Late Start Wednesday. School begins at 9:35.

Spelling words this week focus on silent letters: knee, gnaw, write, lamb, doubt. Dolch words: want, ride, saw, there, sing

We are continuing to sequence events in stories this week as our reading strategy. Remembering to also identify main characters, setting, and key details.

We’ll begin another unit on opinion writing and focus on a book we would recommend others read–giving 2-3 expanded reasons why they should read that book. I’m expecting reasons beyond, “You’ll like it.”  At this stage students need to write “why” someone would like it.

The math focus this week is reviewing strategies for adding 3-4 2 digit numbers.

Social Studies will reinforce the term “opportunity cost”. This means, when we are limited to only making 1 choice to get something, the opportunity cost is the item you gave up to get your first choice. For example, you want to buy new shoes and you have to choose between 3 kinds you like. We make decisions and think of positive and negative reasons for each pair of shoes. We then buy 1 pair so gave up the opportunity to get the other 2 pairs.

Enjoy the week! Let’s hope this is the last week for snow…. 🙂