Reading   This week we will discuss why family celebrations are special. We are reading the text A Birthday Basket for Tia about a great-aunt’s ninetieth birthday. We will be practicing the reading strategies of drawing conclusions and questioning as we read. In this story, we will come across some words written in Spanish, so our vocabulary strategy focuses on using context clues to help figure out the meaning of a word.  

Spelling   Our target skill for word knowledge will be words with final syllables –tion, -ture, and –ion. The spelling test will be Friday.

Spelling Words: action, caution, feature, fixture, future, mixture, motion, nation, nature, picture, section, station, tradition, celebration, brilliant.

Math    We will be finishing Chapter 10 this week and our test will be on Thursday. Students should be able to identify titles and labels on a graph, be able to identify correct data amounts on picture, bar and tally graphs, and be able to calculate differences in amounts. They will also need to be able to fill in a bar graph with given data.  

*Our class has won the Marco's Pizza Party! We will enjoy our pizza lunch on Friday. Students only need to bring a drink on this day!

*Monday will be our grade's Field Day! We will be outside the majority of the day, so please dress accordingly. Students should wear comfortable clothing and wear gym shoes.