Week of May 6-10, 2013

Here are our objectives for the coming week:

Language Arts

Reading: informational texts, author's purpose, summarizing, multiple-meaning words

Story of the Week: Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag by John Herman

Phonics Skill: abbreviations

Spelling Words: Mr., Mrs., St., Jan., Feb., Aug., Dr., Ms., Rd., Oct., Nov., Dec.

Conventions: quotation marks
Writing: descriptive poems and songs

Math

-compare fractions using fraction strips

- write money amounts as fractions
- discuss probability
-finding all possible combinations