Week of August 24, 2015

      This week the children will learn about /Ll/ blends.  They will be decoding words with /Ll/ blends and reading stories with /Ll/ blends in them.  The children will continue to work on learning sight words.  They will be working on identifying the main details and main details in the stories they read.  The children will begin to learn to read fluently.  They will continue to decode words with  short /a/ and short /i/ vowel sounds.
       In language the children will learn what a noun is.  They will be sorting nouns according to people, places, things, and animals and identifying nouns in sentences.  They will begin learning how to make nouns plural.   The children will continue to learn about telling and asking sentences.  They will write sentences about the creation.  The children will begin to write in their journals.
       In Bible your child will continue to learn about the creation.  They will continue to make a booklet about the creation.  Your child will be writing a narrative about what they have learned about the creation.  They  will have a test on the creation on Friday.  A study sheet will come home on Thursday.  This week memory verse is "God created the Heaven and Earth". They will be ask to recite the memory verse on Friday.
       In math the children will continue to work on addition.  They will be adding by using the strategies of adding on and using touch points.  They will continue to learn to work addition word problems. Your child will continue to work on counting and writing numbers to 120.
       This week's spelling words will have the /Ll/ blends in them.  Your child will have a dictation sentence to write along with their spelling words.
WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:
1.  clip       2.  flip     3.  slip      5.  flag     6.  black     7.  plan     8.  be     9.  pull     10.  class
BONUS WORDS:  Heaven     Earth

       In science the children will begin a study of colors as they prepare to do some experiments with colors in the Stem lab.