Below you'll find some current academic areas of focus and what we will be studying for the 3rd nine weeks:
Language Arts:
- To be on level by the end of this nine weeks, your child must be reading a text (Level G or higher) independently with expression, comprehension at 95% accuracy
- dictionary skills
- put words in alphabetical order
- use correct capitalization and punctuation
- vowel digraphs (ex. oo, ai, ee, oa), r-controlled vowels (ex. far, her, bird), --- compound words, blends(ex. frog, stop),
- long and short vowels
- recognize 150 sight words by the end of this nine weeks (sight words on my blog)
- retell main idea and details of fictional text and informational text
(When your child reads to you or you read to your child, be sure to discuss the characters, setting, events/details in sequence in the book. Encourage your child to retell the book with few, if any, prompts)
- handwriting: printing legibly with correct spacing between words and forming letters correctly
- writing process:
1.) develop beginning, middle, and ending of a story with details throughout, a clear focus of the story, sequence, closure
2.) revise and edit a draft
3.) use resources to gather information
Math:
- fractions: whole, 1/2, and 1/4
- addition and subtraction facts to 18
- word problems to 18
- key math vocabulary words for addition and subtraction: altogether, combining sets, sum, total, plus, both, in all, are left/were left, fewer, difference, take away, remaining, how many more
- decompose numbers to 99 (ex. 56= 50+6)
- count coins to $1.00 and bills to $20
- time to the hour and half-hour
Science:
- identify parts of a plant
Social Studies:
- contributions of Harriet Tubman, Theodore Roosevelt & George Washington Carver
- locate all continents and oceans
