September 9th- September 13th

Question of the week: What do pets need?

Language Arts Connection: Nouns in sentences; Verbs in sentences and adjectives or describing words.

Writing: Adding nouns to sentences and being able to pick nouns out of a sentence. Adding verbs to sentences and being able to pick verbs out of a sentence. Demonstrate capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing. Using adjectives to describe our nouns. Use end punctuation for sentences. 

Reading: We will be reading the story "Sam, Come Back" and discuss characters and setting, and major events in a story using key details.

Math: Addition-defining the terms plus, equals, addition sentence, sum. 

Spelling/Phonic- short /a/, final /ck/

This week we will start 3 different spelling groups your child will be assigned to a group either Ruby, Emerald, or Diamond. If you have questions on which group your child is in please feel free to ask. Most of the words this week will be a review but this week we will be adding a dictation sentence. Students will need to write the sentence on the test with capital letter at the beginning and correct punctuation at the end. We have been working on sentence structure and will continue this week, having a sentence dictation gives us great practice on writing sentences.  I will say the sentence to them they will not need to memorize it. This week I will also be looking at the way letters are written, we have been talking about the importance of capital letters and how they should not be in our spelling words unless they are a name or at the beginning of a sentence. I do this because students tend to write b's, d's, p's and q's as capital letters because they do not know which way they correctly go as a lower case letter the only way for us to know they need help with this is to make sure they are understanding and writing them correctly.

Ruby
1 .at           6. am
2 .can         7. bat
3. cat         8. mad
4. back      9. ran
5. dad       10. sack
*
11. come  12. Way
Sentence: My dad ran.

Emerald
1 .at           6. am
2 .can         7. bat
3. cat         8. mad
4. back      9. ran
5. dad       10. sack
11. hand   12. flat
*
13. come  14. way
Sentence: My dad ran.

Diamond
1. am        2. at
3. can       4. ran
5. bat       6. cat