Hi grade four & five and welcome to our second week of home learning. I miss seeing you all and can’t wait until we are back in the classroom together again. You will notice that this week is structured very similarly to last week. Once again, you will find attached documents with everything you will need for this week of home learning. Like last week, students are expected to complete three hours of Language Arts per week. As always if you have any questions, want additional resources, or are unsure of anything, please do not hesitate to reach out to me via my work email and I will be happy to help in any way.

Each day of Language Arts will consist of:

Daily Bell Ringer – Once again, students will find attached (new) daily bell ringer writing prompts and sheets to complete them (they can also be completed on any paper they have available). Students are expected to write approximately one paragraph. Each bell ringer should take students approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Read-to-Self - Students should be reading an appropriate book at their level for approximately 15 minutes each day. If they have time to read more, they are encouraged to do so.

Writing Prompt - I have attached new writing prompts for students to complete. They will find three of them for this week. Students are asked to write as much as they possibly can and be creative with the topics given. This should take minimum 20 minutes.

Dreamscape/Squiggle Park/Online Games - I would like you to try three new links this week that you did not use last week. If you have tried all of them and are looking for more, please reach out to me. Reminder that this page of links gives students access to several online games covering topics that are often used in class, particularly with sight words, nouns, verbs, and adjectives for grade 3. Also, please remember that some of these may require making a free account or Flash Player. Students also have access to either Dreamscape or Squiggle Park. For those playing Dreamscape, they must read the questions thoroughly before answering. If they do not know their username or password to either game, please email me and I will get them the information right away. They should be playing one of these for approximately 20 minutes each day.

No Excuse Words – Please access the attached no excuse words list for students to practice while they are at home if you hvae not done so already. There is a new list of words for this week. Remember, there are fun ways to learn and practice spelling (not just memorize). Students can use word searches, word chants, body spelling, writing on windows/whiteboards with whiteboard markers, writing with sidewalk chalk, word unscrambles, word puzzles, etc.