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Weekly Newsletter
Room 202
Spelling Words
Please study and practice the words on your own at home.
1. too 7. spoon
2. blue 8. drew
3. suit 9. fruit
4. juice 10. cool
5. new 11. fool
6. true 12. flew
13. terrifying
14. condition
15. swirl
Social Studies
Chapter 6: Why People Work
People work for many different reasons, people have different types of jobs.
Key Vocabulary: slaves, volunteer
Science
Air and Weather
Weather- What is weather?
What is weather forecasting?
What is temperature?
What are clouds?
Please see emails and work packet that will be sent home on Monday. (both hard copy and electronic copy will be sent out to everyone)
Math
Topic 7
Fluently Subtract Within 100
7-1 Represent Addition and Subtraction Problems
7-2 Mixed Practice: Solve Addition and Subtraction Problems
7-3 Continue Practice with Addition and Subtraction Problems
7-4 Solve Two-Step Problems
7-5 Continue to Solve Two-Step Problems
7-6 Math Practices and Problem Solving: Reasoning
Complete test at home on March 25 (Please work on this independently, as students will explain their work when they return)
IXL Skills to Practice
New skills added as of February 2
P.Money
- Names and values of common coins
- Names and values of all coins
- Count money - pennies, nickels, and dimes only
- Count money - up to $1
- Count money - up to $5
- Equivalent amounts of money - up to $1
- Exchanging money - with pictures
- Exchanging money
- Comparing groups of coins
- Add money - up to $1
- Add money - up to $1: word problems
- Subtract money - up to $1
- Subtract money - up to $1: word problems
- Add and subtract money - up to $1
- Add and subtract money - up to $1: word problems
- Purchases - do you have enough money - up to $1
- Purchases - do you have enough money - up to $5
- Which picture shows more - up to $5
- Least number of coins
- How much more to make a dollar?
- Correct amount of change
- Making change
J.Subtraction - three digits
- Subtract multiples of 100
- Subtract multiples of 10 or 10
- Subtract three-digit number
- Subtraction input/output tables - up to three digits
- Subtraction word problems - up to three digits
- Complete the subtraction sentence - up to three digits
- Write the subtraction sentence - up to three digits
- Balance subtraction equations - up to three digits
Reading
Focus Story: T
Additional Story: A New House
Test Thursday March 12 on The Night the Moon Fell Skills
Amazing Words: condition, terrifying, whip, funnel, predict, breeze, sparkle, swirl
High Frequency Words: awaken, prize, volcano, cliffs, rainbow, mountains, suffer
Skills to work on: fact and opinion, plot and theme, prefixes/suffixes, predictions, reading comprehension skills, multiple meaning words, supporting details
Grammar/Conventions: writing friendly letters,suffixes, adverbs that tell when and where
Writer's Workshop: Write all about books/informational text
IXL Skills for Language arts
V.Independent reading comprehension
- Read and understand informational passages
- Analyze stories
- Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales
MM.Context clues
HH.Synonyms and antonyms
- Choose the synonym
- Find synonyms in context
- Choose the antonym
- Which sentence uses an antonym?
- Find antonyms in context
- Which sentence has the same meaning?
II.Homophones
JJ.Multiple-meaning words
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Important Dates
Please see emails and work packet for due dates. All assignments will be due upon student return on March 30, or you may submit electronically.