Week of September 23-27, 2013

Language Arts

Question of the week: How does exploration help us find answers?

Story of the week: The Strongest One
Comprehension Skill: understanding the features of a drama

Phonics Skill:  consonant digraphs

Spelling Words: that, wish, patch, when, what, math, them, shape, whale, itch, chase, bunch, gone together, often

Conventions: Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences

Writing: Play Scene

Math

~retelling and modeling the action of subtraction
~subtracting from 30

~recording strategies for solving + and - story problems

~solving story problems

~doubling a quantity

~using rectangular arrays to model doubling

~working on fluency with doubles addition combinations