Friday, October 11, 2013

Lesson Plans for the week of October 14-18

Weekly Plans
Spelling:  The next spelling test will be October 18th. The spelling words and dictation sentences are not graded the 1st nine weeks but IT IS VERY IMPORTANT to establish this routine of studying and testing.
Words are: face, made, age, safe, take, make, cage, cake, late, name, his, this 
 
Reading: Our story is The Farmer in the Hat. Students will learn about long /a/ as in name and the soft c /s/ like in face and soft g /j/ as in cage.  In our story we will learn about cause and effect. Our grammar skill is to learn about proper nouns.
High-Frequency words: his, this
 
Math: We will introduce subtraction number sentences like 3-1=2. We will continue to discuss number sense and story problems (combining situations).
 
Social Science: We will learn about spiders. If you have any resources you would like to send please do! Please send in an orange piece of poster board.

 

Lesson Plans for the week of October 7-11

Weekly Plans
Spelling: The next spelling test will be October 11th. The spelling words and dictation sentences are not graded the 1st nine weeks but IT IS VERY IMPORTANT to establish this routine of studying and testing.
 Words are: ship, fish, then, shut, with, rush, shell, shop, trash, that, for, as
 
Reading: Our next story is A Big Fish for Max. Students will learn about the digraphs /sh/ as in ship and /th/ as in thin and the vowel sound in words like ball. In our story we will learn about main idea and predicting. Our grammar skill is to learn about nouns (person, place, thing or animal).
High-Frequency words: for, as
 
Math: We will learn about decomposing numbers (subtracting) through using pictures and the number line.
 
Social Science: We will learn about fire safety. If you have any resources about fire safety, please send them to school. Please send in an orange piece of poster board.