Week of January 28th
- Kenzie Winther
- Jan 24, 2019
- 2 min read
Important Dates:
January 30th-Spirit Wear/Fresh Fruit
February 1st-Neon Dance
February 4th-15th-Make Kindness Cool
February 18th-22nd-Winter Break
Grammar: We will be working on producing a sentences this week. A complete sentence has a subject and a predicate. We will produce, expand, and rearrange sentences throughout the week.
Spelling: We will be working on r-controlled words this week with just, ir, & ur. When a vowel is followed by the letter R, the sound of the vowel changes. You can practice at home by giving 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: ir: dirt, bird, girl, shirt, third. ur: turn, burst, curb, hurt, church. Red Words: wash, was, should, which, they
Reading: We will be working on identifying the central message, lesson, moral, and point of view of a story this week. We will compare and contrast different fairy tales as well.
Writing: This week we will begin Opinion Writing. We will be working on a piece called 'Salty or Sweet'. They will try salty and sweet foods and decide which one they like better and write about it.
Math: This week we will working on solving word problems with money. Continue practicing recognizing coin, adding coin, and including dollars as well.
Social Studies: We will finish up Jackie Robinson this week and begin Juliette Gordon Low. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927) founded Girl Scouts of the USA, an organization that today serves millions of girl members and alumnae, and reflects the arc of her remarkable life.
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