March 3, 2014





Student of the Week
Zachary







Reminder - Our field trip to the Rialto Square Theatre will be on Thursday.  Please remember to send a sack lunch to school, we may not be back in time for students to buy a lunch.  Students will eat their lunch when we return to school.

Reading
Theme:  Around Town:  Neighborhood and Community.

Genre:  nonfiction
The story for this week is A Trip to the Firehouse.  A group of children visit their neighborhood firehouse and learn all about how firefighters do their jobs.
Target Skills 
Comprehension: topic, main idea, and supporting details
High Frequency Words:  clothes, order, guess
Vocabulary Words:  chief, gear, dispatch, emergencies, firefighters,fire engine

Math
There will be a review and test on Chapter 13, Time.  We will begin Chapter 14, Solid Figures.

Science
We will begin Chapter 6, Natural Resources.  The vocabulary words are:  resources and natural resources.  We will be observing how objects decompose over the next several weeks.

Social Studies
We have been learning about the symbols of different states.  Students will be writing an acrostic poem about a state they have chosen, using information for a book.  

Homework
Reading - read for 20 minutes & complete reading log
Math - practice math facts & 1 side of a WS
Spelling - practice words/sort words by patterns