The Week of October 31st

This week in Language Arts we will...

• write focused narratives
• use a bank of tools to help with spelling in our stories
• try to improve productivity by trying to write an entire story in one writing session
• learn how to preview stories to get minds ready for reading
• use what is happening in a story to predict what will come next
• mark important parts in our books to retell and retain
• learn the importance of rereading and to notice new details in our stories
• sort words according to our spelling patterns

This week in Math we will...

• find the sum of two numbers and then three numbers
• establish patterns with skip counting
• work with creating addition and subtraction sentences
• work with adding to or joining a group
• problem solve during cooperative BUILD learning

This week in Science we will...

• observe and describe how soil is formed

Week of October 24th

This Week in Language Arts we will...

• work on our stories so that readers can understand and read our writing
• hear and record sounds in the words they write
• work on writing sight words with automaticity
• double check that we are spacing between words 
• draw from our repertoire of word-solving strategies to tackle challenges with greater automaticity
• work on improving our fluency
• work in partners to use strategies to read hard words
• strengthen our knowledge of spelling patterns through our sorts

This Week in Math we will...

• make connections between addition and subtraction facts
• use related addition and subtraction facts
• participate in measurement activities with pumpkins

This week in Social Studies we will...

• learn about the importance of recycling
• learn about natural resources and how we use them
• identify examples and uses for natural resources
• identify goods and service
• analyze the importance of having both goods and services and how they impact our communities

Week of October 17th

This week in Language Arts we will ...

• Work with partners to revise and edit our small moment stories
• Work on adding new vocabulary into our schema for reading and writing
• Use the sequence of events to retell a story with a simple narrative structure
• Monitor for meaning in our reading not only when problem solving harder words but also reading across whole parts of longer, more challenging books
• Checking to make sure we understand what we are reading
• Work on envisioning the scene of the story we are reading
• Use clues in illustrations and text to infer the meanings of unfamiliar vocabulary 
• Continue practicing our automaticity of high frequency words
• Master our current spelling sort and apply it to our reading and writing

This week in Math we will ...

• Subtract from a given number and finde the difference
• Create addition and subtraction equations
• Represent numbers in a variety of ways

This week in Science we will...

• Identify forms of energy using light as our model
• Identify and discuss how different forms of energy are important to everyday life
• Work on science specific vocabulary in relation to energy

The Week of October 10th

This week in Language Arts we will...

• Separate out the may sounds we hear in words and write down the letters that correspond to those sounds.
• Plan detailed stories with our writing partners by saying detailed stories aloud before beginning to write.
• Learn the strategy of telling a story across our fingers to help produce stories that have a beginning, middle, and end.
• Use familiar letter combinations to solve unknown/new words
• Continue to strengthen our sight word knowledge base
• Strengthen reading and writing skills with spelling sort patterns
• Be introduced to various types of nouns including common, proper, and pronoun

This week in Math we will...

• Continue to model, draw, share, and problem solve while working through the subtraction problems
• Generate addition word problems
• Generate subtraction word problems
• Use strategies to solve multi step problems
• Problem solve using the strategy of CUBES

This week in Social Studies we will...

• Identify and describe the physical characteristics of land forms, bodies of water, and natural resources (including valleys, mountains, lakes, hills, etc.)