Important Dates . . .
January 17 -- M. L. King Birthday -- No School
January 17 -- PTO Dine Out Fundraiser -- Papa Passero's
January 28 -- Bingo Night
February 21 -- President's Day -- No School
February 25 -- End of Trimester
March 1 -- Report Cards
Language Arts
We will hopefully be wrapping up the unit of "Pronouns" this week. Students will get to work with pronouns not only in Language Arts, but in spelling this week and the following week.
Reading
This week we will continue with Soar to Success. We will read a new story each week and focus on phonics and comprehension skills in small groups. This week we will finish The Paper Crane and work on comprehension using winter themed short stories.
We will continue working on phonics, decoding, encoding, and comprehension throughout the week through direct instruction, Lexia, and hands on materials.
Please keep reading 20 minutes a night for the Independent Reading Program! This month I will be requiring 20 days at 20 minutes. Please sign on the date the reading was accomplished. This red folder should be turned in every Friday to make sure they are staying on track. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in for a grade at this Thursday. Keep reading!
Spelling
The spelling words this week will once again reflect the Language Arts unit of Pronouns - more specifically subject pronouns. They will be receiving a spelling practice page daily as an assignment. A test over the lesson will be given Friday. Please try to help your child study daily. One strategy you can use to help with spelling words this week is: Spell words with magnetic letters on cookie sheets.
Practice pages will be assigned for the upcoming week's list on Friday to give additional study time. Over the weekend would be a good time to discuss the meaning of the words. Although we work on meaning typically on Fridays and Mondays, help from home is greatly encouraged! They will be receiving them daily as an assignment. A test over the lesson will be given this Friday.
Science
We will continue with lesson three of Chapter 6, Natural Resources. The "Big Idea" of this chapter is Earth has many natural resources that people use. It is important to protect them to make them last. To maintain a consistent understanding of the science vocabulary words, we will be building this throughout the chapter in the form of flashcards and applying them in spelling also. It is important to begin reviewing vocabulary more often as a test is coming up next week. Students will be bringing home their science text this Friday to reread in preparation for the test.
* Note: This Wednesday we will be making something with reused items. In order to make this science investigation possible on Wednesday, please send your child with one or more items that would normally be recycled - empty kleenex boxes, cans, newspapers, cereal boxes, etc.
Math
We will be wrapping up Chapter 4 this week. This chapter was a review of basic addition and subtraction. In this chapter we focused on problem solving and choosing the correct operation. As a review of the chapter last week they problem solved with snowflakes as the subject of their number sentences. Just a reminder of the strategy the children are learning: PAL.
P = problem ( 2 + 2 = )
A = answer ( 4 )
L = label ( toys )
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and fill in Independent Reading Folder Log
- weekly turn in on Friday
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency
Spelling - Practice Page nightly to be turned in & study words for test
