Welcome, Greenbrook Gators!

• Group 1 - letters m, a, l, o, h, g, c, u, e

• Group 2 - digraphs ch, sh, th, wh, flsz rule, compound words, closed/open syllables, magic e vs. vowel teams

• Group 3 - "3 Great Rules for Adding Suffixes" double the consonant, drop the e, change y to i, -dge, -tch

• Progress from listing individual story details to summarizing the plot of a text

• Main idea

• wh questions (who, what, when, where, why, how)

• Text-to-self connections (This reminds me of...)

• Compare and contrast (Venn diagrams)

• Calm body and focused attention during a read-aloud

• Paragraphs (introduction, 3 details, conclusion)

• Descriptive writing - 5 senses and other adjectives

• Our addresses and phone numbers

• Complete sentences (who/what + what's happening)

• Conventions (Capitalization, Understanding, Punctuation, Spelling = CUPS)

• Past, present, and future tenses

• Addition and subtraction with regrouping

• Story problems (computation as well as language comprehension)

• Shapes

• Telling time

• Money (name and value of coins)

• Place value (ones, tens, hundreds)

• Fractions

• Living and Nonliving

(Living things breathe, eat, and grow.)

• Habitats

• Animal adaptations

• Weather and climate

• Needs and Wants

(What do we need to survive?)

• Consumers and producers

• Goods and services

• Budgets

• Resources