What We're Learning

Literacy:

-Story structure - Using Braidy to retell (character, setting, kick-off, actions)

-Sentence Expansion - noun, verb, adjective

-Main Idea and Key Details

-Conventions - capital letters, spelling, punctuation, finger space between words

-Cohesive Ties

-Opinion/Informational/Narrative/How-To Writing

-Students will be working on writing using a 'hand' paragraph

*Topic sentence

*3 key details

*Concluding statement

Skills:

Students will be working on a variety of skills in their Power Team.

Some skills include:

-Short and long vowels

-Blends and digraphs

-Vowel Teams

-Multi-syllabic words

-Word wall words

Math:

-Fact practice adding and subtracting within 20

-Adding and subtracting double digit numbers

-Understanding place value (ones, tens, hundreds)

-Solving and writing number stories

-Telling time (to the hour, half-past)

-Working with money (identifying coins, adding amounts, notation)

-Everyday Math Games

*Subtraction Bingo, Exchange, Shaker Addition, Bunny Hop, Penny Dice