Saturday, November 9, 2013

Week of November 11-15, 2013


Language Arts: 
Unit 2 Review
Reading- reviewing comprehension skills, compare and contrast, cause and effect, facts and details, author's purpose, and summarizing
Conventions- reviewing nouns, proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, plural nouns that change spelling, and possessive nouns
Phonics-  review of r-controlled vowels, contractions, plurals, and words with long /a/ using a, ai, ay
Spelling Words- review of high frequency words from unit 2
said, break, pull, great, laugh, worse, above, there, whole, people, sign, scared, behind, they're, sorry
Writing- comparing and contrasting two characters, correcting run-on sentences, writing fluency


Math:
- fluency with near doubles facts 
-visualizing and modeling story problems
-strategies for addition to 45
-reordering numbers in a subtraction sentences
-developing strategies for subtraction
-story problems with unknown change
example: ( 17 - ? = 9 )