Week of August 27th

Grammar: This week focus will be on Plural nouns. A plural noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea. This weeks focus will be mainly on making regular nouns plural, by adding ‑es, & ies to the end. Example: bunch-bunches, berry-berries

Spelling: We will be working on consonant digraphs-single syllable. A consonant digraph is a combination of two consonant letters that form a single consonant speech sound (technically known as a consonant phoneme). Sometimes the combination results in one letter becoming silent, but many times the pairing produces a unique sound that neither letter would form on its own. Practice your words at home and also practice creating other consonant digraph words. You can make up nonsense words too. Give 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: chop, rash, chat, shot, chip, fish, that, mash, path, whip, thin, when. Nonsense Words: zoth, cheg, chut, shap, nith, whip, vish, poch, dosh. Red Words: she, you, which, put, with.

Reading: We will focus this week on becoming a fluent reader. We will learn about speed, pacing, fast, slow, and varied speeds of fluency. At home you can reinforce this by reading with your child and discussing why it is important to become a fluent reader and how to become one as well. While you are reading model for your child on what the speed or pace should be.

Writing: This 9 weeks we will focus on narrative writing. We will continue our OUCH! narrative piece this week and continue working on 6+1 trait writing skills.

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.

Important Dates:

August 29: Early Release Day/Spirit Wear/Fresh Fruit Day

September 3: No School/Labor Day

September 5: Progress Reports Go Home

September 12: Picture Day

September 19: Spirit Wear/Fresh Fruit Day

September 24-28 Fall Break/No School