Friday, March 30, 2012

Themes, Concepts and Objectives for April 2-6

Reading- In whole group reading we will discover the wonders of the water cycle in our selections  A Water Cycle Story and Grandma's Ring. We will focus on the skill of summarizing as we continue to look for the main idea  and supporting details in a story.

Spelling- Word study patterns this week will be -ier and -iest. We will be learn the rule of "drop the y and add the i" this week in spelling. Test will be on Friday, April 6th.


Cougar Reading- We will use critical thinking skills this week as we identify "cause" and "effect" this week by playing a card game and creating a flip book.

Math-  The students will continue to identify and count coins this week. Topic 13 test will be given on Wednesday, April 4th and then we will begin Topic 14 in which we will add and subtract money.

Writing-  In writing this week we will write a humorous story about a class trip to Hawaii and work on recognizing and writing lowercase cursive letters.

Science- Your child will become a cloud expert this week as we learn identify types of clouds, create and diagram cloud models and conduct an experiment where we make a cotton ball rain!

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