Newsletter 1/28/19

 Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                               1/28/19

Goals for the week:

To review all short and long vowel sounds.

To review numbers to 20.

To use place value to compare numbers.

To identify and extend number patterns

To use different strategies to add and subtract 1 and 2 digit numbers.

To review number bonds and fact families.

To use the make 10 strategy to add and subtract.

To use the doubles and doubles plus and minus one strategies to add and subtract.

To measure using non-standard units of measurement.

To compare length and height.

To identify asking, telling, and exclamatory sentences.

To use period, question marks and exclamation points.

To identify and use descriptive words.

To identify base words and endings.

To identify genre of books including fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography.

Word study words to know: know 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, on got not , was, box, job, off, will, miss, you, fix, pass, long, ring, pink, what, bank, sang, inch, whip, are, put, whiff, chill, that, thing, with, this, dish, thank, well, men, get, tell, set , let, when, them, then, flag, plan, sled, glad, black, class, fresh, bring, grass, drink, crack, press,  Twin, still, swim, snack, skin, smell, spell, up, sun, but, us, truck, clock, path, napkin, cannot, upset, into, jacket Spring, scrub, scrap, splash, string, were,  squid, and, last, hand, best, went, end, left, desk, help, must, do, and, to, many, milk, kept, such, much, which, rich, catch, pitch, stitch, stretch, Jumps, socks, lifts, chicks, catches, pitches, stretches, glasses

Red words to know: to, the, have, said, of, was, you, what, are, put, would, could should, they, your, Mrs. And Mr. into, were, many, any

To know that vowels followed by an r are r controlled vowels.  To identify the sounds of r controlled vowels.

Word study words this week: unit 18, words that end in -tch and the exceptions

(such, much, which, rich, catch, pitch, stitch, stretch

To add s or es to a word to make it plural.

To continue to use capital letters and punctuation in sentences.

To self edit our writing using our writer’s eye.

To write about a topic giving facts and details in a sequential order.

To listen and respond to Groundhog Day by Gail Gibbons.

To continue to read biographies of important African Americans and to research important Americans.\

To read with expression…. looking for quotation marks and giving characters voices!

To add dialog in our writing.

Homework : 

Monday:  Do an activity on your READO or WRITE boards

Tuesday:  Practice Math Facts

Wednesday:   Fluency Folder

Thursday:  study word study words.