The week of February 20th through 23rd, 2017

Spelling List #9 /f/ :

New Words:golfer     felt     farmer     full     feelings     family     cough     enough      roof     
rough     forgetful     fashion      photograph     tough     phrase     

Review words:  noise     destroy     voice

Challenge words:  paragraph     difference

Test for list #9 will be on Thursday, February 23, 2017

Reading and Language Arts:

• Mountain Language Packet
• Grammar Rule #12 A verb tells what is happening to the noun. Action verbs:  show an action.  My dog ran away.  Linking verbs:  connect the subject to a noun or an adjective that describes it.  Most common are am, is, are, was and were.  Helping verbs: come before the main verb to tell about the action.  Some are- will, has, had, have, could, would, should, do, does, and did.  (We didn't get to it last week;)
• Parts of Speech Grammar Packet- Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Article Adjectives, adverbs and types of sentences. 
• Continuing our new class book, Ralph S. Mouse  and our comprehension booklet that goes with it.

Math:

• Mountain Math packet
• Math 4 Today. 
• CCSS:  Specify and partition a whole into equal parts, identifying and counting unit fractions by folding fraction strips and by drawing pictorial area models.

Homework:

• Students will have paper homework for math on Tuesday and Wednesday and they are due the following days.  (5 points each)
• February Reading calendars will be due on March 3rd.  If you misplace the calendar, a note or an email will work as well. (100 points)
• Monday and Wednesday students will do 30 minutes of IXL on Fractions.  Look for the yellow stars.
• Reading on MyOn is always a choice and can be recorded on your reading calendar for minutes read.  

Dates to Remember:

• Order pizza on Tuesday to eat pizza for lunch on Wednesday. $1 a slice for pepperoni or cheese.
• These are the days we will make up from the snow days
• February 10th, February 20th, March 10th, April 21st and May 5th.
• NO SCHOOL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th for teacher inservice.
• Please remind your child to bring a snack each day as we take a short break at 10:30 am to keep us going until our lunch time at 12:40 pm.