Week of September 3rd

Grammar: This week focus will be on irregular plural nouns. Some irregular nouns take on the plural form by first changing the last letter of the word before adding “s.” Words that end in “f” are a good example of this case. To make such a word plural, you change the “f” to “ve” and add an “s. Irregular nouns made plural by changing vowels, changing the word, or adding a different ending: More than one man = men. Certain other nouns have the same plural form as singular form. A large number of animals happen to follow this rule. For example:Deer is "deer" whether singular or plural.

Spelling: We will be working on two-syllable compound cvc words this week. Compound words are made up of two or more smaller words that are combined to make a new word with its own meaning. The smaller words that form a compound word are like puzzle pieces you fit together to create a new bigger picture. Take the words milk and shake. If we fit these pieces together, we get the compound word milkshake.You can make up nonsense words too. Give your student phrases and sentences to practice. You say the sentence, have the student repeat, then pound their hand for each word they hear as they repeat with you again, then have them write. Check for capital at the beginning of the sentence, stretch the words, space the words, and punctuation at the end. Green Words: upset, sunfish, whiplash, pigpen, bobcat, dishpan, sunset, within, cannot. Nonsense Words: suncat, fishset, fitmix, funpin, pentin, chinpit, netpan, tagnet, runtip.

Red Words: come, what, for, they, saw

Reading: We will focus this week on analyzing characters in a story. Character analysis is when you evaluate a character's traits, their role in the story, and the conflicts they experience.When analyzing, you will want to think critically, ask questions, and draw conclusions about the character by looking at those three areas.

Writing: This 9 weeks we will focus on narrative writing. We will begin a time when we were afraid narrative piece this week and continue working on 6+1 trait writing skills.

Math: We will learn how to solve one step word problems in addition and subtraction this week. We will talk about expectations and steps to solving word problems.

Social Studies: We will continue our focus on locating and comparing the regions and rivers of Georgia. The state of Georgia extends from the Atlantic Ocean into the Blue Ridge Mountains. The state is divided into five regions based on its physical geography. The regions are the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont Region, the Blue Ridge Region, the Valley and Ridge Region, and the Appalachian Plateau.

Important Dates:

September 3: No School/Labor Day

September 5: Progress Reports Go Home

September 12: Picture Day

September 19: Spirit Wear/Fresh Fruit Day

September 24-28 Fall Break/No School