This Week's Learning

This unit continues students’ study of the natural world, explaining how scientists use animals’ characteristics to classify and study them. Students apply their knowledge by classifying animals according to their characteristics, and by using evidence to classify a particular vertebrate. 

In grammar, students review nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, fragments, and run-on sentences. They study concrete and abstract nouns and write compound sentences by adding subjects and predicates to simple sentences. Students also learn the prefixes un–, non–, re–, and pre–and discuss how adding prefixes changes the meaning of root words and how the parts of speech of words may change.

Overall Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate understanding of key vocabulary

• Record observations and reflections based on informational reading

• Review suffixes and root words

• Alphabetization to the 2nd and 3rd letter

• Developing sentence structure and parts of speech

• Understanding concrete and abstract nouns

• Identifying and applying prefixes

• Writing an informational paragraph

Big Ideas:

• Classification is important for organizing, analyzing, and understanding data.

• Observation and identification of key details and characteristics.

• Engagement in structured inquiry to make reasonable inferences from text evidence.

• Provides a foundation for future learning about classification, life cycles, oceans, marine life, and evolution.

Spelling Test on Friday, September 26th

This week, we are focusing on adding the suffix –es to words. On the assessment, your student will be asked to write not only the root words listed below but also those root words with the suffix –es added. Students have reviewed the rule that when a word ends with the letter ‘y’, it is necessary to change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ before adding the suffix –es. For example, the root word puppy becomes puppies. Your student will be assessed on these words. 

There are NO challenge words this week.

Below are this week's words:

• puppy

• carry

• lady

• dry

• marry

• penny

• study

• butterfly

• bunny

• hurry

Lesson 6 - Multiplying with 3, 4, and 6

Lesson 6 Quiz will be next week!