Instructional Focus

Math: Putting Together and Taking Apart

This week we will continue working on developing an understanding of base-ten numeration systems and place value concepts. We are studying word problems and learning the clue words that tell us if we should add or subtract.

Reading

This week we are continuing Theme 3 Around Town: Neighborhood and Community. Our story this week is Big Bushy Mustache. In this story Ricky wants to look more like his father so borrows part of a costume from school. After he loses it on his way home he learns a lesson about responsibility.

Our comprehension skill this week is problem solving and our comprehension strategy is predict/infer.

Phonics:

We will be working on· vowel pairs ow, ou and ways to decode these words in our reading such as: growling, loudest, shower, and thousand. We will also be working on suffixes -ly and -ful as in the words loudly, painful, lonely, graceful and quickly.

Grammar: Common Nouns

This week we will be working on one and more than one and when to just add -s or -es.

Sight Words

New words: family, children, school, behind, story

Review words: family, children, school, behind, story, eyes, soldier, kind, floor, very, straight

Writing: Functional

We will continue working on functional writing. Functional writing is a "how to" paper giving someone step by step directions on how to do something. We will be focusing on how to make a snowman this week and writing out the steps.

Science: Human Body

This week we will begin looking at the human body and how it works. We will be looking at our muscles and why they are important as well as other parts of our bodies.