Week at a Glance - Week of 10-5 to 10-9

Picture Day is this Wednesday, October 7th!
Please make sure your child brings his/her picture form on or before Wednesday.

Word Wall Words

• think
• let 
• going 
• again
• may

Phonics Focus

• vowel - short u continued
• consonant review - /j/ /j - dge/ /g/ /f/ /or/
• adding -ing with no spelling changes
• review l blends

Grammar

• review nouns
• Introduced to proper nouns 
• review compound words 
• review punctuation

Handwriting

• Continued review of basement letters

ELA

• continue reading stories from the book "Families"
• make connections from our own lives to the families we read about.
• read the story "The Pain and The Great One"
• make personal connections to the story
• compare and contrast the two characters in the story
• write about how we are like people in our own families

Math

• continue working on adding and subtracting using number lines and other strategies.
• review graphing and data

Science

• Students will be learning about the kinds of living things.
• Students will identify the similarities and differences between living things.
• Students will also identify how animals of one kind are like other animals of that same kind.