Weekly Curriculum:

Essential Question: Why do people immigrate to new places? 

Current Stories: The Castle on Hester Street

                                        "Next Stop, America "

Spelling Words:       heel, week, creek, free, green

                                          street, freeze, seal, weak, bean  

                                          speaks, team, clean, cream, field

        Review Words:    tight, tied, cute

Challenge Words: sixteen, peanut

Vocabulary:                                                                                                                                       

                             arrived - got to where you were going

                             immigrated - to have come to a new country to live

                             inspected - looked at something closely                                                                                                               

                                                             and carefully

                             moment - a very short amount of time

                             opportunity - a chance for good things to happen

                             photographs - pictures taken with a camera

                             valuabe - worth a lot of money,

                                                      or means a lot to someone

                             whispered - spoken in a very quiet voice

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