October 1 - 5

Here is the schedule for this week and what we will be learning:

Reading - We are reading Thanks, Seth, Beth's Job and Flowers Grow. Your child will bring a reading slip home on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week. We will be working on the /th/ sound, high frequency words, details in a story, blends with s and nouns (people or places)

Math - We are beginning our chapter on subtraction.  We will do model subtraction, using symbols to subtract, subtracting all or 0 and taking numbers apart from 8 or less. On Friday, we will review those lessons.  We will be continuing with fast facts.

Writing - We started off the week drawing a real or pretend animal and then writing questions we would ask it.  We will continue with talking about seasons, writing to Mrs. Gaskill, drawing and writing a mouse and nouns.

Handwriting - O words, Aa, a words, Dd and Practice.

Phonics - We will introduce the following letters and sounds: m, e, ck and the final k spelling.

Spelling -  Pre-test on Wednesday and Post-Test Friday.

1. then
2. them
3. this
4. that
5. path
6. with
7. ten
8. get
9. said
10. was
11. orange 
12. purple