Week of January 20th
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 working this week on both adverbs and adjectives. 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. An adjective describes a noun.
Phonics: We will be working on ai vs. ay rule this week. Both ai and ay have the long a sound. Ai is used in the middle of the word like rain, pail, and train. Ay is used at the end of a word like play, day, and May. Red words for the week are: world, most, almost, move. 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 fables this week in class. A fable is a story that usually uses animals to teach a valuable life lesson, a moral. This story is typically short and states its moral at the very end. The Tortoise and the Hare, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, and The Ant and the Grasshopper are just a few of Aesop's notable fables.
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 be working on counting money using quarters and dollars. Please practice identifying and counting coins and dollars at home.
*Timed addition and subtraction test are normally given on Wednesdays.
Social Studies: This week will be learning about Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was an African American professional baseball player who broke Major Leagues Baseball's infamous “color barrier” when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.