This week we will be working on the following skills:

Math

This week we will continue looking at addition and subtraction word problems. Please remember that each week we will have a timed drill on addition facts. You can help your child with this at home by using flash cards to practice the facts.

Reading: Around the Pond: Who’s Been Here?

Our comprehension focus will be on classifying and categorizing. When you classify, you group together several things that have something in common. When you tell how parts of the group are alike, you categorize them.

This week’s comprehension strategy is: monitor and clarify. When readers monitor and clarify they stop and make sure the meaning of what they have read is clear. They also stop to indentify words that they are unfamiliar with and sentences and phrases that need clarification. Correct utilization of this strategy means that students reread, look at the pictures, and read ahead if the meaning of a story doesn’t make sense.

Phonics: Double Consonants

We have been exploring the different sounds consonants make. This week we will look at words with double consonants. Double consonants are words where the consonant is doubled. For example: begged, bottles, collect, common, correct, different, hugged, jelly, latter, and lesson.

Grammar: Sentences -- Exclamations

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 exclamations. An exclamation shows strong feeling or emotion and ends with an exclamation mark.

Spelling

across, great, water, because, around, bell, off, mess, add, hill, well, egg, will, grass

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

Around, caught, because, water, across, brother, great, stand, been, found, front

Writing: Narrative

We will continue looking at narrative writing. This week we will continue working on a piece that we started last week telling about a family vacation. Please remind your child to use a capital letter at the beginning of their sentence and a punctuation mark at the end.

Science: Properties of Matter

In science we will begin exploring the properties of matter. This week we will explore how objects can be described based on their physical attributes.