Week of October 9-13

Grammar: This week's focus will be a review of the first 9 weeks skills.

Spelling: Spelling this week will focus on r-Controlled o syllable patterns. R-controlled a syllable is a type of syllable that changes the way a vowel sounds. It’s called an r-controlled syllable because the r controls the vowel sound. It is important to learn about r-controlled syllables because many words contain these sounds. Being able to recognize and read r-controlled syllables will allow you to read many more words. Here is the regular word list: .score, fort, horn, shore, short, thorn, before, forest, hornet. The high frequency words are 2nd grade words that need to be spelled correctly when writing. They are: began, don't, here, never, next, second, went. Some students have a modified list: sort, fork, cord, form, thorn, north, hornet. The sight words they should practice are: play, buy, high.

Reading: We will be starting Sequence of Events using signal words (first, second, next, last). Sequencing is one of many skills that contributes to students' ability to comprehend what they read. Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story — the beginning, middle, and end — and also to the ability to retell the events within a given text in the order in which they occurred. The ability to sequence events in a text is a key comprehension strategy, especially for narrative texts. Sequencing is also an important component of problem-solving across subjects.

Writing: This 9 weeks focus will be Informational Writing. Informational writing is a type of nonfiction writing that conveys information about something, which means it is factual. Many examples of informational writing can be found in newspapers, almanacs, and reference books.Another difference between informational writing and other forms of nonfiction is that it does not involve characters. Informational writing does not generally focus on a person's life in the way a biography does. Instead, it usually provides information about the natural or social world

Math: We will revisit place value this week. We will focus on skip counting, comparing, ordering numbers, identifying more and less, how to show numbers in different ways to 1,000, and also solving one step word problems.

Social Studies: We will begin learning about The Creek and Cherokee Native Americans. The two tribes of Native Americans lived in Georgia. The student should be able to describe the Georgia Creek and Cherokee Cultures of the past in terms of tools, clothing, homes, ways of making a living, and accomplishments by the end of the unit .

Important Dates for October:

October 12- Early Release Day

October 16-20- Conference Week/Early Release Day/Report Cards Go Home/Red Ribbon Day