February Newsletter

Language Arts/Spelling Lists

Week of 2/1/16

-ur

Cure, pure, burn, churn, sure

Week of 2/8/16

Ever, never, better, her, per

Week of 2/16/16

prefix re

Reread, remix, relist, retell, refresh

2/22/16

Prefix-un-

Unable, unjust, unbend, undo

2/29/16

Prefix pre

Pretest, precut, preschool

Math

Continue working on unit 5  pre –test

·         Pre-test goes home to review and to be prepared for the post test

·                                 Unit 5 post-test will be on Thursday 2/4/16

Unit 6

1. Addition of three or more numbers

2. Subtraction two digits

3. Multiplication and division

4. Multiple of equal groups

Social Studies

Unit 4 How do people work in a community?

Lessons:

·         Scarcity and choices

·         Opportunity cost

·         Using natural to produce goods

·         And services

·         Business in our community

Vocabulary cards go home every day to review what we learned in the class.

Science-Earth Science

Landforms.

1.Describe the major landforms of the surface of the earth

Mountains- plains- valleys, hills

2. Identify and describe natural causes of change in the Earth’s surface(erosion, glaciers, volcanoes, landslides, and

earthquakes)

3. How does wind and water change the land?

4. Weathering and erosion in my neighborhood

Weathering means the breaking down of rocks and soils.

Watch videos on earthquakes and volcanoes to see why landforms change shape and size.