Week of October 2-6

Grammar: This week's focus will be finishing up 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 r-Controlled a syllable patterns. R-controlled a syllable is a type of syllable that changes the way a vowel sounds. It’s called an r-controlled syllable because the r controls the vowel sound. It is important to learn about r-controlled syllables because many words contain these sounds. Being able to recognize and read r-controlled syllables will allow you to read many more words. Here is the regular word list: smart, scar, shark, start, star, spark, market, garlic, party. The high frequency words are 2nd grade words that need to be spelled correctly when writing. They are: away, idea, left, near, play, until. Some students have a modified list: shark, dark, star, arm, park, farm. The sight words they should practice are: away, left, high.

Reading: We will be finishing up on how characters in a story help us to better understand the story and how to analyze a character. We will be finish learning to read for information as well.

Writing: We will finish up this 9 weeks with a personal narrative personally written by your child. We have worked hard by modeling how to write a personal narrative and concentrating on capitalization and punctuation these past 8 weeks. We are excited to see what they have learned and to read their writing piece.

Math: We will use what we have learned on how to solve a one step word problem and begin to learn one step word problems that contain money. Students have learned this past week how to use a 4 square model to answer word problems (picture, number sentence, strategy, and answer).

Science: We will move our focus from 3 states of matter to how matter changes. Physical changes are changes in the way matter looks. Changes in size and shape, like the changes in the cut pieces of paper are physical changes. Physical changes are changes in the size, shape, state, or appearance of matter. Another kind of physical change happens when matter changes from one state to another state. When water freezes and makes ice, it is still water. It has only changed its state of matter from a liquid to a solid. It has changed its appearance and shape, but it is still water. You can change the ice back into water by letting it melt. Matter looks different when it changes states, but it stays the same kind of matter. We will be doing some exciting experiments to see how matter can change.

Important Dates for October:

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