Week of February 18

     This will be another shorter week since we have Monday off for President's Day.  We will be talking about the presidents all this week during Social Studies and completing various activities having to do with our Presidents.

     In Religion this week we will begin talking about Lent and things that we can do to grow closer to Jesus.

     We began the next level in Superkids last week, More Adventures of the Superkids.  Our first unit focuses on the letter 'y' and how it can sometimes be a vowel.  We are working on the rules for when 'y' makes the long i sound, the long e sound, and the long a sound.  When working with your child at home you can review these rules with them:  When y is at the end of a word and is the only vowel then it makes the long i sound as in cry.  When y is at the end of a word and there is another vowel that is not next to it then y will make the long e sound as in jelly.  When y is at the end of a word and there is a vowel right next to it then it will follow the rule of when two vowels are together the first one does the talking as in say.  Last week we read the first story in our new purple readers called "In Case of Rain."  This week we will be talking more about the story and writing our own set of directions. 
     We will be having our spelling test for unit 1 on Thursday.

     In math we will work more with adding two digit numbers with regrouping using our dimes and pennies.  Students will work with having to trade pennies for dimes and then counting the money altogether.  This week we will also work on telling time to the half hour, dividing shapes into fourths, and adding 10 to a number.

     In Science students will be completing their planets that they created last week.  Everyone wrote about real things that they would see if they were in space and then continued their writing to include a new planet that they discovered while up in space.  This week we will also begin looking at weather and different types of weather. 
     During science lab this week we will work on what we think could be used to clean pennies.  We will experiment using different things to clean them.  We will also use this opportunity to talk about how the Statue of Liberty went from copper to the green color that it is today.