Announcements, Plans, and Assignments {Week of 3/7-3/11}

• This Week:  National School Breakfast week. See DPES for more details
• Wednesday, March 9th: Cookie dough pick up
• March 15th: School Picture Day
• March 18th: Weather Day
• March 21-25: SPRING BREAK!!!
• March 31st: Report cards sent home
• ACT Aspire Dates: April 5-8 - PLEASE plan to have your child at school each day during this week.
• Eagle Idol Talent Show: April 28th, Grades 1-3 @ 5:00pm, Grades 4-6 @ 7:00pm - Tickets are $3.00, sold at the door
• Thursday, March 3rd, 5:30-7: Spaghetti with Suess! Drop by DPES for a spaghetti dinner and leave with new books! Every book sent in during the week of Feb. 22nd - 26th will earn 1 ticket to be used to "buy" a brand new book at the book swap!
• Friday, March 4th: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts for sale in the carpool line - $8/box to support GT students' trip to Camp McDowell
• Mother's Day Cakes - Order a Mother's Day cake from Publix - order form HERE if you've misplaced yours
• SCHOLASTIC BOOKS - Long onto the Scholastic book club website by clicking below. I encourage you to check out the books and possibly offer to purchase one for your child as a reward, incentive, etc. These are great, quality books at a terrific price! To order, simply click below!



Should you need our class activation code, it is: L7VRY


The more books YOU order, the more reward points our class earns to purchase new books for the classroom library. It's a win for all! :-)

PLANS

READING:

• Skill: Main Idea and Details
• Strategy: Infer
• Vocabulary Skill: Context Clues 
• Vocabulary Words: dashed, drifted, gulped, refused, sensible

LANGUAGE ARTS:

• Grammar Skill: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
• Spelling Skill: homophones
• Spelling Words: to, two, too, stair, stare, write, right, knew, new, week, weak, flour, flower, our, hour, they're, their, there, weather, whether
• Writing:  Word Choice trait

ASSIGNMENTS

• Monday: FIELD TRIP
• Tuesday:  Spelling HW assigned (2 activities required), Grammar pg. 85 - if not completed in class
• Wednesday: Grammar pg. 86 - if not completed in class
• Thursday: Study for Spelling Test and DLR 26 Quiz
• Tests Today: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Test (possibly moved to Friday- based on student understanding)
• Friday: Tests Today:  Compare/Contrast and Main Idea Test, Spelling Test, DLR 27 Quiz