Weekly Newsletter

Happy New Year!

January 4, 2010

Reading:
Story for the week is: "On The Way To The Pond""
Vocabulary words are:  find  follow  found  four  full  these  way  were
We will be identifying the setting of the story.
We will be identifying and write special names (proper nouns).
We will be working with the sound of /er/-spelled with er, ir, and ur.

Spelling Words are:  
sir  dirt  bird  burn  fur  her  quit  when  work  grew

Phonics:
We will study the letter y as a vowel that makes the the long i and long e sound.
We will study the combination er-ex: butter.
We will study the trigraph igh-ex: light.

Math:
We will study ordering numbers through 100.
We will identify ordinal numbers from 1st through 10th.
We will use 10 to estimate how many in all.
We will compare numbers using the words greater than and less than.

Unit:
Japan


Thank you!
Mrs. Erdeljac