Week of September 28th - October 2

Minimum Days every Wednesday -- Dismissal 1:30

• We will continue talking about rules, expectations, lining up, routines, transitions (cleaning up), and Hands to Self -- making good choices, problem solving, and recess rules. Practice makes progress! 

Language Arts: Benchmark Unit 2 Week 3 --  Spelling tests and Reading Comprehension (story) tests indpendently on Fridays

• l blends -- examples (flat, glad) 

• Listen and retell key details

• Use illustrations to describe key details

• Text evidence

• Build vocabulary

• Text Features: glossary 

• Common and Proper nouns

Math Expressions: Unit 2 -- addition partners, switch partners, number patterns, and math mountains

• Quiz 1 on Tuesday

• Unit 2: Addition and subtraction strategies: Lessons 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, 2-11

• Voabulary: partners, swich partners, equation (number sentence), math mountain, counting on

Writing:

• Student of the week writing (Informational) 

• Journal (narrative) 

Social Studies:

• Communities

• Citizens

• Laws and Rules

Science:

• Animals: adaptations, needs, defenses

• Animal Traits, comparing young animals to adults of the same type (baby birds vs. adult birds), bird beaks 

SEL (Social Emotional Lessons)/Social Studies

• Building Focus

• Following directions and expected behaviors -- transitions, lining up, quiet listening

• Hands to self 

• Problem solving

• Recess rules and expectations