Tuesday, January 21, 2014

January 21 - 24

Reading- Unit 2 Week 5 {Homework will go home Tuesday.}

Story Title- Life in the Forest

Genre- Fiction

Amazing Words- environment, thrive, slimy, capture, require, inhale, sludge, and creature

Spelling Words-
cube   cute   flute   huge   June   mule   rude   rule   tube   use   water   under

Word Wall Words-
around   grow   find   under   food   water

Language- We will focus singular and plural nouns this week but will continue to review special titles, proper nouns, common nouns, verbs, adjectives, complete sentences, subjects and predicates of sentence, declarative sentences, interrogative sentences and exclamatory sentences.

Math Chapter 8- We will begin Chapter 8 Tuesday and I plan to test around February 6th.


Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Happy New Year!

Oh how I have missed my sweet firsties!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Happy, Happy New Year!! 

Reading- Unit 2 Week 3
Homework will go home Wednesday

Story Title- Who Works Here?
Genre- Expository Text
Amazing Words- citizen, law, earn, branch, patrol, community, leader, and headquarters

Spelling- We will still plan to test Friday. Start studying today!

Spelling Words- bike, dime, hide, ice, kite, like, ride, smile, time white, who, and work

Word Wall Words- live   who   out   work   people

Language- We will focus on special titles this week but will continue to review proper nouns, common nouns, verbs, adjectives, complete sentences, subjects and predicates of sentence, declarative sentences, interrogative sentences and exclamatory sentences.


Math Chapter 7- Greater than/Less than and Compare Numbers. We have talked a little about this in the past. The children know the alligator always eats the greater number. I tentatively plan to test Friday, January 17th.