Thursday, September 21, 2017

September 18-22, 2017


Language Arts: Describe characters in a story (their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events).
Mentor Sentence: He was always at the end of the line, always at the foot of the class, a forlorn tag-along. Crow Boy
Vocabulary: Week 4 vocabulary Quiz Friday, September 22 - focus on suffix -less
Convince, swiftly, rely, rare, precise, suggest, support, careless, fearless, scoreless, harmless
Social Studies:
  • Locate major topographical features on a US map: Rivers - Mississippi, Ohio, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson, & St. Lawrence; Mountain Ranges - Appalachian & Rocky
  • Locate and describe equator, prime meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.
  • Map and globe skills: use a letter/number grid system to determine location, compare and contrast the categories of natural, cultural, and political features found on maps
  • Information Processing Skills: Identify social studies reference resources to use for a specific purpose.
Math: Weekly focus: NBT.2 - Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on price value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. Addition with regrouping quiz: Friday, September 22nd

Homework:
* Read 20 minutes nightly
* Study vocabulary  - quiz September 22nd on week 4 words
* IXL, Mobymax, xtramath

Important Dates:
Book fair continues through 9/19
Grandparent lunches continue through 9/18

9/19 - Picture make-up day (send letter with child if you want your child’s picture retaken)
September 22 - addition with regrouping quiz & character traits quiz
September 26 - rivers & mountains identification quiz

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