Week of March 2nd
Important Dates:
February 24th-March 7th-Read Across America/Tune Out TV
March 9th-Davis Dash Kickoff
March 11th-Early Release
March 13th-End of 3rd Quarter
March 16th-20th-Bookfair
March 17th-Night of the Arts
March 20th-Davis Dash/3rd Quarter Report Cards Go Home
March 25th-Spirit Wear Wednesday
Grammar: We will be learning about shades of meaning. How can you tell the difference between the words 'mad' and 'upset'? Both show emotion, but one is stronger than the other. Shades of meaning distinguish, or tell the difference between similar words.
Phonics: We will be working on homophones with long e this week. Homophones are words that sound alike but have different meanings and spellings. Red words for the week are: another, built, course, enough. Please practice red words at home and also the meaning for each word. 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 adding and subtracting three digit numbers in word problems. 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 causes environmental changes and also invasive plants and animals.