News for the Week of Feb. 4-8

Post date: Feb 1, 2019 6:26:43 PM

All School Mass on Wednesday, Feb. 6. As always, you are welcome to join us!

Lou Malnati's Eat & Earn 4-10 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6.

This week in Reading our main selection is expository fiction entitled Life Cycle of a Pumpkin. We will focus on story sequence and identifying the important ideas in a selection, as well as review antonyms in our daily work this week. Vocabulary words from this selection are: bumpy, fruit, harvest, root, smooth, soil, vine. We will practice the vowel patterns oo and u, as in cook and push in phonics and spelling this week. Spelling words for Friday's test are:

cook

wood

push

book

stood

July

pull

hood

full

shook

brook

put

does

give

In Math, we begin Ch. 15 with 2-digit subtraction. We will be regrouping, or "making trades" as we solve some 2-digit subtraction problems. Keep practicing basic subtraction facts or this can be difficult.