Thursday, September 27, 2012

Week of September 24th - 28th

2nd Grade Math

This week we started our chapter on Place Value.  We learned to identify values of digits in the tens and ones place.  We also concentrated on addition and subtraction facts. 

1st Grade Reading - Enrichment

This week we read the story - Raining Cats, Dogs and Other Animals
Vocabulary discussed in the story - dangled, experiment, glorious, parched, scattered, sopping, tournament

 

1st Grade - Tier 3

We have been reviewing our letters with the Jolly Phonics program.  This week we worke on the letters - s,a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e
We also read Animals Have Patterns - our Readers Theater story

 

2nd Grade Reading

This week we concentrated on poetry and read a book about a storyteller - Alma Flor Ada From A Family of Storytellers.  We also read several leveled books during guided reading. 

1st Grade Math

This week we concentrated on subtraction.  We have been working on solving problems using pictures and counting cubes.  We have also been concentrating heavily on our "teen" numbers. 

 

2nd Grade Tier 3

This week we worked on Lesson 1 and 2 of our Leveled Literacy Intervention.  We read two stories - The Little Red Hen and Things That Fly.  Keep an eye out for the yellow folder that comes home with your child everyday.