Week of February 25th

Important Dates:

February 18-22-Winter Break/No School

February 25-March 8- Read Across America/Tune Out TV

March 4-Davis Dash Kick Off

March 11-15-Career Week

March 13-Early Release

March 14-Picture Day

March 15-Davis Dash

March 15-End of 9 Weeks

Grammar: We will continue working on rearranging sentences this week. We will take a complete sentence and learn to rearrange it and add interesting words.

Spelling: We will be working on oi & oy words. oi is usually found within a word. oy is usually found at the end of a syllable . 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: oi: oil, point, voice, foil, joint, spoil. oy: toy, joy, loyal, hoist, void, enjoy. Red Words: won't, want, over, sure, could

Reading: We will continue learning about point of view this week. First-Person: The narrator tells “I” or “my” story. Second-Person: The narrator tells “you” or “your” story, usually used for instructions. Third-Person Objective: The narrator tells “his” or “her” story and does not reveal any character's thoughts or feelings.

Writing: We will continue Opinion Writing for this 9 weeks. Students will chose their favorite season and write their opinion about the season.

Math: This week we will working adding and subtracting three digit numbers. We will use our strategies that we have learned this year to help us solve the problems (base ten, partial sums, chunking, and decomposing).

Social Studies: We will be learning about what makes day and night and how the sun moves and shadows change.