Thursday, October 16, 2008

Week of October 14th - 17th

First Grade
Reading and Language Arts
We were busy this week in Reading. We worked on segmenting words, substituting words, adding and deleting phonemes and reading with expression.
We also reviewed the formations of the letters a - z and worked on sight words.

Math
This week we continued to work on subtraction. The students used counters, pictures, and symbols to explore the concept of subtraction. Please keep working on addition and subtraction with your children at home.

Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts
The second graders worked on segmenting words, substituting words, adding and deleting phonemes and reading with expression.
The also worked on vowel teams such as: ay, ai, ee, ea, ey.
Lastly we started on our journals. We will be writing in them three times a week.

Math
This week we worked on rounding numbers to the nearest ten. We also worked on skip counting and identifying patterns on a hundreds chart. They have been doing a great job on their homework assignments. Thank you for working with them at home!