Date: Nov. 16 - Nov. 20, 2009
Theme: Thanksgiving
Math: Numbers to 31
Social Living/Science: Thanksgiving/Indians
Language Arts:
Phonics Focus:
- write captions for illustrations
- understand story structure: beginning, middle, end
- read a chart for information
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2nd nine week words
at look this an you
ten can six eight see
seven he zero nine is
on in your to like come
here
Why is it important to learn sight words?
There are two reasons why sight words are an essential component of good
reading. First of all, many of these words do not sound like their spellings
might suggest, so "sounding them out" would be unproductive. Also, a good
reader really can't afford the time to dwell on too many words, or he may
lose the speed and fluency necessary for determining the author's message.
The 100 most common words actually make up about 50% of the material we
read! We can enable our students to greatly increase their reading
efficiency when we teach them to read half or more of the words they
encounter in a quick and automatic manner.
Calendar skills we work on daily in our S.M.A.R.T. book
(Science/Math/Analyze/Record/Total)
*counting by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's
*creating and interpreting a graph
*naming days of the week and months of the year
*identifying and naming patterns
*identifying yesterday, today and tomorrow
*identifying and writing numerals 1-31
*place value
*odd/even numbers
*counting coins
*identifying coins and their value
*telling time to the hour and half hour
*adding and subtracting
*tally marks
