First Grade
Reading and Language Arts:
New words this week include: find, here, jump, look
Review words include: new, eat, please, up, big, this, two, red, play, help, can, blue, came, is, did, make, for,to, me, in, no, yes, am, it, one, have, are, we, and, on, not, I, see, like, on, go, my, the, cat, at. The boys are continuing to read level 3 readers. This week we read three stories from our reading anthologies: Fluff is Missing, Go Away, Otto!, and Helping at Home.
Spelling:
The boys did great on their tests this week.
Words for next week include: get, men, ten, yes, red, pet, tent, bell
Math:
We will be finishing Chapter 4 on addition and subtraction this week. Please continue to help your children practice addition and subtraction at home. Use strategies such as counting dots with touch math, number lines and counting backwards.
Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts:
This week we started our new theme called Around Town: Neighborhood and Community. We will be reading six different stories about various neighborhoods. The first neighborhood we read about was Chinatown. The boys enjoyed learning about it. We will be working with nouns, digraphs and words with double meanings.
Spelling:
The boys worked hard on their spelling words this week. Words for next week include: of, do, to, what, write, myself, name, time, went, been, too, little
Math:
We will learn to estimate sums and decide when to regroup this week. We will use models to add with two digit numbers.
