When two or more people get together, there is potential for conflict. Conflict is a problem between two people. It is important to teach students how to resolve conflicts in a way that reconnects them to others.

We are finishing our Unit 4- Explore Meaningful Measurements.

In this unit- Students will use measurement tools to estimate, measure, describe and compare the measurement of objects with non-standard units and standard units with appropriate vocabulary including length, time and money.

This week:

• Students will take their Unit Assessment on Thursday, February 29th.

The Unit 4 Assessment will cover the following skills.

• Measuring with unit tiles
• Determining if students understand the rules of measurement- end to end, no gaps, no overlaps, and same unit/size of measurement.
• Measuring with rulers (inches only)
• Writing statements that compare items and their lengths.
• Ordering items based on their lengths
• Reading clocks to the hour and half hour
• Telling elapsed time using number lines.
• Identifying the 4 main coins and their value- penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
• Comparing sets of coins to determine which set has a greater value

How Can I Help My Student Prepare:

• Create practice problems based on the questions from the study guide.

Phonics- Phonograms

This week's pattern will include common phonograms.

A phonogram is a series of letters that represents 1 or more sounds. The vowel sound changes in a phonogram. For example, ng is a phonogram that can be found in the following words: sing, song, sang, sung. It sounds slightly different after each vowel sound. Another example would be nk. think, thank, hunk, mink.

Pattern words: song, bang, crank, thing, blink, gong, bonk, Hank

Heart Words: once, open.

Ways to Help At Home:

• Have students practice writing words that follow this spelling pattern.
• Students can also go on words hunts within their books at home. How many words can they find in their books? Students can write and make a list.
• Practice the heart words that we have learned so far.
• Check out the pacing that is linked below and review previously taught patterns and heart words.
• Read the decodable books that are sent home with your child.

Unit 5 Wonders- Week 3

This week we will read and discuss different inventors and their inventions.

We will discuss/practice the following skills:

• reading a biography
• asking and answering questions within a text
• identifying a problem and solution within a text.
• reading back into the text to discover text evidence

The texts that will be covered this week:

• The Story of a Robot Inventor
• Thomas Edison, Inventor

This week in grammar, we will continue to work with adjectives.

Our focus this week is on adjectives that compare.

• We will begin our Needs of Living Things Unit. In this unit we will explore what plants and animals need to survive and thrive.

  
  

  Our focus this week will be plant needs.

  
  

  • Plants have parts that help them survive- roots, stem, leaf/leaves, flower, fruit, pollen.
  • Plants have basic needs: air, water, sunlight, space to grow (habitat), soil, nutrients
  • When plants and animals cannot find enough food, water, or air, they may die.

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Email: robertsa7@fultonschools.org

Website: https://www.fultonschools.org/cogburnwoodse

Location: 13080 Cogburn Rd

Phone: 470-254-2845