Dear Parents, February 21, 2012
We are starting theme 7 in language arts – We Can Work It Out! Our reading strategy is summarizing and our comprehension skill that helps us with this is problem solving. In order to summarize a story, it is helpful to recognize the problem and the solution in the story. Paying attention to the characters, the setting, the problem the characters experience and the way they solve the problem will help you summarize. Practice this skill in reading with your child. After reading a story have your child identify the character(s), the setting, and the problem. Discuss how the characters solved the problem. Also enrich your discussion by coming up with additional solutions and discuss which solution is best. Our phonics focus this week is the long sound of /o/ spelled with the vowel pairs oa (boat) and ow (snow). Our spelling words this week are from unit 32. Please remember to go online to Spellingcity.com and continue to practice the posted words – play the games and take the test. Our grammar focus this week is on Proper Nouns for people and animals.
In math this week, we continue Chapter 6 beginning with sums to 11 and 12 and making beginning lessons on three addends! In religion this week we find ourselves beginning our Virtus lessons. In science we are continuing our unit on weather. In social studies we are continuing our lessons on community life. For our school fair on March 7th, we will be building our very own community. In order to do this we will need clean boxes for our buildings. Cereal, snack foods, shoebox, cylinder oatmeal, tissue boxes all work well. Please send them in by Wednesday so that we may begin our project!
Announcements for the week:
- Please remind your child to bring in their library book tomorrow.
- Water sales continue on Tuesday and Thursday. Thank you for your support!
- Friday is a full day, however the children will participate in school families in the afternoon.
- This Friday the students will have a substitute for the afternoon, as I will be at a conference.
- This week is All About… Gracie! Congratulations!
Have a wonderful week. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Miss Manning
