Weekly Update for 02/23/15

Snow!

Because of the snow days we had last week, our sight words, vocabulary words, and spelling words will be held over for this week.  I will put a new homework sheet in everyone's red homework folder.  Stay warm!

Read Across America Week

The week of March 2 - 6 will be Read Across America Week.  We will be celebrating a different Dr. Seuss book each day of the week.  Below is a list of the books and the special ways we will be celebrating those weeks:

Mon., March 2     Green Eggs and Ham   wear green

Tues., March 3     Fox in Sox               wear silly socks

Wed., March 4    Oh, the Places You'll Go

                      dress as what you want to be when you

                      grow up or where you want to go

Thurs., March 5   If I Ran the Zoo       

                      bring your favorite stuffed animal to put

                      in the zoo

Fri., March 6       Book Character Day     

                      dress as your favorite book character -

                      it doesn't have to be a Dr. Seuss      

                      character

What are we learning this week?

Reading Story: Slim, Luke, and the Mules

Skill: Drawing Conclusions

Strategy: Plot (Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution)

Phonics: Short U and Long U Vowel Sound(vowel-consonant-"magic E" spelling); final consonant digraphs /ch/, /th/ and /sh/

Language:  past and present tense verbs  

Math: Place Value (SOL 1.1 a and SOL 1.1 b)

Social Studie: Famous Americans (SOL 1.2)

           Weekly Schedule

*Monday, February 23               Computer 
President's Day

*Tuesday, February 24              Music      

*Wednesday, February 25           P.E.

*Thursday, February 26              Guidance
8:00 Donuts with Dads
Sight Word Test

Reading test on Slim, Luke, and the Mules
5:30-7:30 Jump Rope for Heart

*Friday, February 20                 Library

Sight Word Test

Reading test on Slim, Luke, and the Mules

Spelling Test

Weekly Sight  Words

Students must recognize there words for a test on Thursday.
ask  any   an   again   after   where   watch   long
funny    found   

 Weekly Vocabulary Words

These words must be read, but not spelled.

thunder    pull    lightning   been    count    cowboys
food        lose    pointed     town    whole