Sunday, December 1, 2013

Week of Dec 2-6

Our Week's Objectives
Language Arts
Question of the Week: In what creative ways do we communicate?
Story of the Week: Dear Juno by Soyung Pak
Comprehension Skills: drawing conclusions and visualizing
Writing: friendly letters
Conventions: verbs with singular and plural nouns, prefixes
Phonics: long /o/ using o, oa, ow
Spelling Words: goat, hold, show, most, bowl, float, toast, ago, open, told, toad, slow

Math
-Characteristics of even and odd
-equal partners, equal teams
-patterns and developing fluency with skip counting
-coins and their values
-combining coins to a total of 50 cents
-coin equivalencies

Social Science
-our needs and wants
-many kinds of work
-good and trade
-producers and consumers