This is the second semester of an ongoing class that learners can subscribe to and attend as much as desired. It will be offered every Monday and Wednesday from January through May. The class will give students the opportunity to meet with other students daily and to have meaningful interaction with them while practicing basic beginning phonics, reading and language arts skills taught in 3rd grade. This will be an active class and students will be encouraged to participate and interact with classmates. Having permission to use the leveled reading stories from k5learning.com , this class will begin with Level M stories and work our way through Level P by the end of the school year. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in third grade and make some new friends!
General format of each class will be as follows:

1. Phonics skills:  We will begin class with a quick drill practicing new phonics sounds each week
2. Reading skills:  Practice reading sentences and short paragraphs containing the phonics sounds of the week.  
3. Spelling/Sight words - targeted lists for spelling and word study
4.  Grammar: Third grade grammar rules for capitalization, punctuation, verb tense, subject/verb agreement will be incorporated
5.  Vocabulary:  Target Vocabulary words will be selected from each story
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  one challenge word will be discussed each week

Week of Jan 8
1. Phonics Sounds: -ar ending in grammar
 2. Reading Skills: A Howling Good TIme/A Loaf of Croutons
3. Spelling/Sight words: beggar, cellar, cheddar, collar, dollar, grammar, liar, lunar, molar, nectar, pillar, ploar, solar, stellar, sugar
4.  Grammar: root word "part"
5.  Reading Vocabulary: injuries, preserve, relationship, howl, habitat, binoculars
                                          yeast, directions, ingredients, recipe, croutons, measuring
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  analogy

Week of Jan  15
1. Phonics Sounds: -or in color
2. Reading Skills: Patience/Pet Standoff
4.  Grammar: root word "scope"
5.  Reading Vocabulary: fortune, patience, intersection, pursuit, delivery, binoculars
                                          python, muscled, peaceful, scales, pursuit, agument
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: homophones

Week of Jan 22
1. Phonics Sounds: ou/ow, oi/oy
2. Reading Skills: MIa's Surprise/Lemonade Industries Inc.
3. Spelling/Sight words: counsel, disappoint, drought, fountain, lawyer, loyal, mountain, ointment, 
                                          poison, pronounce, royal, thousand, toilet, towel, vowel
4.  Grammar: Turning question into a statement and add answer.
5.  Reading Vocabulary: mean, knitting, embarrassed, wool, coaxed, daughter
                                         business, lemonade, advertising, finance, drive-thru, production
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: entrepreneur

Week of Jan 29
1. Phonics Sounds:  /aw/ pattern
2. Reading Skills: Not Dreaming About Salad Bowels, The Competitors
3. Spelling/Sight words:  alter, applause, August, author, dissolve, drawer, exhaust, faucet, resolve, 
                                           squad, squander, squash, squat, wallet, walrus
4.  Grammar: synonyms and antonyms
5.  Reading Vocabulary: countries, education, opportunities, cultures, language, immigrants
                                          arguing, competitors, sportsmanship, deked, mockingly, opponents
6.  Weekly Wonder word: deke (hockey term to deceive the opponent)

Week of Feb 5
1. Phonics Sounds:  r-controlled vowels with ar
2. Reading Skills: Detective Sam is on the Case/Kids on the Oregon Trail
3. Spelling/Sight Words:  arbor, armor, carpet, carton, garden, garland, garment, harbor, harness, 
                                            harvest, market, pardon, parlor, scarlet, target
4.  Grammar: analogies
5.  Reading Vocabulary:  alibi, suspect, iterrogate, crime, motive, detective
                                           pride, peoneers, responsibilities, oxen, settlers, belongings
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  emmigrant, immigrant

Week of Feb 12
1. Phonics Sounds: r-controlled vowel vowels with or
2. Reading Skills: The Kindness Project/The Doctor Who Saved London
3. Spelling/Sight words: absorb, afford, coral, correct, dormant, forest, forfeit, formal, moral, normal, 
                                          organ, portrait, resource, snorkel, support
4.  Grammar: Latin root: form (shape)
5.  Reading Vocabulary: deeds, confident, brainstorm, dumb, ideas, messages,
                                          disease, evidence, experiment, theory, cholera, scientific
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: benevolent


Week of Feb 19
1. Phonics Sounds:  r-controlled vowels with ur
2. Reading Skills: Empty Glory/Pleasing Mrs. Kondrath
3. Spelling/Sight words:  burden, curfew, current, cursive, cursor, fury, juror, murmur, plural, purchase, 
                                           purpose, rural, surplus, surround, urban
4.  Grammar: Latin prefixes super- and sur-
5.  Reading Vocabulary: victory, character, generosity, guilt, cheating, tightened
                                          groaning, willpower, professional,pianist, practicing, complicated
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  virtuoso

Week of Feb 26
1. Phonics Sounds: er pattern
2. Reading Skills: Wicked Worries/Don't Count Your Eggs Before They're Laid
3. Spelling/Sight words: concern, conserve, deserve, dessert, fertle, kernel, modern, nervous, observe, 
                                          perfect, person, preserve, reserve, verbal, verdict
4.  Grammar:  Writing sentences from questions
5.  Reading Vocabulary: tense, stomach, overwhelmed, relax, nerve, worrying
                                         course, schedule, expression, coop, research, business
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: exasperation

Week of March 4
1. Phonics Sounds: -ard ending
2. Reading Skills: The Starfruit Tree/Thinking Outside the Box
3. Spelling/Sight words:  awkward, backward, blizzard, coward, custard, forward, hazard, leopard, lizard, 
                                           mustard, orchard, standard, toward, vineyard, wizard
4.  Grammar: prefix fore-
5.  Reading Vocabulary: guinea, confident, challenge, leapt, starfruit, impatient
                                          spirit, magazine, masterpieces, artist, ideas, overlapping
6. Weekly Wonder Word: perspective

Week of March 11
1. Phonics Sounds: /air/ sound with ar, er and ur patterns
2. Reading Skills: Horrible Hiccups/Letting the Wind Do the Work
3. Spelling/Sight words/ berry, bury, cherish, cherry, errand, error, ferry, merit, merry, parents, peril, 
                                           perish, sheriff, sterile, terror
4.  Grammar: prefixes peri- and circum-  from Latin root circ=round
5.  Reading Vocabulary: lungs, hiccupe, diaphragm, cords, reliable, procedure
                                         turbine, generator, appliances,power, windmill, electricity
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: renewable energy

Week of March 18
1. Phonics Sounds: r-controlled vowels with quar, war, jour, wor
2. Reading Skills: May the Best Prankster Win/Pillow Fort Follies
3. Spelling/Sight words:  award, journal, journey, quarrel, quarry, quarter, reward, wardrobe, warning, 
                           port = carry                 warrant, worried, worsen, worship, worthless, worry
4.  Grammar: Latin root
5.  Reading Vocabulary:  prank, saueaky, shampoo, ladle, raisins, alphabet
                                           fortress, newspaper, responsibility, blame, inspiration, constructed
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: bellowed

Week of March 25
1. Phonics Sounds:  double r pattern
2. Reading Skills: The Trouble with Goats/What an Un-sight-ly Mess
3. Spelling/Sight words:  arrow, barrel, borrow, burrow, carrt, carry, corrupt, furrow, marry, mirror, 
                                           narrate, narrow, parrot, sorrow, sorry
4.  Grammar: suffixes -s, -ing, -ing
5.  Reading Vocabulary: goat, adorable, instructions, idea, bleated, innocently
                                          safety, ingredient, instructions, aroma, measure, cupboards
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  careless

Week of April 1
1. Phonics Sounds: -ure ending
2. Reading Skills: Super Bats/Mystery Race Car Driver
3. Spelling/Sight words: creature, figure, fracture, future, injure, measure, moistue, nature, pasure, 
                                          picture, pleasure, tupture, sculpture, texture, treasure
4.  Grammar:  stating opinions
5.  Reading Vocabulary: mosquito, creatures, echolocation, echo, mammals, superpowers
                                         elimination, competitors, conversation, personal, information, responsible
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: nocturnal

Week of April 8
1. Phonics Sounds:  soft c words
2. Reading Skills: Seeing Double/Just Roll with It
3. Spelling/Sight words: accent, accept, access, bracelet, cancel, census, central, circle, circus, citrus, cycle, pencil, succeed, success, succinct
4.  Grammar:  supporting your opinion
5.  Reading Vocabulary:  genes, festival, identical, twins, allergic, fraternal
                                           hobbies, unicycle, skateboard, wobble, trumpet, abandoned
6.  Weekly Wonder Word:  leisure

Week of April 15
1. Phonics Sounds:  soft c endings  
2. Reading Skills: Pony Express/Yarn Bombing
3. Spelling/Sight words: crevice, furnace, grimace, justice, lettuce, malice, necklace, notice, office, 
                                           palace, police, practice, service, surface, terrace
4.  Grammar: using strong descriptive words
5.  Reading Vocabulary: express, mailbag, conditions, terrain, stations, telegraph
                                          duffel, fountain, bombing, yarn, pieced, lipstick
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: communication

Week of April 22
1. Phonics Sounds: hard and soft g words
2. Reading Skills: Life Before the Internet/Magic Behind Cartoons
3. Spelling/Sight words: angel, budget, digest, digit, disguise, fatigue, fidget, gesture, giant, guitar, 
                                          league, margin rigid, urgent, vague
4.  Grammar: using context clues
5.  Reading Vocabulary: elimination, competitors, conversation, personal, information, responsible
                                         flipped, graphics, animation, scene, frames, cartoons
6.  Weekly Wonder Word: technology