Things to Remember:
Monday, February 14 - Valentine's Day Party will begin at 1:30. The students may bring Valentines to share with everyone. There are 24 students in class.
Monday, February 21 - No School, President's Day
Friday, February 25 - End of 2nd trimester
Math - In math this week we will begin a unit on geometry. The students will identify, describe, and draw points, lines, line segments, rays, and planes. They will also measure classify, and draw right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles. There will be a fact test on Friday. PLease help your child study for their facts.
Spelling This week in spelling the students will work with words that have the vccv (vowel consonant consonant vowel )pattern. They will learn that when you have two consonants surrounded by vowels you divide between the two consonants then sound out the words.
Reading This week we will begin our study of Poetry. We will focus on some of the elements of poetry including rhyme, sensory words, figurative language, and wordplay. The children will also begin a poetry project. In this project, the children will be learning about and writing nine different kinds of poems. Time will be given in class, but students will also need to work on this project at home. We will be working on Poetry and Figurative Language for the next few weeks.
Your children should show you the notes in their binders. I need them to return a permission slip for the movie Winn Dixie. Also some students volunteered to bring something in for our party on Friday of this week, and I will need a response back from those parents to be sure it is okay.
English - We will continue to study verbs this week. The students will learn to spell verbs in the past tense and identify and write past tense verbs with helping verbs. There will be a quiz to see if the children can identify verbs and helping verbs in a sentence on Tuesday of this week. A test over verbs chapter 3 is planned for Wednesday, February 16.
Social Studies - This week the children will review the water and land of the Midwest. There will be a test on Thursday of this week over chapter 8.
The students should know:
All vocabulary
Understand the main concepts of each lesson in the chapter
Understand why the Midwest is an important agricultural region
Describe the Badlands millions of years ago
What was the cause of the temperature change of the Badlands
Products of Wisconsin and Illinois
Be able to explain how the Great Lakes were formed
Explain how a lock works and why they were built
Advantages and disadvantages of shipping by barge
Name the 5 Great Lakes
Explain why the prairie better for farming than the Badlands
Science - We will study static and current electricty and the students will recognize how electricty moves in circuits.
