Weekly Update for 02/25/13

                 We are celebrating Dr. Seuss' Birthday All Week!

Feb.25th-March 1^st is our silly time

To celebrate reading and Dr. Seuss so let’s rhyme!

We will celebrate Dr. Seuss and Read Across America too,
It will one fantastic week of hullabaloo.

Monday Pajama Day

(featured book: I am Not Going to Get Up Today)

Tuesday Oppopsite Day

(featured book: The Foot Book)

Wednesday  

Wear all of the colors or go monochrome

(featured book: My Many Colored Days)

Thursday 

Dress as “your future self” 

(featured book Maybe You Should Fly a Jet)

Friday 

Wear a hat on your head

(featured book The Cat in the Hat )

What are we learning this week?  

Reading Story:  Slim, Luke, and the Mules

Skill:  Plot

Strategy: Drawing Conclusions

Language:  Verbs Past and Present Tense

Phonics:  Long u (vowel-consonant-magic "e" uCe pattern); final digraphs th, sh, ch

Math: Place Value (Tens and Ones)

Science:  American Symbols

                     Weekly Schedule

*Monday, February 25             Art               

*Tuesday, February 26             P.E.

*Wednesday, February 27          Library 

*Thursday, February 28            Guidance

Spelling Test and Vocabulary/Comprehension Test on Slim, Luke, and the Mules  

*Friday, March 1                    Music

Weekly Sight Words

These words must be read and spelled.  There will be a test on Thursday, 02/28.

long                his                   had    

him                 watch             hear

were               pull                 has

from               how                funny

             

Vocabulary Words

These words must be read, but not spelled.

angry               growled

comb                answer

another            shouted

hoof

tail