Mrs. Woodford's Newsletter
November 17-21, 2008
Language Arts
Reading story: It is a review week. We will assess on Thursday and Friday.
Story skills: abbreviations, synonyms, sequencing, ear/our
Grammar Theme:
nouns, plural nouns, names of people, places and petsSpelling Theme: review: ack/ock, abbreviations, our, ar/arm/ark
Mathematics
We are working in Chapter 4, "Mental Math". The following are our lessons for this week:
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4-2 Adding Ones |
4-3 Adding Tens and Ones |
4-4 Estimating Sums |
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4-5 Subtracting Tens and Ones |
Review Skills |
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Nov. 18th homework is Diagnostic Checkpoint 140/141
Please practice additions and subtraction facts to 18 for 10 minutes each night!
See these websites for more practice:
Science
We are learning about animal habitats.
Social Studies
We are learning about wants, needs, earning/spending/saving money. A Unit 2 test will be on Wednesday, Nov. 19th.
November 24th-28th
Language Arts
Reading story: Johnny Appleseed
story test on 12/4
Story skills: details, charts and graphs
Grammar Theme:
names of daysgrammar quiz on 12/5
Spelling Theme: review: /ir/ eer,ear
see the words here: http://www.smasd.org/spelling/grade2spelling11wordlist.htm
pre-test on 12/3 and final test on 12/5
Mathematics
We are working in Chapter 4, "Mental Math". The following are our lessons for this week:
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4-7 Estimating Differences |
4-8 Try, Check and Revise |
4-9 Addition and Subtraction Patterns |
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Nov. 25th homework is Diagnostic Checkpoint 151/152
Please practice additions and subtraction facts to 18 for 10 minutes each night!
See these websites for more practice:
Science
We are learning about animal habitats.
We will have some fun Thanksgiving activities on Wednesday, Nov. 26th.
Have a wonderful holiday!
Congrats to our Citizens on the Month:
Sept. Maggie
Oct. Hunter
Nov. Gina