Schedule for the Week of Oct. 13-17

Hello! I'm sorry this blog update is a day late!

Remember, we have a short week coming up.  No school Wednesday through Friday.

Here's what we'll be covering during Monday and Tuesday.

Have a great week! And a nice long weekend!

Reading:

• Phonological Awareness: rhyming words
• Reviewing High-Frequency Words: I, a, my, the, go, can
• Introducing Aa (short sound)
• Continuing to identify and discuss characters in a story
• Reviewing Robust Vocabulary: appetite, savor, urgency, aroma, surround, traditions
• Continuing to work on recognizing and writing sentences
• Introducing graphic organizers and working on taking notes about text we read together

Reading Lesson 5 (due back Friday, October 24)

Leveled Readers: (feel free to work on these at home with your child. We're working with them in class too)
Lesson 5 Red (focuses on the letter C and words that start with C)

Lesson 5 Blue (focuses on the sight word GO, uses pictures to help students figure out words, remind students to look at the picture and look at the beginning sound of the word to help determine the actual word)
Lesson 5 Green (more complex sentences, focuses on repetition of the same words such as Cam.)

Math:

• Unit 1: (Assessing Unit 1 on Monday, October 20)
• 1.23: Scenes of 1
• Objectives: explore groups of 1
• Vocabulary: scene, pair
• 1.24: Make a Class Graph
• Objectives: make and read a graph; identify shapes
• graph, fewer, less

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: 1.23
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday:
• Thursday
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge Homework: (optional)
• Monday: 1.23 challenge
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 
• Friday:

Science:

• Continuing to observe and discuss trees 
• Continue to discuss parts of a tree and their functions
• Explore why leaves change color/why trees lose their leaves 
• Reading nonfiction texts about fall/trees, taking notes together, and focusing on what we think are the crucial parts 
• Comparing/contrast coniferous and deciduous trees

Social Studies:

• Continuing to talk about families
• What is a family?
• What makes families special?
• Are all families the same?
• Listening
• What makes a good listener?
• How do we become better listeners?

SPECIALS: (October 13- October 17)

Monday: Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Tuesday:  Art/Music (Day 3)

Wednesday:  No School!

Thursday:  No School!

Friday:  No School! 

MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every other Day 4! Bring back books by Friday (10/24)

COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am