News for the Week of March 2-6

Post date: Feb 28, 2020 9:11:08 PM

This week in Reading our main selection is literary nonfiction called Fire Fighter! We will focus on determining facts from opinions and practice the strategy of watching for important ideas in a text. Vocabulary words to know from the selection are:

building, burning, masks, quickly, roar, station, tightly

Our Phonics and Spelling focus this week is on the suffixes -ly, -ful, -er, -or, and -ish. Spelling words for Friday's test are:

cheerful

weekly

hardly

quickly

visitor

teacher

graceful

fighter

slowly

helper

yearly

sailor

beautiful

neighbor

station

In Math we are finishing Topic 10: Adding Within 1,000 Using Models and Strategies and will likely have a test on Wednesday.

In English this week we are doing a Writing Workshop. Students are beginning a descriptive writing piece about a place that is special to them. Drafts will be coming home for some editing and proofreading during the week.

Friday, March 6 is Report Card Day. If there is a letter requesting a conference in your child's report card envelope, please use the code to schedule an appointment that is convenient for you on Parent-Teacher conference day. If you do not receive a letter, I have no concerns regarding your child's progress. If you have concerns and would like to meet despite not getting a letter from me, please let me know and I can get the appointment code for you, or we could meet at a mutually convenient time any day before or after school.