Week of April 24th-28th
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 words with prefixes.. 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: fair, unfair, happy, unhappy, load, unload, fold, unfold, afraid, unafraid, likely, unlikely
High Frequency words: feet, mother, own, really, saw, stop, try
Grammar: This week we will be working on context clues. Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may follow in a preceding sentence.
Reading: We will continue focusing os 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: This week will be working on making arrays. An arrangement of objects, pictures, or numbers in columns and rows is called an array. Arrays are useful representations of multiplication concepts. This array has 4 rows and 3 columns. It can also be described as a 4 by 3 array.
Science: We will continue the 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.