Week of February 15, 2016

 This week the children will work on the following skills.  Due to snow days we have a lot to make up.

• Students will identify, read, and write words with long /i/ spelled i, ie, y, and igh.
• Student will write stories with long /i/ words spelled i, ie, y, and igh.
• Students will continue to read stories and identify the main idea, details, purpose.
• Student will learn about cause and effect within a story.
• Students will review inflectional ending to verbs.  They will  review verbs, nouns, and .adjectives.
• Students will continue to learn about famous African American as they prepare for their presentation.  More information will come home this week about their presentation.
• Students will learn about dental health and the proper way to take care of their tenth.
• Students will continue to work on reading for fluency and understanding.
• Students will continue to learn  about Moses and the Red Sea.
• In math the children will review time.  They will view telling time by the hour and half hour.
• Children will  review finding the missing addend.
• Students will write narratives about presidents, and famous African Americans.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

find       night      by      sky     right      pie    tried     kind      bright      cries

Bonus Words:  Dentist      teeth

FIRST GRADE INFORMATION:

• First graders will do Chapel on March 4th.  More information will come home this week about this during the week.
• Children will go to the Discovery Science museum on March 3rd,
• Students need to read a AR book daily.  Your child should read at least 3 AR books a week.  If your child is reading a chapter book they should read at least one book a week.  Please remind your child to return their AR book to school each day.  We allow time in the class to read for fun each day.