{"id":1833,"date":"2017-02-17T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:55:49","slug":"february-27-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2017\/02\/17\/february-27-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"February 27, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;what a fun week! \u00a0Lots of celebrating and learning too. \u00a0Here&#8217;s to a week off and then back at more learning.<\/p>\n<p>READING-We will begin Unit 7\u00a0<em><strong>WEATHER. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Our weekly theme will be\u00a0<em><strong>Kinds of \u00a0Weather.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>WRITING-What else&#8230;we&#8217;ll write about different kinds of weather, our favorite type of weather, what constitutes that weather, etc \u00a0You can begin this conversation during the break.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beginning, Middle, End\u00a0<\/em>will be revisited again. \u00a0Try this with stories that you read at home. \u00a0What happened\u00a0<em>first? \u00a0<\/em><em>Middle of the story? \u00a0Last in the story?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MATH-Lots of &#8220;counting on from a given number.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE-Water!! \u00a0Waterproof? \u00a0Why? \u00a0Why not? \u00a0Try this at home too<\/p>\n<p>SPELLING WORDS-<strong>Please help your child study these words.<\/strong> \u00a0Have them <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">write<\/span>\u00a0the words. \u00a0All letters must be written correctly. \u00a0If not, the word is incorrect. \u00a0For example, today several folks missed &#8220;jet&#8221; because the lower case\u00a0<strong>j<\/strong> was written above the line. \u00a0Also, some wrote it going in the wrong direction. \u00a0Same thing with &#8220;for&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;<strong>f&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>and &#8216;<strong>r&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>were backwards. \u00a0That&#8217;s why it is important to have the student\u00a0<em><strong>write\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>the words so that you\/they can check each letter.<\/p>\n<p>We will be working with the &#8216;<strong>ig&#8221;<\/strong> family. \u00a0(MAKE SURE THE\u00a0<strong>g<\/strong> HOOKS BELOW THE LINE! \u00a0ALSO CHECK THAT THE b and d ARE GOING IN THE CORRECT DIRECTION)<\/p>\n<p><strong>pig \u00a0big \u00a0 dig \u00a0are \u00a0what \u00a0and \u00a0rain \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing your children with me. \u00a0Every day they bring me such joy!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;what a fun week! \u00a0Lots of celebrating and learning too. \u00a0Here&#8217;s to a week off and then back at more learning. READING-We will begin Unit 7\u00a0WEATHER. \u00a0Our weekly theme will be\u00a0Kinds of \u00a0Weather. WRITING-What else&#8230;we&#8217;ll write about different kinds of weather, our favorite type of weather, what constitutes that weather, etc \u00a0You can begin this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}