Dear Parents, February 3, 2014
Can you believe it is February?! My it is going to be summer before we know it! We had a wonderful Catholic Schools Week. A big “Thank you!” to all who showed support this week and especially to our 8th grade leaders for making this past week truly enjoyable and entertaining.
We are starting theme 6 in our reading series this week – Animal Adventures. Our reading strategy is summarizing and our comprehension skill is story structure. Knowing the setting, characters, problem, events in trying to solve the problem, and the ending will help us summarize the story. Our phonics focus is the long /o/ sound spelled with the CVCe pattern or CV (as is go) and the long /u/ sound spelled with the CVCe pattern. We will also work on the final clusters of ft, lk, and nt. Our spelling words are from unit 22 and all have the long /o/ sound. Our grammar focus is on naming words for people and animals.
Math this week, finds us estimating, comparing numbers, and exploring weight and area!
In religion, we will be discussing how Jesus Shows God’s love.
In social studies we will begin a project, which will sum up our lesson on transportation from last week.
In science we continue to explore our environments. This week we will focus on mountains. We will be doing a special lab on Tuesday (which will be part of our school fair) in which we will need empty tissue boxes. If you have any, please send them in Monday or Tuesday morning! Thank you!
Reminders for the Week:
- Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday.
- This Friday we have no school!
- This week is all about… Joshua! Congratulations!
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Ms. Manning
