Week of 9/19-9/23

Important Dates to Remember:

September 20th-Chick-fil-A Spirit Night

September 22nd-Day of Peace

September 26th-30th-Fall Break/No School

For the coming up week Mrs. Plomaritis will be visiting our classrooms to talk about stranger safety.

Our Learning Adventures for the Week:

Phonics- The spelling pattern we will focus on the long o digraph. You can tell that a word follows the pattern when the vowel says the long o sound. Some words will even have 2 vowels together to make the long o sound! Spelling words to practice at home this week are: float, doe, grown, boat, shown, toe, below, yellow, toenail, and narrow. Please practice other words that follow this pattern as well. Our spelling dictation test will have a mixture of the practiced spelling words, as well as words we will have practiced during instruction time to see your child's application of the pattern.

Reading- We will continue analyzing the characters in a story. We can watch how the characters change in a story by looking at their feelings, actions, what they are saying, and thoughts. We will also continue using the visualization strategy. This involves students creating mental pictures of what is being read.

Grammar- The focus for the mentor sentence this week is compound words. A compound word is two words that are joined together to create a new meaning Look for compound words during the week at home.

Writing- We will continue writing about our small moments this week. A small moment is when we take a specific part of a memory and write about it. For example instead of writing about a whole vacation we encourage the students to pick a small moment from the trip to focus on; that may be a favorite activity that they did or it could be how they got there. The teachers will model story writing organization so the students can have complete stories with a main idea, lots of details, and a good ending or closing. By the end of the week, the students will have produced a writing piece of their own!

Math- Money!! We will be working on word problems with money. Some students are still struggling on identifying coins so please continue to review coins at home. Counting money involves skip counting so that can be incorporated in reviewing as well.

Social Studies- We are learning about Creek and Cherokee Indians and where they lived in Georgia. We will be doing some fun projects the week after fall break that will include the Creek and Cherokee Indians.