Week of March 19th

Grammar: Our focus will be 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.

Spelling: Spelling this week will focus on Comparatives. Here is the regular list: rounder, smoother, lighter, funniest, earliest, prettiest, bigger, sadder, hottest. The high frequency words are 2nd grade words that need to be spelled correctly when writing. They are: animal, both, talk, those, thought, walk. Some students have a modified list: rounder, smoother, lighter, higher, bigger, sadder, hottest. The sight words they should practice walk, those, animal.

Reading: We will focus on Cause and Effect and Making Connections. A cause-effect relationship is a relationship in which one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect). Example of Cause and Effect: Cause-The girl didn't do her homework. Effect-She had to work on it during recess.

Writing: This 9 weeks we will be working all three genres of writing: Narrative, Opinion, and Informational.

Math: We will working on arrays this week. Arrays are useful models for multiplication and repeated addition. An array is formed by arranging a set of objects into rows and columns.

Science: We will be working on Life Cycles this week. We will be learning about Life Cycles of Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds.

Important Dates:

March 19th-23rd-Bookfair

March 20th- Field Trip to Safety Village

March 21st-Davis Dash

March 22nd-Night of the Arts

March 26th- Career Week