First Grade
Reading and Language Arts
Please continue to study sight words at home.
We read a very popular story called If You Give A Pig A Pancake. The story is about a very demanding pig who visits a little girl one day. We reviewed strategies such as recognizing fantasy and reality as well as questioning, viewing categories, and how to read a recipe.
Please keep reading the books in the children's purple folders.
Spelling
Words for next week include: cup, frog, tree, cups, frogs, trees, gloves, birds
Math
We started our new chapter on
exploring the relationships between addition and subtraction through the use of concrete materials.
Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts
This week we started a new theme called, Family Time. Our story this week was Brothers and Sisters. It is a photo essay about the many variations of sibling relationships. We discussed verbs, vowel pairs, and making generalizations as we read.
Please continue to have your child read the leveled books that I am sending home with them.
Spelling
Words for next week include: who, many, a lot, our, cannot, here, were, friend, first, would, today, could
Math
We took our chapter test this week. We also started our new chapter on patterns and numbers to 1,000.
