February 27, 2012




Student of the Week
Alex








Reading
Theme: Amazing Animals
Genre: Folktale
The story for this week is The Great Ball Game. In this Muskogee legend, Bat plays an important part in a game between the Birds and the Animals.
Target Skills:
Phonics: vowels pairs oa, ow
Comprehension: cause and effect; summarize
High Frequency Words: ago, field, half, war
Vocabulary: accept, advantage, argument, quarrel, penalty



Math - Students will separate plane figures to make new figures, transform figures by translation, reflection, and rotation, and use the line of symmetry to divide a plane figure into congruent figures.


Science - Students will simulate the removal of fossils from Earth, by removing objects from clay using tools.

Social Studies - We will obtain information from usual sources such as photographs of artifacts of Presidential Treasures from the Smithsonian.


Homework
Reading - read 20 minutes and complete reading log
Math - practice facts & one side of a worksheet, 2 sides of a workbook page


*Please check your child's homework and have him/her correct mistakes.