February

Chapter 6: Place Value to 100, is our focus in our Math curriculum for the month of February.

1. Add numbers with sums of 20 or less.

2. Subtract from 20 or less.

3. Solve problems by making a table.

We will be working on Superkids Unit 8 and 9 for the month of February.

Daily 5 will continue to be a part of our literacy time. Students are self-paced during this time while I will be working with small, differentiated reading groups. Students continue to work on: Read to Self, Work on Writing, Word Work, and Listen to Reading "rotating" every 15 minutes. Students will reference Daily 5 slides to know the expectations and work for each 15 minute time block.

The following are the focus target areas in Unit 9 of Adventures of the Superkids and will be focus areas during Daily 5 as well:

*Target Skills:

Reading

• • Associate long-vowel sounds with CVVC

  • Decode CVVC words and CVVC words with endings -ing, -ed, -er, -est

Vocabulary:

• • Read Memory Words would, could, some, one, new, were

  • Understand comparative and superlative adjectives

Comprehension:

• Monitor comprehension and use fix-up tip: Think about what makes sense

• Understand setting and its importance

• Recognize text structure

• Identify lesson(s) taught in play or fable

Fluency:

• Read at an appropriate rate

• Use proper pitch and volume

Writing:

• Writing process: Plan and draft a story

Spelling:

• Spell Memory Words

• Encode CVVC words

• Encode CVVC words with -ing, -ed, -er, -est, endings

We finished our Social Studies Unit 4 "Everything Changes" in February and will be starting our next Science Unit at the end of the month.

*Target Skills:

• Use the terms past, present, and future to describe changes that happen in your life.

• Tell how we learn about the past.

• Use timeline to get information about events and the order of those events.

• Identify American Indian groups.

• Tell about American Indian traditions that are still practiced today.

• Explain difficulties of settlers.

• Compare lives of Pilgrim and American Indian families to families today.

• Describe the Pilgrims' first harvest celebration.

• Follow problem-solving steps to solve a problem.

• Compare your school to one from long ago.

• Compare transportation methods from long ago to those we use today.

• Explain how transportation inventions have changed the way people live.

• Understand that different people have different points of view.

• Identify inventions and ideas that made communication easier.

• Compare methods long ago with those used today.