Week of September 18-22

Grammar: This week's focus will be finishing up irregular nouns and starting collective nouns. Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people or things. Words like group, herd, and array are collective noun examples

Spelling: Spelling this week will focus on Long i digraph syllable patterns. A digraph is two letters that spell one sound. Digraphs that spell consonant sounds include the letter pairs sh, ch, th, wh, ck, ph, ng. Digraphs that spell vowel sounds include the letter pairs ai, ay, ee, ea, ie, ei, oo, ou. ow, oe, oo, ue, ey, ay, oy, oi, au, aw. Here is the regular word list: bright, pie, sigh, high, flight, lie, brightly, lightning, tighten. The high frequency words are 2nd grade words that need to be spelled correctly when writing. They are: always, even, idea, later, still, took, went. Some students have a modified list: pie, sigh, tie, high, lie, die, fie, migh. The sight words they should practice are: saw, what, they.

Reading: We will be learning how characters in a story help us to better understand the story and how to analyze a character. Also, we will continue learning to read for information.

Writing: We will use the six traits of writing in our personal narrative this 9 weeks. A personal narrative is an experience usually told in first person; its content is nontraditional. Personal refers to a story from your life or your own experiences.

Math: This week we will be working on how to solve one step word problems. Some of the word problems will have unknowns. Students will learn to use a 4 square model to answer word problems (picture, number sentence, strategy, and answer).

Science: Our focus this week will be on the 3 states of matter. Matter can exist in one of three main states: solid, liquid, or gas. Solid matter is composed of tightly packed particles. A solid will retain its shape; the particles are not free to move around. Liquid matter is made of more loosely packed particles. It will take the shape of its container. Particles can move about within a liquid, but they are packed densely enough that volume is maintained. Gaseous matter is composed of particles packed so loosely that it has neither a defined shape nor a defined volume. A gas can be compressed.

Important Dates for September & October:

September 19-Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night

September 21-Power of Peace Day

September 25-29 Fall Break/No School

October 4-Walk to School Day/Field trip to Bartow History Museum

October 5- Picture Day

October 6-Fall Festival/End of 1st quarter

October 12- Early Release Day

October 16-20- Conference Week/Early Release Day/Red Ribbon Day