Off to a Great Start!

Third Grade-

We will begin our Writer's Workshop talking about ideas and topics for our writing. We will also review the steps of the writing process as we learn about descriptive writing. Our vowel pattern of the week is the sound of long 'a' as in the word "page".  In math we are learning about place value and number sense. We will be writing numbers in different forms and learning to identify and read numbers through the ten thousandths place.

Second Grade-

Our vowel pattern this week is the sound of short 'e'. We will be reading and spelling many words with the short 'e' sound, including making a 'treasure chest' of short 'e' words. We have been learning about the parts of a story in guided reading by using vocabulary words, such as 'fiction', 'title', and 'table of contents'. In math we are learning about the different ways to represent two digit numbers.

First Grade-

We have been learning about the sound of short 'a'. We will make a short 'a' word wheel shaped like a "cap" as we learn to decode short 'a' words containing three letters. In math we are learning about addition and how to form number sentences.