Week of February 10th
Important Dates:
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 rearranging sentences this week. We will take a complete sentence and learn to rearrange it and add interesting words.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 ee. Use ee in the middle and sometimes on the end of a word to spell a long /e/ sound. Red words for the week are: among, nothing, change, toward. 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. Point of view of a story is who is telling the story. 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: 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 subtracting three digit numbers with borrowing. 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: We will be learning about what makes day and night and how the sun moves and shadows change.