December 15 - 19
This will be the last week of instruction prior to winter break. Classes will resume on January 5th. We hope that everyone has a safe and peaceful holiday vacation.
Here is what we will be working on in English this week:
- Finishing up our snowman stories: the blue class needs to finish writing the final copy and then illustrate, the red class is working on illustrating
- writing a Santa tale given a prompt
- phonics: letters a, b, f, d, and g
- phonics: common word list #1 - the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it
- phonics: building consonant-vowel-consonant words
- phonics: nonsense consonant-vowel-consonant words
- comprehension strategy: ask someone to define the word
- comprehension strategy: cause and effect
- comprehension strategy: compare and contrast
- math: begin working on the standard algorithm (see below) for two-digit addition with regrouping
- on Friday we will have holiday rotations to learn about different holiday customs around the world
