This month we are working on:
Writing: Opinion Writing, editing our own work, writing declarative and interrogative sentences
Reading: Identifying the Main Idea and Supporting Details, text features, informational texts, realistic fiction, using appropriate voice expression to read declarative and interrogative sentences
Math:
First grade: Strategies for Solving Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20
Second grade: Fluency in Addition and Subtraction to 100 using Different Strategies
Foundational Skills:
First grade: -ck ending; ending blends, consonant digraphs -sh, -ch, -th
Second grade: Long a spelled with ai, ay, ea; vowel digraph 'ie' for long e and long i; Long e spelled ee, ea, ey, and y
We are working on manipulating sounds in the initial, medial, and ending position to make new words.
Example: We can change the medial sound in gate to make a new word "goat".