Room 1O2 Ribbit Review
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October 10 - 14, 2016
Phonics
Focus: I can spell words with the /er/ and /ir/ vowel pattern.
This week’s pattern is tricky because they sound the same. Please
practice and expose your child to lots of /er/ and /ir/ words. Reading
them, writing them, and seeing them is the only way suddenly know girl
is not gerl! Here are some good ones to practice…
ER- clerk, germ, fern, nerve, serve, swerve, merge, verge, her
IR- sir, stir, whir, bird, third, thirty, dirty, shirt, skirt, squirt, smirk, birth
Grammar
Weekly Notes & Reminders
• Monday- Jump Rope for Heart
Thank you to the families that contributed to this fundraiser.
The kids have had a great time learning how to jump rope in
gym class. Great exercise for a healthy heart!
• Friday- Early Dismissal at 11:30
Friday is a staff development day and so students will eat an
earlier lunch and dismissal will start at 11:30.
Please send in a note if your child will have
a change in their dismissal routine. Thanks!
Focus: I can identify pronouns within a sentence.
We will begin studying personal and reflexive pronouns this week.
Can your child use some of these correctly in a sentence?
Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, them, our
Reflexive: myself, yourself, ourselves, yourselves
At-Home Practice
• Tuesday: Bossy-R vowel practice
• Thursday: Pronoun practice
Comprehension
Non-Fiction Article: Recess at 20 Below
Vocabulary: No vocabulary words this week!
We will read through this story and discuss how the author
shares factual information through the context of a non-fiction
story. We’ll also compare a non-fiction story structure to that of
a non-fiction magazine.
Describe this school and recess. How is different from Eisenhower?
Math
Focus: I can explore problem solving with subtraction.
Students will distinguish between joining, separating, and
comparing story problems. We’ll also practice strategies for
solving two-step story problems that involve addition and
subtraction parts.
Writing
Focus: I can identify elements of a narrative story.
We have wrapped up exploring personal narratives and now we
will focus on narrative stories.
Ask your child about the narrative story he/she wrote about
their “Frankenkid”. They are so cute! Ask your child to state a
sentence that TELLS about being scared. Then ask your child to
state a sentence that SHOWS being scared.
Eggs, Buckets, & Bullies
Focus: I can identify bullying actions in a story.
Last week we read the story Pinduli. Today, students will write
about how they can take action to help prevent or stop bullying
at Eisenhower. They will also create a jungle mask to fit with the
book.
Science/Social Studies
Focus: I can begin to explore balance.
We are finishing up our unit on Pioneers and moving on to our
science unit called Balancing and Weighing. This week we will
explore what it means to balance and how weight can affect
balance.
What are some ways that you balance in life?
How did adding the paperclip to your butterfly change what you
did to get him to balance on the pencil?
Describe what you did with our beam balance experiment we did
on Thursday.