Week 25 February 27-March 2

Parent Conferences are next week, March 5-9. Students will be dismissed at 1:20.

Reading Selection: This week we will finish examining the story Sing to the Stars. Ephram, the main character, loved to play the violin-but not in public. When he discovered that a blind neighbor was once a musician, Ephram encouraged the man to return to his music. Each encouraged the other, and they performed together at a neighborhood concert.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Purposes

• Strategy focus: question
• Comprehension skill: story structure

eWord Game 

Make Your Own Instrument 

This is also the last selection in Theme 4. We will be taking the Theme 4 assessment this week. Students will be asked to show their knowledge about reading comprehension skills, prefixes, suffixes, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling patterns we have covered during this theme.

Math: Essential understanding this week focuses on equivalent fractions. These are found by multiplying or dividing the numerator and denominator by the same nonzero number. Students also will reduce fractions to simplest form, identify improper fractions and mixed numbers.

Please continue practicing flash cards at home.

Word Work: VCCV pattern -Words with this pattern are often divided into syllables between the two consonants.  Consonant clusters – may be two or three consonants and the sounds are blended together ie. str, spr, cl sw, and fr. Connotation – negative or positive.

Spelling words: bottom, picture, other, attend, capture, common, danger, afraid, borrow, office, arrow, suppose, escape, whether, pillow, dinner, thirty, degree, allow, corner.

Test will be February 29.

Grammar:  Comparing with adjectives – using -er, and -est. With long adjectives use more, and use most to compare three or more nouns.

Writing: Writing proper paragraphs, and using good/better/best, and bad/worse/worst.