CURRICULUM FOCUS

Math: Putting Together and Taking Apart Unit

This week we will be starting a new unit in Math. We will be working on developing an understanding of base-ten numeration systems and place value concepts.

Reading

This week we are continuing Theme 3 Around Town: Neighborhood and Community. Our story this week is Big Bushy Mustache. Our comprehension skill this week is problem solving and our comprehension strategy is predict/infer.

Phonics:

We will be working on· vowel pairs ow, ou and ways to decode these words in our reading such as: growling, loudest, shower, and thousand. We will also be working on suffixes -ly and -ful as in the words loudly, painful, lonely, graceful and quickly.

Grammar: Common Nouns

This week we will be working on one and more than one and when to just add -s or -es.

Spelling

The words are as follows: Please remember there will be 2 sentences dictated in class on Friday.

family, children, school, behind, story, town, house, sour, frown, clown, found, mouse, could, should, around

Sight Words

New words: family, children, school, behind, story

Review words: family, children, school, behind, story, eyes, soldier, kind, floor, very, straight

Writing: Functional

We will continue working on functional writing. Functional writing is a "how to" paper giving someone step by step directions on how to do something. We will be focusing on how to make a snowman this week and writing out the steps.

Science: Human Body

This week we will begin looking at the human body and how it works. We will be looking at our muscles and why they are important as well as other parts of our bodies.