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Mrs. Kincaid does an awesome job here at AES! ☺
**Please make sure that your child has needed school supplies!
☺ We are in need of snack size m & m’s for our multiplication check-offs.
Weekly News for February 13-17, 2012
*Don’t forget that your Valentine’s Day mailbox & your cards are due in class on Monday, Feb. 13th.
We will pass out valentines throughout the day during free time.
READING: “Yippee-Yay!” A Book About Cowboys and Cowgirls
Skills: To distinguish main idea and supporting details in expository text; read and understand
nonfiction selection
Vocabulary: ranchers, tending, profit, corral, stray, market
SPELLING: Skill: syllable patterns vccv words
cowboy, horses, corral, winter, always, cactus, garden,
tender, fifteen, basket, welcome, lasso, market, until, Monday, pillows, curtain, feather, mattress,
bedspread **diagrams
**Leather chaps protected their legs from cattle horns, rope burns, scratches, and scrapes.
ENGLISH: Skill: To use main & helping verbs correctly
A helping verb works with the main verb to tell about an action. The words have, has, and had
are often used as helping verbs. (Example: The cowboys have startled the horse.)
MATH: Multiplication, Division & Fractions
**Reward Day for Multiplication check-off will be on Friday, February 24!!!!!
Practice, Practice, Practice!
SCIENCE: Unit B Where Plants & Animals Live
Chapter 3 Relationships Among Living Things
DATES TO REMEMBER:
February 20---President’s Day, No School
Feb. 21-----Music & Movement Night @ AES 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Feb. 22---School Pictures at AES group & individual
**Monday, March 5—Friday, March 16---Spring Break ☺