Monday, February 4, 2008

Week of January 25th - February 1st

First Grade

Reading
New words this week include: must, fly, will
Review words include: went, could, there, any, was, where, four, she, again, yellow, where, so, out, soon, under, want, red, ride, white, find, here, jump, look, 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.
This week we read about a girl who finds a pig in her watermelon patch and she can't get rid of her. We also worked on summarizing and story structure. Please continue to work on sight words at home and read leveled readers.


Spelling
The children did a great job on their spelling tests this week! Words for next week include: eat,feet, he, me, mean, see, maybe, sheep

Math
This week we continued our chapter on number patterns and place value.

Second Grade
Reading
This week we began our new theme this week, Amazing Animals. Our first story is a fantasy called Officer Buckle and Gloria. We will focus on drawing conclusions and monitoring our reading. We will also talk about nouns and pronouns.
I will also be sending home leveled readers with your child. Please read these together at home.

Spelling
The children did very well on their spelling tests this week. We will not be having a spelling test next week due to the short week.

Math
We completed our chapter on double digit subtraction. On Tuesday we started the next chapter on telling time. Please practice this at home.