February 11 - 15

Reading: We will be reading The Missing Cake, Flake the Missing Hamster and Three Reasons Why Pets are Great! We will be working on the a consonant e sound, high frequency words (around, found, near, tired, might, open, gone, hears), problem/solution and -ane, -ade.

Math: We will be doing Lesson 8.6, focusing on ways to expand numbers. We will then begin to review for our Chapter 8 test on Thursday.

Writing: Lesson 21 - How Many and Writing a Play, Draw and Write a Penguin, Valentines Day

Handwriting: Numbers, Days of the Week and Letters

Phonics: We haven't had a lot of time for this! We are still trying to get in the vowel y and er.

Language Arts: I found some new resources that will get us talking about language arts. I will start to incorporate this in our week.  We will be working on identifying and making a sentence and word order.

Spelling: Pre-Test Wednesday, Post-Test Friday

1. came
2. game
3. gate
4. late
5. lake
6. take
7. day
8. play
9. four
10. place
11. him
12. his

Social Studies: What is a Globe?

Homework: They will bring their reader home Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They will have reading and math homework Monday - Thursday!

We will be doing Valentines projects this week as well!

February 4 - 8

Reading: We are reading Kids Play, Ways People Live and Houses. We will be working on the long a sound made by ay and ai, high frequency words (cool, dry, four, holes, move, place, warm), cause and effect, phonograms -ail and -aid and taste, smell, sound and feel.

Math: We will be doing lessons 8.1 - 8.5. These lessons focus on 10 and more, read and record numbers to 20, tens, tens and ones to 50 and tens and ones to 100.

Writing: We will be making a book for McKayren, Lesson 20, which focuses on the taste, smell sound and feel words and describing.

Handwritng: Practice, Application, # Words and #

Phonics: Vowel Y Part 2 (We have fallen behind), er, igh

Spelling:
Pre-Test Wednesday, Post-Test Friday

1. day
2. say
3. play
4. plain
5. rain
6. wait
7. feet
8. me
9. door
10. told
11. has
12. her

Science: Winter Play

Homework: They will bring their reader home on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They will have reading homework Monday-Thursday and math homework Monday-Friday.

Don't forget to be working on their valentine box! It is due the 7th! 

February speaking goes home this afternoon. They have to research an American symbol and tell us 4 facts about it. This information can come from a book, Internet or a family member. This will be due the 22nd!