Week of February 10,2020

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Feb 10, 2020
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Important Dates:

Friday, February 14-No School for Students

Monday, February 17-No School for Students

Thursday, February 20- STEM Night @ 4pm

Spirit Night @Burger 21

What We're Learning:

Reading

Week's Theme:

What can we learn from a favorite author: David Shannon?

Main text: How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball

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 2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Essential Question:

What message did David Shannon want his readers to get from the story?

How do characters respond to challenges?

Vocabulary Words:

Declared: to make known officially

Colossal: very large or great

Politicians: someone active in government

Confiscated: to take something away as punishment

Forbidden: not allowed

Sympathetic: feeling concerned for someone who is in a bad situation

English Language Arts

Mentor Sentence: This week, using our mentor sentence book Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink, we will continue our focus on types of nouns with a deeper look at common vs proper nouns. This is a skill we must have mastered as we work to edit and revise our living museum speeches. We will also look at possessive nouns and commas as common marks in our mentor texts.

Phonics: Our phonics pattern for the week has us looking at the tricky al, au, and aw.

Math:

Math 2.1

This week will begin our journey into three digit subtraction with and without regrouping. We working with a variety of strategies to help each our learners feel successful. Our subtraction strategies mirror our addition strategies; including place value blocks, standard algorithm, and number lines.