Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                             Halloween Week

Goals for the week:

To review all short vowel sounds.

To continue to work with addition and subtraction.

To use the count on, count back, take away strategies for subtraction.

To use the number bond strategy for addition and subtraction.

To have compare and contrast the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and the Old Lady who swallowed a Bat.

To read Halloween stories, the Big Pumpkin, The Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything, Creepy Carrots.

To compare and contrast characters across stories.

To identify character traits on the outside and on the inside.

To read fiction and nonfiction selections on the topic of Bats.

To identify fiction and nonfiction stories.

To continue to identify and write facts and opinions.

To compare and contrast bats and birds.

To continue to listen to stories about bats and bugs.

To compare and contrast bats and birds.

To identify beginning, middle, and end of a story.

To identify cause and effect in a story.

To identify sequence in a story.

To identify the mood of a story.

To retell a story using all the story elements.

To identify story elements.(character, setting, plot, main idea)

To continue to practice reading and writing words that end in glide sounds ng, nk.

To identify the sounds of the diagraphs wh, ch, sh, th

Word study words this week: Long, ring, pink, bank, sang, sing and the red word What, and inch, whip, are, put, chill, whiff,

Word study words to know: am, at, cat, sat, bat, fat, as, has, can, an, man, had, van, sad, to, bad, rag, in, big, is, did, if, it, his, pack, said, sick, tack, back, kid, cab, of sack, pack, its, him, quit, six, fix, wax, Off, will, miss, fizz, pass, jazz, 

Red words to know: to, the, have, said, of, you, what, are, put

To continue to observe and learn about different types of insects.

To label and identify insect characteristics.

To identify the stages of complete metamorphosis.

 

Homework :

Monday night: Complete an activity from your READO game board.

Tuesday night: study math facts +3

Wednesday night: Fluency folder

Thursday : study word study words to unit 11

Friday:  Harvest Party this afternoon  (just children and volunteers please)