First Grade
Reading and Language Arts
Please continue to study sight words at home.
This week we read a biography about Johnny Appleseed. We also learned about the life cycle of an apple tree. We reviewed strategies for making predictions and inferences and learned how to read a time line.
Please keep reading the books in the children's purple folders.
Spelling
Next week we will be working on chick words.
Math
This week we continued our chapter on telling time. We worked on telling time to the hour and half an hour. We also worked with using calendars.
Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts
This week we read a story called Carousel. This is a story about a girl who is disappointed when her birthday party turns into a bad day. We made inferences as we read and we talked about verbs, past and present.
Please continue to read the books that I have been sending home with the children.
Spelling
Words for next week include: batted, running, clapped, stopped, getting, shopping, stepped, hugging, pinned, sitting, that, shop
Math
This week we will started our new chapter on geometry. We identified shapes, learned about space shapes, and used pattern blocks to make new shapes.
