Week of February 3

Important Dates:

February 3-7-Silent Auction

February 11-Tri-Weekly Papers Go Home

February 12-Parent Coffee-9:00 AM

February 13-STEAM boxes due

February 14-Teacher Workday-No School for students

Reading:

Week's Theme: Don't be afraid to work hard and follow your dreams

Main Close Read Text: Mae Jemison (Luke Collins)

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RL 2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

RL 2.5 Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

Essential Question:

How can identifying the main topic and using text features help me to understand a text better?

"I can Statements" I can identify the main topic in a text.

Vocabulary Words:

Crew- a team of people that work together

NASA- a U.S. government agency that does research on flight and space exploration; NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

experiment-a scientific test to see the effect of something

astronaut-a person who is trained to live and work in space

English Language Arts:

Mentor Sentence: This week we will be reading Substitute Groundhog by Pat Miller. We will be learning about past tense verbs while reading this book.

Phonics:

The phonics pattern we will be studying this week is the -er.-ir and -ur pattern.

Math:

Math 2.1

We will continue to work on addition with regrouping. We will start to focus on adding 3-digit numbers with regrouping.

Math 2.2

We will continue working on adding with regrouping. We will also start subtracting using different strategies.

Math 3.1

We will start exploring geometric shapes to help solve real world problems.

Social Studies:

We will be continuing our units of famous Americans by studying Jimmy Carter and Juliette Gordon Low.

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