Good Afternoon!
I apologize for the gap in new postings.

In Literacy, our students will focus this week on Author's Purpose - why do authors write what they do?

• To Entertain
• To Inform
• To Persuade
• To Give Directions

We will accomplish this task by taking a look at everything we read and asking ourselves why the author wrote this piece and finding information in the reading that can validate our reasons.

We are working with adjectives that compare and also working on writing rhyming poems this week.

Fractions are still the name of the game during math. We will have a test on Thursday on Fractions.

In Social Studies we will begin our unit on Communities Over Time. The students will have the opportunity to read informational text and asnwer questions using our new text books.

We will begin our unit on Earth Materials in Science this week.

Spelling Words:

1. faster 2. wisest 3. bigger 4. slowest 5. cooler

6. hottest 7. soonest 8. shorter 9. kindest 10. louder

11. slimmer 12. wildest 13. tamer 14. whitest 15. strangest

16. characters 17. actor 18. director 19. stagehand 20. orchestra

Homework

Spelling Word Search

Math Home Link pg 191

Speak to you tomorrow!