Friday, February 20, 2015

Plans for the week of Feb. 23-27


Weekly Plans

Spelling: The next spelling test will be Friday, February 27th.  As a reminder, 3rd nine weeks spelling words and sentences will be graded. Please practice writing sentences with your child. There are examples of dictation sentences on the homework sheet.

 Words are: boat, road, snow, row, yellow, loaf, coat, soap, blow, pillow, write, will

* Please use correct letter formation on spelling homework.

 

 

Reading: We will learn about long o /oa/ as in boat and /ow/ as in snow.  We will also learn about 3 letter blends as in scream. Our reading skill is learning about author’s purpose for writing a story. Our grammar skill will be to learn about conjunctions to combine sentences such as and, also, but, so, and because.

High-Frequency words: Review all words in FISH notebook.

 


Math: We will learn about fractions. Our focus will be how shapes are equally divided into halves and quarters.

 

 

Social Science: We are learning about famous Americans. Don’t forget about your famous American project which is due on February 25th. Please have your child dressed as their assigned famous American.