Week of May 7th

Grammar: Our focus this week will be on Proper Nouns. A proper noun is a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are always capitalized in English, no matter where they fall in a sentence.

Spelling: Spelling this week will focus on the suffix-less. Here is the regular list: The high frequency words are: priceless, useless, powerless, cloudless, breathless, fearless. 2nd grade words that need to be spelled correctly when writing. They are: does, keep, let, off, paper, those, white. Some students have a modified list: careless, useless, powerless, clouldless, helpless, fearless. The sight words they should practice are: does, keep, let.

Reading: We will focus on Main Idea this week. The main idea is the point of the paragraph. It is the most important thought about the topic. To figure out the main idea, ask yourself this question: What is being said about the person, thing, or idea (the topic)? The author can locate the main idea in different places within a paragraph.

Writing: This 9 weeks we will be working all three genres of writing: Narrative, Opinion, and Informational. At this time we are working on narrative writing.

Math: We will continue working on partitioning shapes this week. We will partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. We will also recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.

Science: We will be finish up the Life Cycle of a Plant this week. The plant starts life as a seed, which germinates and grows into a plant. The mature plant produces flowers, which are fertilizes and produce seeds in a fruit or seedpod. The plant eventually dies, leaving seeds which germinate to produce new plants. Annuals take one year to complete their life cycle.

Important Dates:

May 9th- Author's Tea 8-8:30

May 10th- Field Day-K-4

May 14th- Awards Day

May 15th-Field Trip to Art Barn

May 16th-Volunteer Luncheon

May 18th-Oscar Awards

May 22nd-Class Party-8:30-10:00/Early Release Day

May 23rd-Last Day of School/Early Release