What Are We Learning

This week in class:



Please study your spelling and reading words each week. 
This week in class:

Spelling/Phonics - We are learning about the /or/ sound.
This week's spelling words include or, for, form, more, store, sort, long, 
bring, your, and head. Please note that the new list includes some words from 
last week. This week's spelling test will include spelling words from all of 
our word lists to date.  It is important to remember that spelling is 
cumulative.
Please practice spelling, reading and writing these words every night.  
There will be a spelling test on Friday.  



Reading - This week's high frequency words are animals, from, very, fish, 
cold, under, and their. Students need to be able to read these words.  At 
this time, they are not required to spell them.

This week's robust vocabulary is below.  Students do not need to know how to 
read these words.  They need to be able to tell what they mean.

nuzzles – If an animal nuzzled against you, it would be rubbing you with its 
face or nose.
pranced – If you pranced around, you would be walking in a bouncy spring way, 
like a horse.
raging – When something is raging, it is happening in a strong or out of 
control way.
adapt– If an animal adapts to a place, it has body parts or ways of acting 
that help it live there.
intriguing – If you think that something is intriguing, you are curious about 
it and very interested in it.
inhabit – If you inhabit a place, you live there.

Students will be discussing identifying the plot of a story.  The plot of a 
story is what happens in that story.  When reading with your child, ask 
him/her to tell you what happened in the beginning, middle and end.

Practice reading the story "Land of Ice" in your black reading notebook.  
There is a reading test on Friday.


Grammar – We are learning about proper nouns (special names and titles for 
people).

Math – We will continue learning subtraction concepts.  

Science – We will continue our “Communities” unit.  Please make sure your 
child can recite their address and primary phone number.  This will be a 
graded skill.




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