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Kelly Young

901-756-2330
youngkd@scsk12.org

Mrs. Youngs Class News


January 6-16, 2015

A Note from Mrs. Young:


*Welcome Back and Happy New Year! I hope you and
your family had a wonderful Winter Break!
*January

19th-

Martin Luther King Day (no school)

Social Studies:
Chapter

4, Lesson 1- The States

at War

Spelling Test
We will have a spelling test
NEXT Friday, covering the
words on page 245.

Standing Homework:
Your child has homework each week that will not
be written in their agenda book. It never changes.
*Read for at least 20 minutes each night
*Review all graded papers on Tuesdays and discuss any
missed items
*Study Spelling words as needed
*Study for Spelling or Grammar Quiz on Thursdays

Grammar Skills
(Next Quiz THIS Friday, 1/9)
These skills are part of our Daily Language work,
and grammar quizzes repeat these skills each week.
These are the main skills covered week after week.
Studying these will improve your childs
performance on Grammar Quizzes.

*Capitalization rules
*Types of sentences
*Common/proper nouns
*parts of speech
*parts of a friendly letter
*context clues
*verb tense
*contractions
*rhyming words

Reading:
Summarizing
Nonfiction

Text

Reading- Social Studies

Writing:
*Nonfiction Writing- Finish Road Map to
the Civil War, Chapter 4, Lesson 1
organizer

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