Week of April 17th-21st

We hope everyone had a good Spring Break!!!

Upcoming Dates:

April 19th-28th: Testing for 3rd-5th Grade

April 21st: Family Fun Night/PTA Meeting

April 24th: Field Trip!!

April 25th: Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night

Important Reminders:

-If you have any dried up markers or caps, please send them in with your child. We send those off to be recycled.

Phonics: This week we will be looking at the word ending -ly. We will be focusing on them in spelling as well as reading to discuss how they change the meaning of words.

Spelling words for the week: close,closely, friend, friendly, real, really, gloomy, gloomily, happy, happily, angry, angrily, quiet, quietly, safe, safely, luck, luckily

High Frequency words: off, side, saw, changed

Grammar: This week continue to work on irregular past tense verbs. We will be learning how some verbs change to new words and some just change their ending. For example, take-took or feel-felt. Practice using verbs in past tense at home.

Reading: We will review main idea and details this week. At times we also have to find the main idea of different paragraphs in stories as well. Discuss finding the main idea when reading together.

Writing: This nine weeks will be reviewing narrative, informational, and persuasive genres in our writing. The students will also be working on a writing portfolio to go with them to 3rd grade with all three writing pieces in it. We will be wrapping up our modeling of the three genres, and moving on to independent writing for a grade.

Math: We will be continue to partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Then, we will begin even and odd numbers. This is the beginning steps to multiplication!

Science: We are beginning a long unit of life cycles! This is fun because we get to explore animal and plant life cycles. For the next two weeks we will study the life cycles of amphibians, mammals, insects, and birds.