Sunday, October 6, 2013

Week of Oct 7-10

Language Arts

Question of the week: How can we help each other in dangerous situations?
Story of the week: Tara and Tiree, Fearless Friends

Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect, features of a literary nonfiction
Phonics Skill:  r-controlled vowels
Spelling Words: hard, born, horse, before, more, smart, farm, porch, corn, chore, score, part (Test will be Thursday, Oct 10th)
Conventions: Nouns
Writing: Narrative Nonfiction



Math

~building fluency with subtraction facts
~attending to features of 3-D shapes
~drawing 3-D shapes
~identifying 3-D shapes by number and shape of faces
~combining 3-D shapes to make a whole
~building fluency with doubles addition combinations


Social Studies

~naming our continent, country, state, town, and street
~Vocab: location, state, country, borders, continent