News for the Week of May 10-14

Post date: May 7, 2021 8:29:03 PM

18-1/2 more school days, but who's counting?

We are in our final stretch! I hope your family enjoyed a beautiful Mother's Day celebration. The kids worked long and hard on their personalized books about their Magnificent Moms. I hope you enjoyed them.

This week our phonics and spelling focus is on final syllables -tion, -ture, -ion. Spelling words to know for Friday's test are:

mixture

future

caution

motion

nation

picture

station

nature

section

action

fixture

feature

piece

tomorrow

Our main reading selection this week is realistic fiction entitled A Birthday Basket for Tia. We will review the skills of drawing conclusions and questioning as we read. Vocabulary words to know from this selection are: aunt, bank, basket, collects, favorite, present.

In Math we have completed our study of data and graphs and move on to our final topic of the school year. Topic 15 is Shapes and Their Attributes. After we complete it, we may have a little time left to get an introduction to some 3rd grade work!