Week 3

Dear Parents,

Yet another busy week!

This week we covered the following work:

English

· Writing a Story – a published model

· Story Characters

· Beginning, Middle and End

Reading

· Long e

· Details from the story

· What Happened?

· Rhyme Time!

· High Frequency Words – cow, table, now, door, there, through, horse, wall, me, he, EEK. Sheep, eating

· We read – EEK! There’s a Mouse in the House

Math

· Lesson 10.1 – Count Tens

· Lesson 10.2 – Teen Numbers

· Lesson 10.3 – Tens and Ones

· Lesson 10.4 – Numbers Through 50

· Lesson 10.5 – Numbers Through 99

· Lesson 10.6 – Place Value Through 99

· Lesson 10.7 – Different Ways to Show Numbers

Social Science

· Vocabulary – living thing, non living thing, food, shelter

· What is a Living Thing?

Important Dates for this week

· Monday, 28 February – Peace Memorial Day, no school

· Tuesday, 1 March – Research Project due

· Tuesday, 1 March – Bye Bye Birdie (see below)

· Wednesday, 9 March – Sports Day practice; please ensure that your child wears closed shoes that they can run in as we will be going to the track. Please ensure that your child has a water bottle.

· Friday, 11 March – Spelling Test

· Friday, 11 March – Chapter 10 Test

Work for next week:

Spelling words – Test, 11 March

Mine, time, dime, nine, lines, side, lie, ties, buy, sky, myself, tried

Dictation:

Mrs. Lines gave me an envelope with nine dimes in it and a flash light. I was glad and giggled.

Words for sentences:

Envelope, flash light, flour, fridge, fright, garage, giggle, glad

As part of our class routine, we have a healthy snack break at 10:15 am daily. Please help to promote good eating habits by providing your child healthy snacks such as fresh fruit or vegetables, crackers, cheese, seaweed snacks, sandwiches, or granola bars.

I have added Mr Harris blog address to the “useful links” in the top right hand corner of this blog. On Mr Harris blog your child will be able to access the websites that they use during computer class.

I hope that you have a relaxing long weekend.

Regards,
Robyn Wood