Welcome back! Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday. It is hard to believe the 2nd half of the year is hear already.
This grading period will continue to focus on many of the same skills but many new skills will be introduced.
Language Arts- Please continue to read with your child for fluency and practice the sight words. The new list is on the sight word page. We will continue spelling patterns with short and long vowels, blends, digraphs and r-controlled vowels. We will be reading and writing to identify the main idea and details in informational text.
Writing- We will be writing sentences to describe an experience and edit and revise our writings. I will be looking for printing with correct spacing, and letters formed the correct way. I will be checking for sentences using subject/verb agreement correctly. We will continue to work on capitalization and punctuation in our writing. We will review commas in a series.
Social Studies- Our units of study include character traits and contributions of Harriet Tubman, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington Carver.
Science- Our units of study include the investigations of light, sound and magnets. We will also study of basic needs of plants and animals.
Math- We will continue the comparison of numbers using greater than, less than and equal to with numbers through 100. We will be making fair trades in counting money through $1.00. We will be adding and subtracting our facts through sums and differences of 18.We will begin our study of fractions identifying halves and fourths. Time will be introduced telling time to the hour and 1/2 hour. We will continue our study of graphs including pictographs, bar graphs, cirlce graphs, and tally mark graphs.
So you can see this next grading period will be busy. Please review your child's silver folder daily. Practice sight words and math facts daily! Thank you for all your support. I am looking forward to conferencing with each of you.
