WELLS' LANGUAGE ARTS
**Spelling – We will have a test over these words on Friday, 1/6.
sooner, soonest, hotter, hottest, busier, busiest, happier, happiest, smaller, smallest, fatter, fattest, angrier, angriest, straighter, straightest BONUS: question, popular, neighbor, taught, research
**English
We will learn how to correctly use am, is, are, was, and were.
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We will read the story “A Weed Is a Flower”. We will do related comprehension, vocabulary, and skills activities. Our focus will be cause and effect.
**Writing
We will write about ideas we have had and about tools that can be used for research.
**HOMEWORK
We will have a take home reader on Tuesday this week. Your child will bring home a story that should be read to an adult. The story booklet should be signed by the person listening to the story and returned to school on Wednesday.
**BOOK IT – JANUARY GOAL – 250 MINUTES - DUE 1/30.
For the next few months we will be participating in the Book It at-home reading program sponsored by Pizza Hut. At the beginning of each month your child will be given a calendar with that month’s reading goal. Your child will read the specified number of minutes, have the calendar signed by an adult, and return the calendar to school by the due date. When the calendar is returned to school, I will give your child a coupon for a FREE personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. Your child will also receive a 100% as a Book It reading grade. Failure to complete this assignment will result in a 0% as a Book It reading grade.
WELLS' MATH
We will learn the following new concepts this week:
* determine the value of money
* pennies, nickels, and dimes
* quarters and half-dollars
* counting coins
* problem solving strategy
* dollar
* addition and subtraction with regrouping
SOCIAL STUDIES
We will learn the following concepts this week:
* mountains
* glaciers and volcanoes
* valleys and plains
* islands and peninsulas
* oceans and streams of water
* lakes and ponds
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