Reading
This week students will experience a variety of folktales, myths, and legends. Students will identify moral lessons as themes in these well known stories and use text evidence to support their understanding.

Writing

Feb. 24th:
This week we will work on addressing a prompt with a written story. There will be a variety of prompts on academic areas and narratives. We will focus on writing a clear beginning, middle, and end. We will also use correct sentence structure, capital letters, and punctuation. We plan to study synonyms and antonyms this week too. We will play the game “I Have, Who Has?” and practice in pairs throughout the week.

March 3rd:
This week we will become crafty with our writing by “Showing- Not Telling” about a feeling. We will learn how to use words to show how a feeling is instead of telling about it. This can be tricky so we will work on some as a class to start and then finish off the week by writing independently on a particular feeling.

Spelling
Our words have different types of syllables this week. We will practice throughout the week and check for understanding on Friday.

Math
We are moving into 3 digit addition and subtraction this week. We will practice with games and word problems before reviewing everything we’ve learned and assessing at the end of the week.

Science:
What’s the weather going to be like this week? We’ll find out as we move into weather in science. Students will learn about patterns in the natural world. We’ll measure, record, and graph weather information, including temperature, wind conditions, precipitation, and cloud coverage. Students will identify the importance of weather and seasonal information to make choices in clothing, activities, and transportation. We’ll have fun looking at different types of weather and decide what’s the best clothing to wear for the type of weather and discuss how to decide how to dress each day. In Texas, of course, what you wear one hour may not work the next! Students will have fun singing songs about weather too! An exciting experiment will be when we try to explore what the best fabric for a raincoat would be and why. At the end of the week, we’ll become meteorologists and write a weather reports using the words we’ve learned all week. Students will present to the class and be true reporters.



Reminders:
6 Flags Reading Minutes are due on February 26th
Field Trip to Laguna Gloria March 7th (permission slips are going home next week)
Life Journals due Friday
Spelling check on Friday
Library day is Wednesday
Family Dinner Night is on March 1st