Week of 12/3-12/7

Reading- In small groups we are reading Todd's Box out of our Harcourt book and working on our sight words. In listening groups we are listening to A New and Improved Santa.

Math- We are working on subtraction and drawing pictures to solve word problems. In small groups we are working on adding and subtracting 10 to any given number. We are working on your student mentally adding or subtracting 10 and understanding the value of 10.

Science- This week we are doing a hands on activity called Will it Grow, to learn about living and nonliving things. We have currently placed different objects in water to see if any of them will grow. We are observing our materials every day to see if anything sprouts up.

Spelling-For the next two weeks we will be reviewing the short /a/ sound. We will have more words this week because it is a review week.
This weeks spelling words are:
      1. van
      2. and
      3. an
      4. has
      5. after
      6. am
      7. flat
      8. than
      9. hand
    10. add
    11. cat
    12. man
    13. at
    14. can
    15. ran
    16. fast
    17. last

Sentence Dictation:
          A man has a cat that ran fast.