March 22-26
Spelling words: house, down, found, out, clown, shout, towel, crown, ground, crowded
HF words: always, arms, body, eight, ready, seven, warm
In skills block we will also practice deleting and substituting phonemes in oral activities; work with the/ou/ sound spelled ou and ow as in cow and house; present tense verbs; inflected endings -s, -ed, and -ing; and, practice dividing words into syllables.
In Reader's Workshop our targeted skill is identifying the topic, main idea, details and summarizing a story. We also will begin an Author's Study on Ezra Jack Keats. The author's study will continue into our Writer's Workshop where we will begin a new genre, Response to Literature. In the response to literature genre of writing the students will respond to a story by retelling the main events. We will look at the story structure and use graphic organizers to help us retell the story. The students will also write evaluative statements about a story and give reasons for their opinions. They also will be expected to write about connections that they have to a story and write about comparisons between two books by the same author.
In Math Workshop we will continue exploring numbers and number combinations The students will use their growing understanding of number to solve a variety of addition and subtraction story problems, while they learn to recognize and interpret addition and subtraction situations, choose and carry out strategies for solving the problems, and record their solution strategies clearly.
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