Tuesday, February 18th
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: care, try, delay, bear (eat), bare, clear
Cursive: We are continuing cursive by learning our capital letters.
ALL SPALDING HOMEWORK IS NOW DONE IN CURSIVE.
Spelling Test on Friday!
Your scholar will be continuing the classic to keep "Little House in the Big Woods" this week. They will be working on reading comprehension skills, listening skills and answering questions about the text. If your scholar has not brought their book to school send it with them this week.
CLASSIC TO KEEP NEEDED:
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 listen and discuss the story read to them. Then students will write a summary about the story in their own words while using complete sentences with details from the story and referencing comprehension questions for guidance.
Your scholar will learning about bar modeling using addition and subtraction word problems. Along with the learning the different between a part-whole model and a comparison bar model.
Your scholar will be continuing our unit on Electricity and Magnetism. They will be discovering where different items derive, get, their source of electricity from.
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.