Week of September 16-20, 2013

Language Arts

Question of the Week: What can learn by exploring the desert?

Story of the Week: A Walk in the Desert

Comprehension Skills:  Main Idea and Details

Phonics: inflected endings -ed and -ing
Spelling Words: dropped, dropping, excited, exciting, lifted, lifting, hugged, hugging, smiled, smiling, talked, talking

Conventions: declarative and interrogative sentences

Writing: brief report

Math

- finding missing addends to make 10

-recording equations

-develop fluency with numbers that make 10 and additions sentences with +1 and +2

-setting time one hour ahead

-visualizing, retelling, and modeling additions situations

-making predictions about data

-counting by groups of 10

Science

-exploring the desert

-habits of desert animals

Social Studies

-communities and families

-fluency with vocabulary: urban, suburban, rural, timeline, guardian