Skills for the Week of November November 16 - 20, 2009
Reading Skills - Book 1-3/Lesson 13
Reading Selections: "Rich Gets Big"--(decodable/fiction); "A Butterfly Grows" --(main selection/nonfiction); "Caterpillars"--(paired reading/poetry)
Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Deletion--(initial and medial)
Phonics/Spelling: Digraph: /ch/ch, tch; Inflection -es
High Frequency Words: air be fly friends grew grow need now of play rain saw too was watch
Story Vocabulary: butterfly caterpillar chomp chrysalis crunch days drink drops egg grows hang hatched I'm insect lunch munch onto plips plops shed skin spot wind
*Robust Words: astonishing continue doubt transform examine devour
*(These words are used to develop students listening and speaking vocabulary. The definition for each word is included in the homework folder.)
Comprehension: Sequence; Use Graphic Organizers
Spelling Words: chip chin inch such catch match wish shop saw were
Sentence Dictation: I saw a bug that was one inch long.
Grammar: Names of Days and Months
Writing: Continue Thanksgiving Writing -- "I Am Thankful ..." Sequence Story
Math Skills -- Chapters 3 and 4:
Review Basic Addition and Subtraction Facts
Strategies for Subtraction Facts to 12 -- (Counting Back; Fact Families)
Social Studies/Health/Science:
Pilgrims
Indians