October 14th-18th

What has eight legs and a lot of people are scared of? SPIDERS! This week was all about spiders. We read and discussed Spiders by Laura Marsh. We described characteristics of a spider. What kind of story is this? Is it fiction or nonfiction? How can we tell? In writing, we gave our opinion on if spiders would make good pets or not. 

Vocabulary from the book:
egg sac: a silk pouch that protects and holds spider eggs
fang: a biting mouth part of a spider or a large, sharp tooth in other animals
prey: an animal that is eaten by other animals
venom: poison

I enjoyed getting to talk with everyone at conferences! Thank you for your continued support in and out of the classroom! 

Please look at the columns labeled Q2 on your child's report cards to see what we will be teaching this quarter!

For reading and phonics students will need to:

• Identify all upper and lowercase letters
• Recognize rhyming words by listening to sets of words
• Produce all 23 consonant sounds
• Produce 3-5 vowel sounds
• Read 25 or more sight words
• Read at a level B

For writings students will need to:

• Write simple sentences that include grade appropriate sight words and phonetically spelled words. 
• Handwriting: Print 23 upper and lowercase letters with consistency, accuracy and independence.
• Recognize and name punctuation (period, question mark and exclamation point)
• Consistently write letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds.
• Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (-ed, -s, un-, pre-)

For math we will be moving into/continuing: 

Counting to 100
Writing numbers to 20
Counting objects to 20 in a line, circle and array and up to 10 objects scattered
Comparing objects and numbers up to 10
Describe several measurable attributes of an object, such as length or weight.  For example, a student may describe a book as, “This shoe is heavy! It is also really long!"
Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/”less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.
Continuing to Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers in each category and sort the categories by count.

For Social Studies: We discussed Columbus Day:

Describe Christopher Columbus and why he is remembered (Columbus Day).
Compare similarities and differences of life today to life in the time of Christopher Columbus.

Coming up in Social Studies:

Recognize who Veterans are and why we celebrate them on Veterans Day.
Identify the bald eagle as an American Symbol.
Explain positive character traits of veterans.
Learn how American culture celebrates Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day and how others celebrate in their cultures.
Students will be introduced to historical events and figures within a given holiday.
Students will learn about needs and wants.

Coming up in Science:

Motion, students will:

-Understand that things move in different ways and that gravity affects objects. 

-Activities in a unit on motion and gravity should give them context for the two concepts and stepping stones for additional knowledge and understanding in subsequent years. Simple concrete explanations of gravity and motion are appropriate, and may be addressed with the specific examples in the standards.

Day and Night Sky, students will: 

-Examine the characteristics of day and night sky and how one changes into the other in a 24 hour cycle. 


-Focus on the simple changes from night to day and day to night, as well as the main objects in the sky – the sun and moon. 

Letters and Sight Words of the Week 2019-2020

Date	Letter/Blend/Digraph	Sight Words
August 1	FIRST WEEK
August 5
August 12	Short I	I, it, is
August 19	M	am, and, an
August 26	Short A	a,  as, do
September 3	S	so, see, me
September 9	T	to, the, my
September 16	N	not, on, no
September 23	FALL BREAK
September 30	Short O	at, in, will
October 7	F	he, she, we
October 14	P	said, saw, was
October 21	C (hard and soft)	can, came, come
October 28	H	his, help, her
November 4	B	big, by, be
November 11	Short U	but, up, us
November 18	R	ran, run, him
November 25	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
December 2	Short E	when, then, well
December 19	G (hard and soft)	go, give, get
December 16	D	did, had, has
January 6	W/Wh	what, were
January 13	L	like, let, look
January 21	J	put, out, now
January 27	K	must, into, all
February 3	Y	your, you, yes
February 10	V/Z	very, love, of
February 17	FEBRUARY BREAK
February 24	Q	want, went, who
March 2	X	little, have, with
March 9	Bossy R (ar, or, ir, ur, er)	are, for, from
March 16	Long A	ate, make, say
March 23	Long E	please, eat, here
March 30	Long I	Find, fly, why
April 6	APRIL BREAK
April 13	Long O	home, going, this
April 20	Long U	new, some, they
April 27	OO	soon, good, too
May 4	OU/OW	down, our, how
May 11	Sh,Th,Ch	there, where
May 18	LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

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