Instructional Focus

This week we will be working on the following skills:

Math

We continue working with money. Students should be able to identify pennies, nickels, and dimes. This week we will look at how to add money. You can help your child at home by letting them use real money to solve their homework problems.

Reading

This week students will read "Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night." Our comprehension focus will be on comparing and contrasting. When we compare and contrast we look at how things are alike and how they are different.

Phonics

We have been exploring the different sounds that vowels make. Now we will look at the different sounds that consonants make. We will start this exploration by looking at the different sounds that the letter g can make.

The letter g has a hard and a soft sound which make the following sounds: hard g sound (guh): gap, goat; soft g sound (juh): gerbil, gym. Usually, a g sound is hard or soft depending on the vowel that follows it. Here's the general rule: When g meets a, o, or u, its sound is hard. When g meets e, i, or y, its sound is soft.

Grammar

We will continue working on sentences. In order to be considered a sentence the group of words must expresses a complete thought and have two parts: a naming part and an action part. The naming part tells whom or what the sentence is about; the action part tells what is happening. This week we will look at telling sentences and questions. A telling sentence tells something and ends with a question mark. A question asks something and ends with a questions mark.

Spelling

always, laugh, ready, saw, sure, bone, robe, these, rope, note, cute, close, hope, those, mule

Sight Words: your child should be about to read the following words:

already, mother, father, laugh, beautiful, even, quiet, year, straight, always, saw, ready, sure

Writing

We will continue looking at narrative writing. Please remind your child to use a capital letter at the beginning of their sentence and a punctuation mark at the end.

Social Studies

We will continue working on our Social Studies unit called “People and Places.”