Dates to Remember:
Monday, October 10 - No School/Columbus Day
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 No School/Teacher Institute
Math -This week in math we will review the addition properties and writing and evaluating addition and subtraction expressions (lesson 3.1 and 3.2). They will write and solve addition and subtraction equations, and they will solve problems using the work backward strategy. The students will practice writing explanations on how they solved their problems. They may need some extra help with explaining what they did and why they solved the problem the way they did.
Spelling - This week in spelling the students will be working with words that have the short "u" as in brush/ "yoo" as in juice/ "oo" as in threw. Workbook pages 52-54 will be due on Friday, unless your child is in the pretest group, and then they should be ready to turn in their activities for the week. There will be a test on Friday.
Reading This week in reading our story is “Finding the Titanic” by Robert D. Ballard.The reading strategy that we will focus on is text organization.Many non-fiction authors organize their selections in time order.They also use features such as headings, pictures, captions, and charts to help the reader better understand the information.
English The students will practice writing with nouns. They will learn to combine two short sentences with the same predicate to create a sentence with a compound subject. They will also identify singular and plural nouns, and write plural nouns correctly.
Social Studies -The students will have homework to color a map of the Northeast Region, which will be due on Wednesday. It is very important that they follow the checklist they are given to be sure that they include all they need in their map and color it correctly. This is a homework assignment that will be graded. They will then take a map quiz on Thursday. They will have to place all the states and bodies of water correctly a map. If they can spell all the words correctly, they will earn an extra point. If they learn all their capitals, they will earn 2 extra points. So they could earn a total of 3 extra points for this quiz.
Science - The following concepts will be covered over the next couple of weeks. How are animals classified? with backbones (vertebrates) without backbones (invertebrates) What are the five groups of vertebrates? Can you tell some facts about each group? (fish,mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles) What are some of the groups of invertebrates? (sponges, mollusks, worms, arthropods) Which is the largest group of invertebrates? ( arthropods- these are insects, crustaceans, and spiders)
