August 29th - September 9th

READING:We are starting to read the story  "Henry and Mudge". It is a story about a boy and his dog  and what kind of activities they like to do together.    We are working on vocabulary, comprehension, story structure, sequence, and compare and contrasting. We will be working with Venn diagrams. In grammar, we are working on subjects and predicates. 

WRITING:
We will be working on personal narratives in writing and adding details to all of our writing.  We continue to work on writing  creative stories. We are starting to be creative in our SQUIGGLE stories each week. This is  where the students receive a squiggle mark, then have to draw something using the squiggle and then write about it! We are creating  some awesome writing in our journals and we are exciting to do so many writing projects!  We continue to work on writing Weekend Reports every Monday. We are focusing on writing a complete sentence with a capital letter, a complete thought, and an endmark. We are also learning to use graphic organizers to help with our prewrites. With every sentence we write, we try to think of one good detail sentence to add to our stories. 

SPELLING: 

There will be a spelling list in the red folder every 2 weeks. We will take our spelling test on the last Friday of our story. 

MATH:

We are starting Unit 1 this week. Addition and Subtraction skills will be worked on daily. We are working on  problem solving.We are also counting to 1000, skip counting, identifying coins, working on graphs, and looking for patterns.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

We are learning about making responsible and respectful choices to become a good citizen.
HANDWRITING: 
We are working on our letter formation for print. Please check the red folder for practice sheets coming home to extend learning and practice of handwriting skills.