Thursday, January 5, 2012

WEEK OF JANUARY 9 - 13



LANGUAGE ARTS 

**Spelling – We will have a test over these words on Friday, 1/13.
ankle            title              apple            cable            purple          able
bugle            bundle          bubble          giggle           sparkle         tickle
mumble        scramble      twinkle         BONUS WORDS:  pretended, blanket, culture, represent, valuable
 


**English
We will learn about adjectives and our senses.

** Reading
  We will read the story “A Quilt Story”.  We will do related comprehension, vocabulary, and skills activities.  Our focus will be compare/contrast and story structure.

**Writing
We will write about friendships and things that are valuable to us.

**Cursive
We are writing words using lower case letters.  This is going to take practice.  Please ask your child to write a few words in cursive each night.


**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. 

MATH


We will cover the following concepts this week:
*  add money
*  subtract money
*  problem solving investigation
*  chapter 7 tests

We will continue to review addition and subtraction with regrouping. 
We will review these multiplication tables:  2, 3, 5, and 10.

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