Sunday, April 28, 2013

Week of April 29-May 3, 2013

Spring is finally here! Here are our objectives for the coming week:
Language Arts
Reading: compare and contrast, homophones, accuracy and appropriate fluency rate
Story of the Week: Just Like Josh Gibson by Angela Johnson
Phonics Skill: inflected endings
Spelling Words: tried, trying, planned, planning, liked, liking, skipped, skipping, heavier, heaviest, lighter, lightest
Conventions: using capital letters

Math
-review symmetry
-introduce fractions
-identify and represent one half, one third, one fourth, two thirds, and three fourths in geometrical shapes
-understand what numerator and denominator signify
-compare fractions using fraction strips
- write money amounts as fractions