Week of August 26th

Important Dates:

August 28th-Early Release/Spirit Wear

September 2nd-Holiday/No School

September 3rd-Bruster's Spirit Night

September 6th-Progress Reports

September 11th-Spirit Day

September 14th-East Cobber Parade

September 18th-Picture Day

September 20th-Power of Peace Day

September 23rd-27th-Fall Break/No School

Grammar: We will continue learning about Plural nouns this week. A plural noun is a word that indicates that there is more than one person, animal place, thing, or idea. When you talk about more than one of anything, you're using plural nouns. When you write about more than one of anything, you usually use the same word, simply adding an s, es, or ies to the end.

Phonics: We will be working on Initial Blends. An initial blends is 2 consonants blending together at the beginning of the word; you can still hear each sound) Examples of initial blends: drip, trap, grip, blush, drop, and frog. Examples of initial blends nonsense words: brug, plat, grish, flum, twip, gwut. Red words for the week are: are, from, put, and do. Please practice red words at home. Red words do not follow learned patterns or rules. Therefore it is important to memorize how to spell them. We do not sound these words out. We identify them by letter names. Example: was w-a-s not /w/ /u/ /z/. Practice at home writing the words in fun ways, tracing them, or even jumping them out.

Reading: We will be learning about analyzing characters. Character analysis is when you evaluate a character's traits, their role in the story, and the conflicts they experience. Authors will also reveal character traits, which are a character's behaviors, motivation, personality types, and their relationships with others throughout the story.

Writing: We will continue working on our OUCH story this week. We will learn how to edit and also write a final draft.

Math: We will learn how to add and subtract within 20. We will learn different strategies like fact families, count on/count back, doubles and near doubles. A fact family is a group of math facts using the same numbers. In the case of addition/subtraction, you use three numbers and get four facts. For example, you can form a fact family using the three numbers 10, 2, and 12: 10 + 2 = 12, 2 + 10 = 12, 12 − 10 = 2, and 12 − 2 = 10. Count Back is generally used when they are taking away numbers that are less than 10. It is being able to count back ‘x’ amount to find the answer. (Always counting the first number in their heads or counting the amount of jumps they have done.) Counting up is when the numbers are closer together and you are starting at the smaller number and counting up to the other. The children need to make sure that they are again counting the amount of jumps they are completing in the process. A doubles strategy is to count by doubling a given number. Double plus one facts are based on knowing doubles first, then just counting on one. This allows students to answer questions in which two adjacent numbers, such as 4 and 5, are added: Double 4 = 8, so 4 + 5 = 8 + 1 = 9.

Social Studies: We will focus on locating and comparing the regions and rivers of Georgia. The state of Georgia extends from the Atlantic Ocean into the Blue Ridge Mountains. The state is divided into five regions based on its physical geography. The regions are the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont Region, the Blue Ridge Region, the Valley and Ridge Region, and the Appalachian Plateau.