Happy February

Our new story this week is about another interesting animal that loves the water.
Can you guess?? It is a seal. The story is Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman. The genre is realistic fiction. This story could really happen.

The spelling list are words that end with -ed and -ing:
cared
babies
chopped
saving
carried
fixing
hurried
joking
grinning
smiled
wrapped
parties

Challenge:
making
stopped
moving
libraries

We will also concentrate on identifying helping verbs and completing sentences using helping verbs. For example:
We have learned about young seals.

MATH
The students will review all information from the past unit on subtraction and addition and take a unit end assessment. Good vocabulary words to be familiar with are:
FACT
SUM
FACT FAMILY
REGROUP
ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY
COMMUNTATIVE PROPERTY

Please start to review multiplication concepts through 5 x 10

SOCIAL STUDIES
Continue discussing the Arctic people, animals, customs, and way of life.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
What are the names of the five great lakes located in the United States?