Important Info.
1. Report Cards will be sent home electronically on Friday!
2. The Trimester 2 Report Card will be sent home in your child's back pack this week explaining Trimester 2 standards, etc.
3. Green Read-A-Thon papers were sent home last week. We will be collecting donations towards our school-wide Read-A-Thon! ALL proceeds go towards the NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT! Top classes get free Scholastic book money and a class party of some sort. Top earing class gets an ice cream party!
4. Mr. Theman's 6th grade School Store is open on Thursday's. If your child wants to shop, they can bring money in a baggie with their name on it.
5. Mornings are still chilly...make sure your child has a jacket or sweatshirt to wear for morning recess!
Reading: Wonders Unit 5 Week 3
Weekly Concept: Our Heroes
Essential Question: What do heroes do?
Phonics Skill: variant vowels /u/ and /u/
Spelling Words: room, flu, June, new, glue, fruit, crook, could, full, push, point, coin, along, ever, strong
High Frequency Words (Sight Words): air, along, always, draw, during, ever, meant, nothing, strong, story
Vocabulary Words: agree, challenging, discover, heroes, interest, perform, study, succeed
Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
Genre: Biography
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Comprehension Skill: Connections Within Text: Sequence
Math: This week, we will continue with addition number stories and I will be introducing subtraction numbers stories, all while using the strategies we have learned so far; open number line, number grid and base 10. We will also continue learning about the different types of graphs.
Science/Social Studies: This week we will begin our unit on plants; focusing on the parts of the plant and the plant life cycle. We will be planting individual seeds in the classroom this week too!
1. Report Cards will be sent home electronically on Friday!
2. The Trimester 2 Report Card will be sent home in your child's back pack this week explaining Trimester 2 standards, etc.
3. Green Read-A-Thon papers were sent home last week. We will be collecting donations towards our school-wide Read-A-Thon! ALL proceeds go towards the NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT! Top classes get free Scholastic book money and a class party of some sort. Top earing class gets an ice cream party!
4. Mr. Theman's 6th grade School Store is open on Thursday's. If your child wants to shop, they can bring money in a baggie with their name on it.
5. Mornings are still chilly...make sure your child has a jacket or sweatshirt to wear for morning recess!
Reading: Wonders Unit 5 Week 3
Weekly Concept: Our Heroes
Essential Question: What do heroes do?
Phonics Skill: variant vowels /u/ and /u/
Spelling Words: room, flu, June, new, glue, fruit, crook, could, full, push, point, coin, along, ever, strong
High Frequency Words (Sight Words): air, along, always, draw, during, ever, meant, nothing, strong, story
Vocabulary Words: agree, challenging, discover, heroes, interest, perform, study, succeed
Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
Genre: Biography
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Comprehension Skill: Connections Within Text: Sequence
Math: This week, we will continue with addition number stories and I will be introducing subtraction numbers stories, all while using the strategies we have learned so far; open number line, number grid and base 10. We will also continue learning about the different types of graphs.
Science/Social Studies: This week we will begin our unit on plants; focusing on the parts of the plant and the plant life cycle. We will be planting individual seeds in the classroom this week too!