Week 2 – September 13, 2021
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama
We have had a great start, and we are beginning to establish our routines. It is a wonderful class and I look forward to a fantastic school year.
Please make sure that your child comes to school each day with a fully charged chromebook. Please do not change the password on your child’s Trinity student account. or any other account that is setup by the school. At this grade level, I occasionally go in their accounts to help them. I truly appreciate your cooperation on this.
Below is a brief synopsis on what we will be covering this week. We will be going slowly in the beginning of the year, and gradually we will pick up the pace.
ELA: Our anchor text is A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech.We will be working on story structure and analyzing illustrations. Our target strategy is summarization. In phonics we will be focusing on short vowel a,e,i,o, and words with the VCCV (vowel consonant consonant vowel) pattern. The vocabulary words this week include principal, soared, strolled, worried, proud, announced, fine, and certainly. The vocabulary strategy we are working on is context clues. In grammar, we will be focusing on simple sentences (identifying both subjects and predicates). Our spelling words are crop, plan, thing, smell, shut, sticky, spent, lunch, pumpkin, clock, gift, class, skip, swing, next, hug, hospital, and fantastic. We are only having a spelling test this week.
Religion: The students are learning who God is and how we can know Him. Our prayer video this week is Church by Cochren & Company.
Social Studies: We are working on geography skills. We will be focusing on using maps and globes. Some of the vocabulary words we will be covering include political map, map legend, map key, scale, and compass rose.
Math: We are focusing on strategies to add three-digit numbers. We will be estimating to ensure that our answers are reasonable. We will be focusing on the following vocabulary words: round, compatible numbers, estimate, and Associative Property of Addition. Here is a link to the vocabulary words.
TEST and QUIZZES
Friday Spelling Test
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