Student of the Week
Mike
Report Cards - will be sent home on Tuesday. Please sign and return the envelope.
Reading/Language Arts
Next week will be begin learning about animals and their habitats. We will read FireFlies, by Julie Brinckloe. This story is about a boy who enjoys catching fireflies with his friends. He will need to decide if he should set them free. Vocabulary Words: habitat, flickered, moment, cellar, polished, dusty, dulling, grasping, blinked, thrust, dashed, flung, aimed
Grammar: rearrange simple sentences, produce compound sentences, expand compound sentences and rearrange compound sentences
Math
The children will be using models for counting. They will read and write numbers to 1,000 using expanded form and the number word. We will look for patterns to find missing numbers and skip count by fives, tens, and hundreds to 1,000.
Science
There will be a review and chapter test on Natural Resources and a unit test on Our Earth.
Optional Activity: make something useful by recycling, using materials in old things to make new things
Children are welcomed to bring in their projects to share with the class.
Homework
Reading - read for twenty minutes and complete Reading Log
Math - practice facts
Spelling - practice words
