Welcome to Mrs. Marks’ Memos

September 1-8, 2010

Story:  Exploring Space with an Astronaut

Skills:  Main Idea and Details, Text Structure, Long Vowels CVCe

Spelling Words: 

Tune	page	nose	space
Size	fine	mice	late
Cube	blaze	home	vote

Challenge Words:

Erase

spice

confuse

High-Frequency Words:

Work	live	everywhere
Woman	world	move
Machines

Vocabulary Words:

Ascend:  you go up           

Descend: you go down

Orbit:  the path of something like a spacecraft or planet around something in space, such as Earth or the sun.

Universe:  is made up of Earth, the sun, the moon, and all the other planets and stars in the sky.

Enormous:  very big, huge.

Journey:  a long trip.

Launch:  when you get something started or set it going.

Meteorite:  a piece of stone from space that hits something.

Grammar:  Subjects:  the subject of a sentence tells who or what does something.

                        Example:  Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

                                                Who walked on the moon?  Neil Armstrong

                                           The moon goes around the earth.

                                                What goes around the earth?  Moon

Math:

o   Identify the break-aparts of 10.  Example:  10=8+2

o   Identify the break-aparts of 2-9

o   Partner houses through 10

o   Count on to find the total

o   Count on to solve mystery addition and subtraction problems

News:

1.     Please read the story each night.

2.     Spelling and reading test on WEDNESDAY!!!

Have a great week!!!!!!!