Week of March 4-7, 2013

Language Arts (Review Week)

Reading Comprehension Skills: drawing conclusions, background knowledge, sequencing,

Reading Strategies: multiple meaning words, antonyms, suffixes and prefixes, fact and opinion

Writing: review friendly letters, topic sentences and detail sentences

Conventions: adjectives using senses, adjectives for number, size, shape, comparative and superlative adjectives, adverbs that tell when, where, and how

Phonics: vowel patterns oo, u, ou, ow, oi, oy, syllable patterns, words that end with -le

Math

-discuss the advantages and disadvantages of our subtraction methods
-solve story problems with a preferred method
-making change under $1.00
-subtracting a 2-digit number from any 3-digit number under 200
-estimating to find the difference

Social Studies

- understanding the difference between wants and needs
-understand that people do a variety of jobs to earn money
-interpret bar graphs