Week of January 13th

Important Dates:

January 20th-MLK Jr. Holiday/No School

January 22nd-Talent Show Auditions

January 28th-2nd Grade Field Trip to Fire Safety Village

January 29th-Spirit Wear Wednesday

January 31st-80's Foundation Dance

Grammar: We will be learning about adverbs this week. An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb. To put it another way, an adverb describes actions, and it describes other descriptive words.

Phonics: We will be working on the drop e rule this week. We usually drop the 'e' at the end of words when adding an ending that begins with a vowel suffix (e.g. -ing, -ed, -er, -able, -ous, ) write + ing = writing hope + ed = hoped excite + able = excitable. Red words for the week are: put, half, water, work. Please practice red words at home. Red words do not follow learned patterns or rules. Therefore it is important to memorize how to spell them. We do not sound these words out. We identify them by letter names. Example: was w-a-s not /w/ /u/ /z/. Practice at home writing the words in fun ways, tracing them, or even jumping them out.

*Phonics assessments are on Thursday. The new phonics rule is introduced on Friday.

Reading: We will be working on folktales this week in class. A folktale is an old story that's been told again and again, often for generations. Some well known folktales are Cinderella, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and Little Red Riding Hood. We will identify the central message, lesson, moral, and point of view of a story in folktales.

Writing: This 9 weeks we will be working on opinion writing. An opinion is a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Math: We will working on adding up to 4-2 digit numbers this week. We will review the partial sums strategy and teach the students how to add the digits using this strategy.

*Timed addition and subtraction test are normally given on Wednesdays.

Social Studies: This week will be learning about civil rights and discussing who is Martin Luther King Jr. and why he is important.