Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Week of May 23rd, 2011


Reading

Our last story will be The School Mural.

We will concentrate on the comprehension strategy of problem solving.

The vocabulary words for the week are: event, mural, pride, project, scene, and sketches.

The phonics skills will cover base words with -ed, and -ing endings where we drop the final e.

In grammar we will compare things using adjectives.






Elizabeth Ide Field Day

Our outdoor activity day will be on Friday, June 3rd. Lunch will be pizza. Id your child does not like pizza you will need to send him/her a lunch.









Prairie view Visit

The children will meet their pen pals on Thursday, May 26th. We will go to Prairieview after lunch and spend about an hour and a half visiting and looking around. Can you believe they are heading for third grade!!!







Tickets

Each child that turned in reading logs for 7 of the 9 months possible will get a ticket to Six Flags. Thank you for all of your support at home in completing the logs each month.







Math

We will be taking our last fact test soon. If your child has not completed 100 facts in the 5 minutes provided you have some practicing to do over the summer. Multiplication facts are coming in third grade.