Monday, February 26th
Phonograms: We are starting to work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choose a few each night to review with your scholar.
Cursive: We are continuing cursive this week. Each night, students will practice different letter formations as well as phonograms in cursive.
Phonogram Test on Friday!
Your scholar will keep reading 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. Analyze the character's feelings/actions and how they respond to events in the story.
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 practicing their parts of speech focusing on Possessive Pronoun Adjectives & Subject Pronouns.
Your scholar will be starting comparison bar models. They will need to pay close attention to the descriptions being given in the word problems on their homework.
Your scholar will begin the Civil War Unit.
Test over Westward Expansion on Tuesday, March 5th.
Your scholar will be learning about the life cycles of different animals. They will receive their Life Cycle Project on Wednesday. Please fill out the parent form and return to school on Thursday. This will count as a 10-point HW grade.
LIFE CYCLE PROJECT DUE MARCH 19th.
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.