Monday, February 15, 2010

Happy President's Day

We hope you had a restful and enjoyable weekend. Thank you for all of your wonderful Valentine's gifts and treasures.

Housekeeping:
Thursday, February 18, 2010: Tears of Joy Puppetry presentation: "Rumplestiltskin"
Tuesday, February 23, 2010: Title One Math Night. Come play some games with your child at the school at our Title One Math Night
Friday, February 27, 2010: No School: Record Day
Thursday, February 26, 2010: End of 6-week grading period

Language Arts:
This week we are working on the Lion's Club Essay. We will concentrate on correct use of paragraphs and indentation and very neat penmanship. The students have already written a piece using colorful adjectives and a "grab your attention" opening sentence. It is always good to incorporate these writing conventions into a writing piece, we are just adding one more.

Spelling words for this week concentrate on frequently misspelled words:
  • girl
  • they
  • want
  • was
  • into
  • who
  • our
  • new
  • would
  • could
  • a lot
  • buy

Challenge Words:

wouldn't

world

through

while

Math:

Continue working on Math Multiplication facts for:

2's 3's 4's 5's 9's and 10's

Inuit Test will be given on Wednesday afternoon. We will start a new Science Unit on Earth's Resources.

Question of the week:

What is the gun called that shoots and animal and has special medicine to put them asleep?

What should you do if you find a baby bird out of its nest?

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