Sunday, November 11, 2012

Week of Nov 12-16, 2012

This Week's Objectives...


Language Arts: 
Unit 2 Review
Reading- reviewing comprehension skills, compare and contrast, cause and effect, facts and details, author's purpose, and summarizing
Conventions- reviewing nouns, proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, plural nouns that change spelling, and possessive nouns
Phonics-  review of r-controlled vowels, contractions, plurals, and words with long /a/ using a, ai, ay
Spelling Words- Review of high frequency words from last unit
said, break, pull, great, laugh, worse, above, there, whole, people, sign, scared, behind, they're, sorry
Writing- comparing and contrasting two characters, correcting run-on sentences, writing fluency

Math:
- representing numbers to 200
- identifying patterns in numbers
- representing ones, tens, and hundreds in different ways
- writing numbers to 200
- writing numbers in word form up to 99
*Reminder: Practice math cards that were sent home at conferences!

Social Studies:
-Colonial Times

Science: 
- living things and what they need
- how plants make food
- how plants make new plants
- studying fruit seeds