Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Week of November 18-22, 2013

This Week's Objectives

Language Arts
Question of the Week: When does support from others help with a creative idea?
Comprehension Skills: author's purpose, compare and contrast, fluency
Story of the Week:  Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends
Conventions: verbs
Phonics: long /e/ using e, ee, ea, and y
Spelling Words: read, feet, easy, deep, seat, party, wheel, leave, windy, sleep, teeth, team
Writing: Animal fantasy stories comparing and contrasting characters

Math
-solving problems with unknown change
- developing strategies for solving addition and subtraction story problems
-retelling stories to match given equations
-considering a relationship between addition and subtraction
-investigation numbers that can and cannot be made into groups of two or two equal groups