Edited for 2023-2024 School Year!
This is an ongoing class that students can subscribe to and attend as much as desired.  It will be offered every Monday and Wednesday for the entire school year (September - June) and is divided into a Fall and a Spring class listing.  The class will give students the opportunity to meet with other students and have meaningful interaction with them while practicing basic beginning phonics, reading and language arts skills taught in 4th 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 Q stories and work our way through Level T by the end of the school year. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in 4th Grade and make some new friends!
General format of each class will be as follows:


Week of Oct 16
1. Phonics:  short o and short u words
2. Stories for the week:   Olivia Meets Eleanor
3. Reading skills:  Written Response-If you had a time machine and could visit anyone, who would it be?
4. Spelling/Sight words: another, colony, comedy, comforting, company, compromise, concentrate, 
                                           constantly, deposit, discover, disgusting
5.  Grammar:  Latin root "rupt" means break 
6.  Reading Vocabulary: journalist, biography, ceremonies, kresearch, advocate, President

Week of Oct 23 
1. Phonics:  short o and short u words
2. Stories for the week:  Flying to Victory
3. Reading skills:  Written Response-Why can a plane fly but not a brick?
4. Spelling/Sight words: honesty, interrupt, operate, policy, politics, probably, property, substitute, tolerate
5.  Grammar: analogies
6.  Reading Vocabulary: thrust, gravity, aerodynamic, glider, genius, airplane

Week of Oct 30
1. Phonics - short i words
2. Stories for the week: Rosa Parks Takes a Stand
3. Reading Skills: Reading Response - What would you do if you witnessed someone being treated unfairly?
4. Spelling/Sight words: abyss, antonym, bicycle, crypt, cryptic, crystal, cylinder, Egypt, gymnast, gypsy
5.  Grammar:  Greek root "onym" and Latin root "nom" mean name
6.  Reading Vocabulary:  courage, seamstress, discrimination, justice, arrested, segregation

Week of Nov 6
1. Phonics - short i words
2. Stories for the week:  Easing Emma
3. Reading skills:  Reading Response-What are some ways that you can help yourself if you are anxious?
4. Spelling/Sight words: mystery, myth, nymph, rhuthm, syllable, symbol, symptom, sync, synonym, system
5.  Grammar: Answering questions in complete sentence by turning question around to create statement.
6.  Reading Vocabulary: anxiety, companion, presentation, nervous, obedience, emotional

Week of Nov 13
1. Phonics - long vowels
2. Stories for the week: Velocity Viper
3. Reading skills:  Reading Response-Do you like to ride rollercoasters? Do you have a favorite one?
4. Spelling/Sight words: absolute, beautiful, communicate, computer, container, diagnose, evening, isolated, jewelry, juvenile
5.  Grammar: prefix com- 
6.  Reading Vocabulary: viper, velocity, accdleration, loop, clothoid, swallowed

Week of Nov 20
1. Phonics: Long vowels
2. Stories for the week: Crater of Diamonds and Other Things
3. Reading skills:  Reading Response - What would you rather find, a diamond or an arrowhead? 
4. Spelling/Sight words: motivate, museum, neighborhood, pineapple, potato, relationship, tomato, tornado, vitamin, volcano
5.  Grammar: Using context clues to determine meaning
6.  Reading Vocabulary: elegant, pressures, arrowhead, mining, excavate, diamonds

Week of Nov 27
1. Phonics: -ine ending
2. Stories for the week: A Perfect Gift for Grandpa
3. Reading skills:  Reading Response- Why do you think Grandpa wants to play cribbage with Ian? What has been the best gift you have given your Grandpa?
4. Spelling/Sight words: determine, discipline, doctrine, engine, examine, famine, feminine, gasoline, ginuine, heroine
5.  Grammar: Latin root - aqua and Greek root - hydra both mean water
6.  Reading Vocabulary: cribbage, squirming, inappropriate, scrabble, hyperbole, contagious


Week of Dec 4
1. Phonics: -ine endings
2. Stories for the week: The Three Branches of the Treehouse Society
3. Reading skills: Reading Response- Imagine you were part of Congress-what laws would you make?
4. Spelling/Sight words: imagine, intestines, machine, magazine, marine, masculine, medicine, ravine, routine, saline
5.  Grammar: Figure of Speech - alliteration
6.  Reading Vocabulary: society, executive, constitution, judicial, congress, legislative

Week of Dec 11
1. Phonics: -ice, -ile, -ite endings
2. Stories for the week: Telephones, Bananas and a Grand Exhibition
3. Reading skills:  Reading Response - Which exhibit would have been most interesting to you? Why?
4. Spelling/Sight words: accomplice, apprentice, cowardice, definite, exquisite, favorite, fertile, fragile, granite, hostile
5.  Grammar: Latin root "fin" means limit or end
6.  Reading Vocabulary: exhibition, cacophony, contraptions, bushel, centennial, megaphone

Week of Dec 18
1. Phonics:  -ice, -ile, -ite endings
2. Stories for the week: Sawyer and the Talking Rabbit
3. Reading skills:  Reading Response - What happens next after Sawyer discovers the pawprints in the snow?
4. Spelling/Sight words:  hypocrite, infinite, injustice, malpractice, missile,mobile, opposite, prejudice, solstice, sterile
5.  Grammar: synonym and antonym
6.  Reading Vocabulary: barbaric, intervened, vegetarianism, dietary, emerged, conversation