Welcome to a new week!
Reading/Language Arts
This week’s story is Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend
Phonics Focus: Homophones/Words and Endings -er, est
Spelling words-meet, meat, week, weak, mane, main, tail, tale, be, bee, too, two, sea, see, threw, through
High Frequency Sight Words-boy, does, everyone, field, floor, found, into, their, toward, what’s
Our week’s Vocabulary words: knot, copy, planning, lonely, heavily, seriously, answered, guessed
Vocabulary Strategy- idioms
Grammar Goals: adding adjectives to our writing in order to add interest and detail….”color” your sentences with adjectives and your writing will be more interesting!
Fluency Fine-tuning- the importance of self-correcting as we read
Writer’s Workshop
*We will have a Reading and Spelling test on Friday*
Math-Chapter 8 continues
Measuring and Estimating with Inches and Feet
Science
Earth Day…is every day!
Who was Rachel Carson? How did she make a difference in our communities worldwide?
Social Studies-Unit 2 begins
All About Earth
Handwriting-the children are so excited to begin a new letter each day. I am so proud of how their cursive handwriting skills are developing! Through the use of cursive, their fine motor skills are strengthening and they will soon be able to write their names in full as we learn our uppercase cursive letters in the weeks ahead.
Review of lowercase cursive letters
Begin Uppercase cursive letters!
Religion
Book 7 Continues
The Widow’s Mite, Jesus Teaches About Prayer (The Lord’s Prayer), The Lost Sheep
God bless our week ahead.
Mrs. Ryan