Good morning! Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
- response to literature: continue with Making Cents (how coins are minted) to practice pulling information from text to use in our writing
- art with Mrs. Brundidge
- phonics: /gh/, /igh/, /ight/
- phonics: common words 14 - following, came, want, show, also, around, form, three, small, set, put, end, does, another, well
- phonics test: chapter 3
- phonics: sounds of y
- phonics: common words 15 - large, must, big, even, such, because, turn, here, why, ask, went, men, read, need, land
- power hour/daily 5: continued practice to become better readers, spellers, and comprehenders
- math: quadrilaterals, hexagons, pentagons, triangles, and cubes
- math: partitioning (beginning fractions)
Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
- opinion writing assessment - we have done two together, now can they do it on their own?
- response to literature: "Making Cents" (how coins are made)
- phonics: more practice with final /k/ sound - is it k, ck, or ke?
- phonics: digraph blends
- phonics: sentence structure - subjects and predicates, simple and compound
- phonics: adding suffixes to words with adjacent vowels
- phonics: common words 13 - great, where, help, through, much, before, line, right, too, mean, old, any, same, tell, boy
- math: continue to practice telling time
- Power Hour/ Daily 5: continue to practice becoming better readers, spellers, and comprehenders
Six-and-a-half weeks of instruction left to go! Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
- Opinion writing: What is your favorite season (Monday-partial multi-flow map, Tuesday-opening sentence and three reasons on flow map, Wednesday - add details to flow map, Thursday-closing sentence on flow map and oral rehearsal, Friday-write)
- daily 5/Power Hour: continued practice to become better readers, spellers, and comprehenders
- phonics: adverbs
- phonics: phonetic skill #5 (when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking)
- phonics: common word list #12
- phonics: spelling with -k
- phonics: digraph blends (a digraph that contains a third consonant - like /phl/ or /shr/)
- math: time to the half-hour
- math: time to the quarter-hour
- math: time to five minutes
- math: AM/PM
We hope that everyone had a nice and restful vacation! It is time to hit the ground running as we prepare for our final descent into third grade. The next several weeks will be very busy with instruction and assessment. We know that the weather is nice, and students are yearning to run and play, but it is crucial that they are in school and ready to learn for the next little while. We appreciate your support in getting them to school each and every day!
Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
- opinion writing: What is your favorite animal? - learning to use reasons and details in a logical and sequential manner to support your opinion
- phonics: adjectives - comparative and superlative
- phonics: common word list #11 - new, sound, take, only, little, work, know, place, year, live
- phonics: soft sounds of c and g
- phonics: adding suffixes to sneaky e words and single-syllable long vowel words
- phonics: adverbs
- Daily 5/Power Hour: continued practice in reading, spelling, and comprehension
- math: time - telling time to the hour, half-hour, and quarter-hour
