat.
17. Shed - To put off. Snakes shed their skin when they grow. You shed your jacket when it gets hot
18. Amphibian - Can live on land or water
19. Whole - In one piece
20. Length - How long something is
21.Lightning - The flash of light that comes sometimes when it is raining hard.
22. Thunder - The loud sound that goes with lightning
23. Stray - An animal with no owner
24. Gently - Softly
25. Bathrobe - What you wear when you get up to go to the bathroom in the morning. It is like a dress

King of the Road

Just a Girl

Some Songs For 4A

The Program I Recommended

Last week I recommended a program to help you with reading on the internet. I downloaded and used it without a problem, as did the parent who recommended it to me, but a student told me that a virus infected his computer from downloading it so if you choose to use it be very careful and make sure your computer is protected.

This Week

This week will be a little busy. As you know Ms. Fatima had to go back to South Africa because her father is sick.

On Thursday we will have a test but it will be a reading test. The only way to study for it is by doing the reading homework.

This is very important

I will not be accepting homework that is a mess. You must do your homework neatly, just like you would in class.

Spelling Test As

There were two parts to last week's spelling test. Spelling the words and knowing their meanings. These are the students who got As

Fares - A/A+
Karma - A
Hassan - A/A+
Malak - A+/A+ (Great Job Malak!)
Hamze - A
Shreem - A+/A
Omar A+/A+ (Great Job Omar!)
Selim - A/A+
Sarah A.G. A+/A+ (Great Job Sarah!)
Amal - A+/A
Na-El - A

Pillow Fight

This is a link to a free program that will put written English on the internet into spoken English. It can be a good way to aid your reading. Try it out but, as always, be careful when you download from the internet.


http://www.naturalreaders.com/free_version.htm

Progress Report

This week has been going well. Tonight's homework is the last story in 2.1 and we start 2.2 tomorrow. We expect to finish that book this year as well.

The top group will be taking a break from chapter books as they finish Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great and working in book 3.1.

Students have been brushing up on homophones (words that sound the same, like to, too, and two) and alphabetical order. Students all know alphabetical order but by drilling it we improve dictionary skills which are necessary because our reading is getting much more difficult

Keep an eye out for mandatory handwriting homework. All students won't have it but some will each night. We will also be working on the Stars Show this week. The Stars Show is the TV show for our class.

This Week's Words

These words are from the last two stories we are doing in book 2.1. You need to know spellings and meanings. They are very hard but if you study a little each day they should not be a problem. We will also work with them in class.

1. Blinking – Going off and on (power, lights)
2. Envelope – The thing you put letters in to mail them
3. Seoul – The capital of Korea
4. Korea – A country in Asia
5. Stamp – What you put on an envelope to pay for it
6. Smudge – When you rub ink from a marker, it smudges.
7. Gentle – Soft and easy. When you pick up a baby, be gentle
8. Pin – The sharp thing you use to put something on the wall
9. Faraway – not close
10. Slave – When one person owns another person. The person who is not free is a slave.
11. Kidnap – To steal a person
12. Saddle – The thing you use to sit on when you ride a horse
13. Neighbor – The person who lives next to you
14. Professor – A person who teaches at a university
15. Crops – Plants you grow for money

This Week's Reading

The Chapter Book Group is going to finish "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great." The group working in the second 2.1 book will finish that book this week. They will start on 2.2.

This week's stories are:

Book 2.1
Dear Juno (page 350)
A Weed is a Flower (page 430)

Book 2.2
The Signmaker's Assistant
A Birthday Present for Tia

There will be homework four days this week so be ready for a lot of work.


The words for this week's test are from the last two stories in 2.1. I will post them later today

This Week's Tests

This week's test had three parts. The first was the spelling words from the blog. The second was identifying adverbs in sentences. The third part was reading.

Each part was graded separetely. Several students got 3 As. More students got 2 and some students got 1. The best test, and the only student who was perfect on all three parts was ..................Omar!!!!!!!!!!!!

Three As
Hassan
Montasser
Amal
Nasser
Selim

Two As
Malak
Shahd
Mohammed Shreem
Saad Titi
Sarah Abu Gosh

One A
Yusuf
Hamza
Nouraldeen
Na-El
Marwan
Fares