Miss McCurdy’s Classroom Newsletter

On Tuesday, students will be starting Story 11: “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.” They will be learning how to make conclusions and review the author’s word choice. In Spelling, students will be spelling words with base words and endings –s, and –es. In Grammar, students will be learning how to identify and write compound sentences.

Spelling Words: hens, eggs, ducks, bikes, boxes, wishes, dresses, names, bells, stamps, dishes, grapes, jets, frogs, stitches, and fences

Vocabulary Words: understand, gathered, impatient, impossible, believe, problem, demand, furious

High-Frequency Words: another, far, grow, hard, heard, kind, light, more, some, and to

Spelling Test: Tuesday, January 9 th

Reading Test—Wednesday, January 10 th

Language Arts

Fawn Primary Center

Week of January 1 s t-5 t h, 2018

We will be continuing on with the “Weighing and Balancing” unit. Students will discuss/review the relationship between weighing and balancing. In Lesson 11, students will be graphing the weights of the objects in Lesson 10. They will make bar graphs showing their data. Lastly, students will

read how animals are weighed at the zoo.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Math

We will be continuing on with Chapter 4. Students will be learning how to regroup

in addition. This lesson will be spread across over 2 days. On Thursday,

students will be learning how to drawing quick pictures and using recording 2-digit

addition using the standard algorithm. On Friday, students will be completing a

“Mad Minute” for addition and participating in math centers to review

previously taught skills.

SCIENCE

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Monday—

NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENT’S AND STAFF

NEW YEAR’S DAY!

Tuesday—School’s Re-Open Regular ScheduleComputers

Wednesday—Regular Schedule Physical Education *Wear Tennis Shoes

Thursday— Power Up—Specials Combines Regular Schedule Friday—Regular Schedule Library * Bring in your LibraryBook to Exchange for a new book!

Upcoming Events

In Language Arts, students took the Reading Test on Story 10. Check their folders for their results.

In Math, students learned how to make an addend of ten to help solve an addition problem. Also, they learned how to break apart addends to add tens and ones.

In Science, students continued to use the equal-arm balance to weigh items and put them in serial order.

Language Arts: Study Spelling Words for Test on Tuesday, January 9 th Review Vocabulary Words and High-Frequency Words for Reading Test on Wednesday, January 10 th

Math: Review Sheet. 4.4, 4.5

Science: NONE

Parents Corner

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This Week’s Assignments

This Week’s Happenings!

THANK YOU to the parents who planned and organized our

Holiday Party before break! We had a FANTASTIC time!

Also, THANK YOU to all who sent in a book for the “Book

Exchange.” The students were very excited with the book(s)

they got!

Monday, January 15 th : School Closed(Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday) or Snow Make Up Day #1

Monday, January 22 nd : End of 1st Semester

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