Friday, November 9, 2007

Week of November 5th - 9th

First Grade

Reading: New words this week include: up, big, this. Review words include: 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 2 readers. We will be moving on to level 3 soon. Next week we will be reading three stories: The Trip, At the Aquarium, and Why The Sun And The Moon Live In the Sky.

Spelling: Once again the boys did great on their spelling tests! Words next week include: trip, grab, crab, trap, drip, grin

Math: This week we worked on the basic fact strategies including: counting on, doubles, near doubles and counting back.

Second Grade

Reading: This week we read another nature story called Around the Pond. Vocabulary words included: bank, crater, edge, moss, path and shallow. We also worked with consonant clusters and words that have double consonants. Next week we will be reading two stories about Owls.

Math: We continued to work with money. We compared sets of coins and showed amounts equivalent to a half a dollar. We will also explore the value of a dollar and learn to show it in many different ways.

Spelling: Next week will be a review week for spelling. Words include: these, use, swim, glad, club, all, bone, cute, next, brave, add, mess, egg, hope, trip, stone, lost, off, grass, hill

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