Our Weekly Skills.......

Week of: 11/17-11/21

*These are the skills and/or chapters we will be covering this week. Please note we will not be introducing new skills due to the shortened week. 

*  We will take a math test over chapter 9 on Friday.  A review sheet will be in your child's planner on Thursday for them to complete at home.  The review sheet does not need to be returned to school.

Phonics Skills-

1)  long e vowel sound /e/ spelled -ey- , -y-

As in the words:   money and key

2)  adding inflections -ed, -es   (y to i)

As in the words:  family- families      carry- carried        country- countries

Reading Skill-

1)  Authors Purpose-  this is the reason why an author writes a story/ passage.  An author may write a story to entertain, persuade, or inform the reader. 

Reading Story- "At Play" on pages 364- 380.

The high frequency words are: imagine, favorite, board, enjoy, year, cook, popular, expensive

Grammar Skill

1)  Singular Possessive Nouns    

Possessive nouns shows ownership.  It tell who or what something belongs to.  An apostrophe plus s ('s) is used to form a possessive noun.

Example:  Maggie's baseball                             the bike's handlebars 

Math Skill-

1) Chapter 9- this chapter focuses on 2 digit subraction with regrouping. 

Science-  

Unit B Chapter 5- Energy Needs-   we have finished this chapter and will take our test on Tuesday.  We reviewed for the test on Friday and Monday.

Social Studies-

Unit 5- America's Past-  we will begin this unit on Tuesday.  We will be learning how people lived long ago.