December 29, 2009
Dear Parents,
We have many activities scheduled for the 3rd nine weeks. Please
send in a shoe box. We will be making an in class diorama in Science.
We will also be doing a Science unit on ecosystems. We will be
making a terrarium for plants. If you have an aquarium you are not using and
would like todonate it for the months of January and February please let me
know. We will be making an ecosystem for a snake for it. And, if you would
like to donate a turtle, we will make an ecosystem for it, too.
Listed below are the skills we will cover for the month of January
READING -
Review "genre" - fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, photo essay
review elements of a story - character, plot, setting, problem,
solution
Vocabulary words - how to decode - every syllable is a phoneme;
phonetic patterns: every syllable must have a vowel, magic or silent "e", vcv
pattern words, open syllables, closed syllables, "r" controlled vowels,
consonant diagraphs, and blends
LANGUAGE -
review nouns (singular and plural)
review verbs (past, present, and future tense)
review the verb "be" - am, are, is, was, were
review helping verbs - have, has, had
review parts of a letter - heading, greeting, body, closing, and,
signature
review writing an address - Mr. and Mrs. Sam Baker
123 Green Street
Slidell, LA 70641
review "prefix" (these phonemes are added to the beginning of a word
and change the meaning of a word ... un, dis, re
"suffix" (these phonemes are added to the end of a word ly, ness,
INTRODUCE adjectives - words that describe nouns - they describe
size, shape, color, number, and answer the question what kind
MATH -
review odd and even numbers
review addition and subtraction fact families
review money - penny, nickle, dime, quarter, half dollar
review time to the hour, half hour, 15 minute, and 5 minute
review pictgraph, tally graph, bar graph
review measurement - linear (inch, foot, mile - millimeter,
centimeter, and kilometer
addition with regrouping - understanding the terms addends, place
value (ones, tens, hundreds), regrouping
INTRODUCE fractions - understanding fractions are a part of a whole
and the term numerator and denominator
shapes - there are flat shapes - circle, square, triangle,
rectangle, rhombus, pentagon, hexagon, octagon
geometric shapes - they are 3 dimensional shapes -cube, cylinder,
rectangular prism, cone, square pyramid, sphere
TO BE CONTINUED
TO BE CONTINUED......