Read – Students should be reading nightly for 15 -45 min. AR goal has been given to every student and should be in their writing duo-tang. Everyone should have read a realistic fiction, an informational text, a mystery and a biography/autobiography/memoir by now and be reading either a classic or a fantasy. Spelling – Students are given new words each Friday and are tested on those words the next Friday. This week they have a sheet of 50 homonyms that they need to be able to spell and use properly. Writing – We are beginning work on a character sketch and students should be working on a venn diagram comparing themselves to the main character in the book they are presently reading.