ELA Kitchen Update

Skills Block:  September 10-14

This week in your ELA kitchen, you will continue studying basic sentence structure.  In addition to looking for fragments and sentences, though, we will also start looking for run-on sentences.  These are sentences that NEVER SEEM TO STOP.  They're actually more like STRINGS of sentences, tied together like beads on a necklace with conjunctions and connecting words (for example:  and, then, but, so...).  

To make sure you're ready for a skills snapshot on fragments, be sure to get some extra practice with this activity.  

We will also continue to review prefixes you learned in the 3rd grade.  This week, we're refreshing our memories on mis- and dis-.  While you're reading this week, be sure to look for words that begin with any of the prefixes we've discussed so far this year:  pre-, un-, re-, non-, mis-, and dis-.  You can review all of those prefixes here.  

Our vocabulary words for this week are boost, barrier, recommend  and gratitude.  Check them out with these flashcards.



Finally, we'll study when we make nouns plural by adding -es instead of just -s.  Students, do you know the rule for when to add -es instead of -s to the end of a word to make it plural?  Leave a comment telling us what you think!