Wednesday, January 1, 2014

January 2-3

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had some time to rest, relax, and enjoy their friends and family!

We'll spend this short week reviewing our last reading lesson and covering a few math lessons.  We'll also start using new writing journals.  All the pages will now have lines!  We're ready to take our writing to the next level!

Here's what we'll cover:

Reading: Lesson 11 (Review)
  • Phonological Awareness: final sounds in words
  • Letter of the week: Gg and Ff
  • High-Frequency Word: here, this
  • Working on drawing conclusions and rereading when something is confusing
  • Robust Vocabulary: anxious, huddle, moans, productive, idle, scrumptious
  • Making posters
  • Working on developing and organizing our ideas in writing
  • Reading  The Little Red Hen and the Ear of Wheat by Mary Finch
Reading Homework
Guided Readers
Lesson 11 Red : focuses on letter Gg and Ff
Lesson 11 Blue: focuses on basic sentences using new sight words, here and this
Lesson 11 Green: focuses on more advanced sentences using here and this


Math: Unit 3
  • Unit 3: 
    • 3.8: Use a Balance Scale to Graph Weight
      • Objectives: make teen numbers using 5-groups; explore weight using a pan balance; graph to compare two weights
      • Vocabulary: balance, weight, heavy, heavier, light, lighter, up, down, predict, weigh
      • 3.9: Partners Through 6
        • Objectives: show partners of numbers 2 through 6; develop spatial concepts; visualize squares as sides of cubes
        • Vocabulary: cube, square, light, heavy, forward, backward
    • Math Homework: 
      • Monday: 
      • Tuesday: 
      • Wednesday: 
      • Thursday: 3.8 
      • Friday: 
    • Math Challenge (Optional)