Week of October 1st

Important Dates:

September 24-28: Fall Break/No School

October 2nd: 2nd grade field trip to Fire Safety Village

October 10th- End of 1st 9 weeks

October 11th-Early Release

October 12th-Fall Festival

October 15th-19th-Conference Week

October 31st-Spirit Day/Fresh Fruit Day

Grammar: We will finish up Collective Nouns this week. Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people or things. Words like group, herd, and array are collective noun examples. You might not know it, but you encounter collective nouns in everyday speech. Collective nouns are words for single things that are made up of more than one person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

Spelling: We will be working on words that have initial blends. Initial blends are 2 consonants blending together at the beginning of the word. You can still hear each sound the word . You can practice at home by giving your student phrases and sentences to practice. You say the sentence, have the student repeat, then pound their hand for each word they hear as they repeat with you again, then have them write. Check for capital at the beginning of the sentence, stretch the words, space the words, and punctuation at the end. Green Words: drip, trap, grip, blush, drop, frog, plum, flash, trash, grab, glad, prop. Nonsense Words: brug, plat, grish, flum, twip, gwut, trush, frez prud. Red Words: their, out, have, there, use.

Reading: We will focus this week on summarizing and synthesizing story elements. Summarizing is relating the most important points in a text (or a portion of a text) in our own words. In fiction we consider the basic story elements – main characters, setting, plot and sometimes theme in a summary. In nonfiction we pull together the most important information about a topic in a coherent way.

Writing: This 9 weeks we will focus on narrative writing. Students will begin their next narrative writing piece 'I went on a field trip with my school'.

Math: We will focus this week on collecting data and creating graphs to show results and share information.

Social Studies: This week's focus will be on The Creek and Cherokee Native Americans. We will learn how they adapted to their environments, which tools they used, which Georgia region they lived in, what they grew on their land, what type of clothing they used, and the homes that they lived in.