Happy Sunday! Tomorrow is our Read-a-thon, and we can't wait to see everyone dressed up as their favorite literary or historical character! We will be exploring all kinds of books and doing many after-reading activities.
Coming up this week:
Literature: We are continuing Frog and Toad Are Friends and will read chapters 2, 3, and 4 this week.
Spalding: 30 words in class this week – Test on Friday! Note: Monday's homework will be optional, and we will only test over Tuesday's and Wednesday's words.
Monday: came, Sunday, show, Monday, moon, yet, find, give, new, letter
Tuesday: take, Mr., Mister, after, thing, what, than, its, his, her
Wednesday: it’s, very, or, thank, dear, west, sold, told, best, form
Phonograms to practice: i, m, o, t, w, ew, oo, or, ow, th
Writing: Our narration and copy work exercises come from “Today is Monday” and “Old Mother Hubbard”.
Grammar: We will be reviewing the four types of sentences, learning about abbreviations and titles of respect, and introducing our adverb jingle!
Poem: “Thanksgiving Day” (Select 1 stanza to work on and memorize!)
We will also learn the poem “Solomon Grundy” at our Read-a-thon!
Idiom: “Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
Math: This will be a very exciting week in math! Students will be adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with one-digit numbers as we start learning all about place value. On Monday, during our read-a-thon we will get to conceptualize math in a new way as we learn from some great mathematical literature. Most exciting of all will be Wednesday when we will have our first round of math centers!
History: Students will experience the process of mummification first hand by using natron salt on an apple. We will create a hypothesis, and anticipate the results. We will read about the famous discovery of King Tutankhamen and learn more about his earthly reign as pharaoh.
Science: This week, students will review what they have learned about oceans and take a quiz on Wednesday. After that, we will begin our unit on Matter. The class will observe solids, liquids, and gases in bags and describe them. After discovering the properties of solids, liquids, and gases, the class will sort different items into those categories.
