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Reading:

Phonemic Awareness: Short Ee
Story: If you could go to Antarctica
Amazing Words: penguin, continent, whale, seal, Antarctica
Sight Words: go, here, from
Conventions: Pronouns I, me
Comprehension: character and setting
Writing: Main idea and nonfiction writing

Math:

Topic 8: Understanding Subtraction

8-3: Stories about Comparing
       - Students will compare two groups to find how many more or fewer
8-4: Problem Solving: Act it Out
       - Students will act out and solve subtraction word problems and record the answers
8-5: Using the Minus Sign
       - Students will use the minus sign to represent "take away" situations when recording subtraction
8-6: Finding Differences
       - Students will use the equal sign, subtract, and write the difference

Religion:

Lent books

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Reading:

Phonemic Awareness: Letter Gg (continue to practice blends at home too)
Readers Workshop: Character
Story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Conventions: Complete sentences (sentences begin with an uppercase letter, end with a punctuation mark, and have a naming part and action part)
Sight Words: one, two, three, four, five

Common Core standards we will cover:

CCSS Reading 1, CCSS Language 3, CCSS Speaking/Listening 1, CCSS Writing 2

100th Day

Here's a look at the fun we had on the 100th day and field day!

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We have moved on to one of my favorite units... Penguins!! This will be such a fun two weeks learning about penguins and celebrating Valentines Day. Don't forget to sign up for our Valentines Center Day which is next Tuesday from 9-11am!

 

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Reading:

 

Amazing words: woodland, nest, vale, hollow, comfortable, shadows

Sight words: one, two, three, four, five

Comprehension: sequence

Identifying complete and non-complete sentences

Big Book: "One Little Mouse"

*Consonant Blends (ex: -cr, -br, -gr, -tr, -sl, -bl, -gl, -fl)

CCSS Standards we will cover:

Foundational Skills 2.d; 2.e; 3.a; 2.c

Literature 1, 2

Informational Text 3

Speaking/Listening 1

Writing 8

Language 1.f, 2

 

Math:

 

We are working on Topic 7: Understanding Addition

7-1: Stories about Joining

        - "number story"; "join"; "in all"

7-2: More Joining

       - interpreting illustrations that show joining groups and write the corresponding numbers.

7-3: Joining Groups

       - "altogether"

       Determine how many there are altogether when two groups are joined

7-4: Using the Plus Sign

       - "add"; "plus sign"

7-5: Finding Sums

      - "equal signs;" "sum"

      identify and use the equal sign; add and write the sum

 

Common Core Standards we will cover:

K.OA.1; K.OA.2; K.OA.5