First Grade
Reading and Language Arts
This week in Reading we worked on rhyming, onset fluency, blending and identifying final and medial sounds. We also worked on our spelling words and sight words. On Friday we worked on a journal assignment and read a Fall book.
Math
This week we took our Chapter 4 Math test. The children did well on this. We also started Chapter 5 which works with adding numbers to 12 while working with various addition strategies. We used counting on, touch math and working with manipulatives.
Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts
We worked with the suffixes -s, -es, -ed and -ing. I also introduced the suffixes -est and -er, as well as two additional sounds of -ed, /d/ and /t/. We worked on vowels teams including: oa, ow, ou, ue, oe, ow, ou, ue, oo and ew. The children also used their journals this week and on Friday we played Bingo with vowel team words.
Math
This week we continued to practice adding 2-digit numbers with and without regrouping.
