Sunday, January 13, 2013

Week of January 14-18, 2012

 This Week's Objectives


Language Arts (Review Week)
Reading Comprehension Skills: author's purpose, drawing conclusions, comparing and contrasting, sequencing, fact and opinion

Reading Strategies: questioning, visualizing, summarizing, predicting, inferring

Writing: friendly letters, January poetry

Conventions: verbs with singular and plural nouns, verbs for past, present, and future, linking verbs
Phonics: vowel patterns for long /o/, /e/, and /i/, compound words, words with comparative endings


Math
-constructing and interpreting picture graphs
- planning a data collection project
-using comparative terms same, more, and fewer
-creating and solving comparison story problems


Science
-describing Earth's land and water
-changes on Earth


Social Studies
- Famous American: Martin Luther King Jr.