February 6, 2012

Dear Parents,

Another busy week ahead as we continue with our informational writing.  We have a fun activity planned this week!

Please click on the page links on the right to see the Standards you can review with your child for each curriculum area covered in the third nine weeks.

This week we will be working on the following:

Math:  Time (hour and half hour only) .  Addition to 18.  Counting coin combinations to 75 cents and $1.  Purchasing items up to $1

Ongoing: Revision of these concepts and skills - Fact Families (eg. related facts make a fact family eg. 3+2=5, 2+3=5, 5-3=2, 5-2=3) Review subtraction to 12 - concept and vocabulary (subtract, take away, minus, how many left?). Review Place Value - identifying tens and ones in a given number (For example: 26 is 2 tens and 6 ones),continuing simple addition to 12 (no regrouping). Using the ‘Counting on’ strategy to add two numbers (put one number in your head and count on to find the sum), adding zero to a number and adding doubles (4+4+8, 3+3+6 etc...) Math problem solving, graphs, days of the week and months of the year. Counting coin combinations up to 30 cents (pennies, nickels and dimes), skip counting in 5's and 10's. Counting combinations of bills up to $20.  Missing addends ( 3 + _  = 7 or 5 + 3 = 2 + _ )  Fractions (whole, half, fourths)

Literacy -  R-controlled vowels (ar, er, ur, ir, or)

Ongoing:  Identify verbs and using them correctly.  Pronouns (it, him, her, his, hers, you, I, them, they)Responding to stories and poems, initial letter sounds, short and long vowels,  antonyms (opposites such as happy and sad, tall and short). Synonyms (words that means the same thing but are spelled differently such as big and large, sad and unhappy). Root or base words (look is the root/base word of looking, looked and looks.  Play is the root/base word of the word playing, played and plays).  Identify long vowel sounds (rake, bike, woke,tube). Learn the rule - when two vowels go walking the first does the talking - for example meat, rain, road, reed.  Silent 'e' as in cake, note, ride, use.  Writer's Workshop - Write a creative narrative.  Identify the beginning, middle and end of a story.  Nouns (name of a person, place or thing), adjectives (describing words).  Writer's workshop - writing a journal entry (personal narrative), writing a letter. Identifying a complete sentence (capital letter at beginning, punctuation at the end, tells a complete idea or thought and must be written legibly with finger spaces). Having a good beginning when writing (One sunny morning, Last Saturday, Once upon a time, In the winter etc...) Narrative story elements - identify the main character(s) and the setting. Identify the problem in a story and how the problem was solved (the solution) .

Science - Parts of a plant

Handwriting - Letter Vv

Reminders:

Please check red folders daily.

Homework folders due on Friday.

Media Center on Friday....return library books!

Spelling Quiz on Friday!