Monday, January 27th
Phonograms: We are starting to work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choose a few each night to review with your scholar.
Spelling Words: use, thought, person, nor, or, January, mean, vote, court, copy, been, be, yesterday, among, question, quest, doctor, size, December, dozen, there, their, they're, tax, number, October, reason, fifth, baking, bake
Your scholar will start our unit on Tale Tales by reading about Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and John Henry. They will be building reading comprehension by defining new vocabulary based on context, answering comprehension questions, and checking their predications.
CLASSIC TO KEEP NEEDED BY 2/3
Each day, students will bring home a book of choice from the GHNO classroom library. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult.
Each day please log:
1. The title of the classroom library book read.
2. The total minutes your student spent reading (20 minutes minimum).
3. Parent initials confirming minutes read.
Please make sure your scholar is reading and this log is filled out and turned in on Mondays.
It will be counted as a quiz grade.
Your scholar will be learning about what a procedural writing is, why we use it and help create a procedural writing on how to plant a seed and create their own booklet on their own How To booklet.
Your scholar will be review the concepts of chapter 3 with involves word problems with subtraction along with reviewing how to subtraction with renaming in the ones, tens, and hundreds using a vertical equation. They will concluding this unit on Wednesday with a Unit test. On Thursday, we will starting Chapter 4: Addition and Subtraction Using Bar Models.
REVIEW sent home on Tuesday, January 28th
CHAPTER 3 UNIT TEST on Wednesday, January 29th
Your scholars will continue to learn about the war of 1812. We will be learning about how American got into the war along with discovering why/how the Star-Spangled Banner was written.
REVIEW sent home on Wednesday, January 29th
War of 1812 UNIT TEST on Thursday, February 6th
Scholars will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the Unit over Exploring Land and Water by completing a comprehensive review activity, including identifying different landforms, bodies of water, and their characteristics.
REVIEW sent home on Friday, January 24th
UNIT TEST (Exploring Land and Water) will be on Friday, January 31st
Your scholar will be practicing at school but we highly encourage parents to help their scholar practice each day at home. Making sure that they are showing expression, following punctuation, and saying the title and author.