Week of Feb. 3rd.
Important Dates:
February 6th-Variety Show 5:30-7:00
February 10th-14th-Make Kindness Cool/Teacher Appreciation Week
February 17th-21st-Winter Break/No School
February 24th-March 7th-Read Across America/Tune Out TV
February 26th-Spirit Wear Wednesday
Grammar: We will be working on expanding sentences this week by adding adjectives to the sentences. Some students are still struggling with capitalization at the end of the sentence, punctuation at the end, and making sure they have both the subject and the predicate. A good way to practice at home is giving your child sentences using our spelling pattern of the week and going over each sentence to make sure they are including all parts of a sentence.
Phonics: We will be working on oi and oy words. We use both “oi” and “oy” to make the /oi/ sound (think of the words “boy” and “foil”). When that sound comes in the middle of a word, we use “oi.” If it comes at the end of the word, we will use “oy.” Red words for the week are: young, money, during, always. 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 continue identifying the central message, lesson, moral, and point of view of different stories this week. We will also compare and contrast different fairy tales as well.
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: This week we will working on adding three digit numbers with regrouping. We will use our strategies that we have learned this year to help us solve the problems (base ten, partial sums, chunking, and decomposing).
*Timed addition and subtraction test are normally given on Wednesdays.
Science: This week will be learning about time of day and how the days are longer in some seasons. We will chart different days throughout the year and then create a graph to show our findings.