December 14-18

Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: phonetic skill #5 (two vowels walking, the first one does the talking)
• phonics: assessment (soft c & g, adding suffixes, adverbs, and phonetic skill #5)
• phonics: spelling with -k
• reading: continuing to close read A Chair for my Mother (objectives: describe the overall structure of a story, describe how characters respond to major events and challenges, use information gained from the words in a print text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, identify and understand the central message in a text)
• writing: continue with narrative writing
• Holiday sing-along - Friday @ 8:30 AM.
• Holiday rotations - Friday 12:45-2:25.  We will be learning about holiday customs in Italy, Germany, Israel, and Mexico.

Have a safe and happy holiday!

December 7-11

I am so sorry for neglecting the blog!  Things have been very hectic lately, and to make matters worse I have been a bit under the weather.  Cold and flu season has definitely arrived!  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: soft c & g
• phonics: adding suffixes to CVCe (consonant-vowel-consonant-e) and CV words
• phonics: adverbs
• reading: begin A Chair for my Mother (objective: identify and understand story structure)
• reading: compare A Chair for my Mother with Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday.
• writing: begin working on narrative writing (objective: write a narrative that clearly describes the order of story events)
• power hour: continued practice becoming better readers, spellers, and comprehenders.

We will have our annual holiday music program on Monday @ 1:30 (for grades 1 & 2 - grades 3, 4, & 5 will be on Tuesday, and K will be next week).  Hope to see you there!