Week of: February 17th - 21st, 2014

MONDAY – NO SCHOOL PRESIDENT”S DAY

 

Our classroom Valentine’s Day Parties will take place on Tuesday 2/18/14 afternoon

 

**Reading – We will be starting our new story A Symphony of Whales on Tuesday.  This story is a work of Fiction.  This is a made up story that is based on events that actually happened.  Generalization is the skill that we will be working on with this story. 

 

**Spelling – Our new spelling list is made up of words with the Suffixes –ly, -ful, -ness, and –less.  Our PreTest will be on Thursday 2/20.  You can practice our list words at Spelling City website:  http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=551213

**Grammar – Past, Present, and Future Tense Verbs will be our focus next week.  We will be working on identifying the tenses and using them in our writing.

**Math – We will begin Topic 9 Understanding Fractions on Tuesday.  With this Topic we will be working on dividing into equal parts, fractions and sets, and parts of sets.  We will continue practicing and testing our multiplication facts so please continue to review daily. We will have a Timed Test on 4x’s next week.

**Science – Investigation 2 is called Growing Further.  We will be observing the growth of our seedlings in the Hydroponics chambers.  We are discussing Germination and will be learning about the plant life cycle as well.  

**Music – Students received their recorders from Mr. Lennox.  Each student has a manila envelope to use for music.  Please check inside their folder.  Each week they will have an assignment to practice for music class. 

 

Monday –  NO SCHOOL ~ President’s Day

 

Tuesday – Day 4 Art

Spelling – Write 1^st 10 list words ~ Prestest on Thursday

Math – 4x’s practice sheet; Practice all x’s facts

Reading – Listen to story “Symphony of Whales” and review vocabulary

Grammar – Review Past, Present, and Future tense verbs

 

 

Wednesday –  Day 5 Music

Spelling – Write 2^nd  10 list words ~ Prestest on Thursday

Math – 4x’s practice sheet…Quiz Friday; Lesson 9-1 Practice  

Reading – Read story “Symphony of Whales” and review vocabulary

Grammar – Review Past, Present, and Future tense verbs

 

Thursday – Day 1 Computers

Spelling – Write corrections from Pretest

Math – 4x’s practice sheet …. Quiz Friday ; Lesson 9-2 Practice  

Reading – Read story “Symphony of Whales” and review vocabulary

Grammar – Review Past, Present, and Future tense verbs

 

Friday – Day 2 Library

*** Please sign and return all test papers

*** Practice all your Multiplication Facts