First Grade
Reading and Language Arts
Please continue to study sight words at home.
We read a several stories about butterflies this week. We focused on a non-fiction story called See How They Grow: Butterfly. This true story uses real photographs to help show us a butterflies development from an egg to adulthood.
Please keep reading the books in the children's purple folders.
Spelling
Words for next week include: checking, missed, filled, sleeping, landed, telling, bluffing, planted
Math
This week we started our new chapter on telling time. Our class focused on the difference between a second, minute and an hour. We also looked at the difference between the hour and minute hands.
Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts
This week we read a story called Jalapeño Bagels. This story is about a boy and his family and how they get ready for an important event at school. We also worked on contractions and verbs this week.
We also tried a recipe from the story. Please look for the Chango bar recipe that I will be sending home.
Spelling
Words for next week include: puppy, baby, lucky, happy, very, lady, funny, silly, many, only, cookie, me, bee
Math
This week we finished up our chapter on patterns and numbers to 1,000. Next week we will be starting our new chapter on geometry. We will identify shapes, learn about space shapes, and use pattern blocks to make new shapes.
