Thursday, April 17, 2008

Week of April 14th - 18th

First Grade

Reading and Language Arts
Please continue to study sight words at home.
We did not introduce a new reading theme this week due to our unit of study on chicks. Next week we will be reading a story called When I Grow Old With You. This is a story about the special bond between a grandfather and grandchild.
Please keep reading the books in the children's purple folders.

Spelling
Words for next week include: by, my, cry, try, fly, why, pry, multiply

Math
This week we learned about probability. We also started on our next chapter and worked with measurement.


Second Grade

Reading and Language Arts
This week we read a story called Thundercake. This is a story about a little girl who is afraid of thunderstorms. We focused on sequence of events, base words, and the verbs is, was and were.
Please continue to read the books that I have been sending home with the children.

Spelling
Words for next week include: rainforest and review words

Math
We continued our work with fractions this week. We will explore fractions that name more than one part and work to identify fractions that are part of a group.