The week’s learning objectives for October 17-21:
- Spelling:
- -ear words (PDF of Verse, Spelling, Reminders)
- Bible:
- Verse: Luke 5:15-16
- in class we are carrying on with the lessons on Moses’s life
- Literacy:
- Students have published their first stories of the year!
- Review of basic sentence and paragraph skills (complete sentences, ending marks, transition words, adding details.)
- Continue practicing types of sentences (facts, commands, questions, exclamations)
- Reading:
- Comprehension of text (focus points: plot, making predictions, character description)
- R-controlled words/vowels
- Plural nouns with -s
- Main idea and details
- Maths:
- Started a new unit which starts with skip counting (forward and backward), odd/even, greater than/less than. We continue working with math facts and students are encouraged to continue practicing with their 4’s flash cards at home.
- Social Studies:
- Globe skills (latitude, longitude, hemispheres, Equator, Meridian)
- Vocabulary: all the 7 continents and the 5 oceans (please check email and blog for links to websites with games and activities to help your child practice!)
- Science:
- Mammals and the key characteristics that distinguishes mammals from other species (ask your student to name at least 3 of them!).
The week’s Reminders and Updates:
*Weekend Journals need to come back to school every Monday (2A students are struggling a bit with this new habit!) Students write a minimum of five sentences either in a creative story or in description of their weekend. If students forget their specific notebook, they can just write it on a piece of paper.
*FBCS Spelling Bee is on Friday, October 21st at 12:30
*2A and 2B Fruity Fridays were a great success. Thank you kindly to all of you who contributed snacks and helped out 🙂
*Room Parents are meeting together after-school on Wednesday the 19th to discuss November’s International Night.
*Keep up with nightly Reading Log entries and daily math fact practice!
Thank you kindly,
Ms. Maurice and Ms. Mittelman