Weekly Newsletter

October 22nd-26th

 

 

 

Theme

 

Literature

How Our Country Works

Week 8: Lesson Plans

Predecodable Book:Come Vote With Me

Historical Figures:

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

 

George Washington and the General’s Dog

Abraham Lincoln

George Washington
St. Petersburg Catholic High School provided a special Halloween Treat for us. All the students were former Holy Family Students!


We had a presentation of the K-9 Dog and “toured” the International Museum presented by Grade 3 AND played in the leaves (ask your child!!!)

 

 

Print Concepts and Concept Development

Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Skills

Compare/contrast long ago and now

Quotation Marks

Connecting self to world

Blending three letter words

Our Leaders: President, Governor, Mayor, Presidential candidate

 

Sounds/letters introduced so far:

Aa, Bb, Tt, Pp, Ss, Mm, Oo, Cc, Rr, Ll, Uu, Nn, Gg, Ii, Dd, Ff

 

Rhyming Words, Adding beginning sounds, blending phonemes, ending sounds

 

 

High-Frequency Words 

Vocabulary Focus

Words introduced so far: me, see, a, A, for, is, an, at, the, The, I, am, you, be, can, he, she, we,and, are, like, likes, but, us, up, not, on, down

NEW:said, come, with, to

Mayor, governor, president, hero, honest, brave, respect, plow, slave, law, market

 

 

Online: more.starfall

Math

ABC Section: All letters introduced

Backpack Bear’s Books:Stories 1-8

 “Concepts” The A,O, U, I Machines

I’m Reading: Pumpkin, Pumpkin

Numbers:All sections including Addition

Story Problems: Addition

Religion

Upcoming

All Hallow’s Eve/ All Saint’s Day

 

Introduce Hh, Ww

High Frequency Words:as, has, want