Nine-Week
Period Beginning:
January 29
Parents,
The following topics are being introduced to your
child during the next grading period. This list is for your information;
you may wish to discuss some of the topics with your child as they
are being presented in class. In addition, other material may be
covered as time allows.
Language Arts:
- Retelling a story
- Predicting
- Inflected endings
- Oral problem solving
- Compare and contrast
- Sequencing
- Main idea
- Cause and effect
- Realism and fantasy
- Initial and final Digraphs
- Author’s purpose
- Phonemic CVC and CVCe
- Compound words
- Acton words
- Present and past tense
- Verbs with singular and plural subjects
- Writing stories
- Writing facts
- Handwriting
- Singular possessives
- Long and short vowels
Math:
- Equivalent Names
- Using Fact Families
- Using Fact Triangles
- Using the Facts Table for subtraction and addition
- Working with Centimeters
- Pattern blocks
- “What’s My Rule?”
- The value of quarters
- Digital clocks
- Using the calculator
- Using Attribute Blocks
- Template Shapes
- Making Polygons
- Working with Spheres, Cylinders, and Rectangular Prisms
- Identify Pyramids, Cones, and Cubes
- Symmetry
Social
Studies/Science/Health:
- Biographies of B. Franklin, A. Lincoln, G. Washington, and G. W. Carver
- Economics
- Maps
- Citizenship
- Animals: characteristics, habitats, coverings
- Motion
Notes:
Reading to your child and / or having your child read daily is so important.
Thank you for all your support. |