Homework:
We will have math and phonics homework every night (except Friday).
Our spelling test will be every Thursday; our reading (vocabulary) test every
Friday.
These are the spelling words for this week:
1. brake
2. mistake
3. fix
4. mix
5. brush
6. shop
7. fresh
8. splash
9. book
10. good
These are the reading words (vocab. words) for our reading story, "Greg's
Mask". (week of Nov. 2nd)
1. new
2. old
3. any
4. grow
5. worked
6. tape
7. mask
8. done
9. asked
10. trash
Our math facts test will be every Wednesday. On Nov. 4th, please be
prepared to test on the minus 1 facts. We will continue like that through
the minus 9 facts. Flash cards are an excellent way to prepare for this
timed test.
Remember to read aloud to your family every night.
These are some of the concepts that we will be studying at school.
Reading: author, illustrator, characters (who's in the story), main
idea (what the story's mostly about) and details, plot, comprehension,
setting, and good expression when reading aloud. We need to know what's
on the title page (author, illustrator, title).
Math: Counting (by twos, fives, tens, forward and backward),
adding-vertical addition, subtraction, word problems,
adding on and number lines, greater than, less than and equal to,
graphs, finding numbers that are one more than, one less than another
number, telling time, counting money and reading a thermometer, place value
(to 100), recognizing plane and solid shapes. Know how many sides and
vertices (corners) are on each shape. Know if the solid shapes will
stack, roll or slide.
Grammar: Sentence structure, using a capital letter at the beginning of
a sentence and a period, question mark or exclamation mark at the
end, nouns and verbs, contractions, compound words, subject-verb
agreement (he sees/we see), adjectives.
You may want to practice irregular plural nouns; for example, children is
the plural of child, men for man, women for woman, feet for foot etc.
Also, words that end in x, sh, s and ch must have -es added to the end
to make them plural.