Week 12 April 19, 2010

This week...

This week we are going to learn about how to identify the main idea of a story. The main idea of a story is what the story is trying to tell us.

For example:

Mr. Tim is 23 years old. Mr. Tim is tall, but not as tall as Mr.
Sean. Mr. Tim has blue eyes and brown hair. He has a beard and very
short hair.

The main idea of this paragraph is "Mr. Tim's appearance (what he looks like). Being able to identify what the main idea is of a story will help understand the story and what the author (the person who wrote the story) is trying to say.

We will have a vocabulary test this week. We have 10 new words and the test will consist of spelling and being able to use the words in a sentence.

Vocabulary:

• among - Mr. Tim is among one of the best teachers in our school.
• grow - If we water the plant it will grow.
• enormous - That tree is enormous.
• stretch - The roots of a tree stretch very far underground.
• important - Doing your homework is very important.
• travel - I like to travel all over the world.
• mountain - That mountain is very tall.
• possible - Is it possible to get our homework Mr. Tim?
• distance - It is a very long distance from America to Palestine.
• deep - The ocean is very deep.