Dear Parents, March 18, 2013
We are starting theme 8 in our reading series – Our Earth. Our reading strategy this week is “summarizing”. The comprehension skill that will help with summarizing is categorizing or classifying. Paying attention to what is the same or different in the stories we read can help us better understand the stories. Our grammar focus this week is action words (verbs) and our phonics focus this week is the action word endings, -s, -ed, and -ing. Our spelling words this week are from unit 33 and have the ending –ed. The words are posted to spellingcity.com. Don’t forget to play the games and take practice tests!
Math finds us working on names for numbers and choosing an operation within word problems. We will finish the week with our Chapter 6 test.
In religion, we will be focusing our attention on coming to Our Good Shepherd. In addition we will be beginning Benjamin’s box. Benjamin’s Box is a special story about a shepherd boy who lives during the time of Jesus. The story centers on the days leading up to Jesus’ Resurrection. Please discuss with your child daily about what they find in their box and why it was important to Benjamin.
We will focus on making it through the tail end of our social studies. We will be learning how to read a table and begin a discussion on transportation.
In science we will begin a new unit on weather! This week we will preview our vocabulary and complete lesson 1 on how weather can change.
This week during our word work time, we will be taking a few minutes to pick out our poem for the Speech Contest. By the end of the week, my hope is that all students have picked a poem that is within requirements and have a copy to take home for practice during these next few weeks.
Announcements:
- Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday so that they may check out another.
- Wednesday is Stations of the Cross at 2pm.
- There is an assembly on Tuesday at 10:30am to announce the winners of the Palmisano Writing Contest. Fingers are crossed for all of our finalists – Paloma, Natalie, Nico, Jennessy, and Joaquin!
- Wednesday is $1 free dress!
- Friday is a half day!
- This week is All About… Jude! Congratulations
Have a wonderful week. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Miss. Manning
