Reading: This week we will be determining the central message in fiction texts. The central message is the lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
Phonics: /oi/ as in joint or void and /oy/ as in joy or oyster words /oi/ is usually in the middle of a word, while /oy/ is at the end or beginning. Red Words: enough, world, toward, thought Language Arts: This week we continue with reflexive pronouns. The nine English reflexive pronouns are myself, yourself, himself, herself, oneself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. Writing: This week we continue writing narrative stories. This week, we will take familiar stories (such as Little Red Riding Hood) and create a new problem and solution for the story. Math: This week we introduce fractions by partitioning shapes into equal parts. Then we will identify those parts as halves, thirds, and quarters. Science: We continue our study the life cycles of animals and plants. Reading: This week we review recounting stories and the importance of how the beginning of the story introduces the characters, setting, and problem, the middle is the struggle to resolve the problem, and the end is the solution to the problem.
Phonics: Prefix: micro - meaning small (ex. microjet, microform) Red Words: arrived, courts, knee, heard Language Arts: This week we introduce reflexive pronouns. The nine English reflexive pronouns are myself, yourself, himself, herself, oneself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. We continue to work on writing complete sentences with a subject (naming part) and a predicate (action part). We also continue to use correct capitalization and punctuation. Writing: Our last writing unit is narrative. We will incorporate the story elements we are reviewing and previewing in Reading. Math: This week we continue to identify shapes according to their attributes. Students must dentify triangles, quadrilaterals (four sided shapes), pentagons, hexagons, and cubes (the only 3-d shape we study). Students will need to understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories. Science: We continue our study the life cycles of animals and plants. Reading: Our last unit of study will be a fiction unit. We start off this unit by reviewing Point of View. Although students have already learned the standards, they should now be practicing these standards with more difficult text. We will introduce first, second, and third person point of view.
Phonics: Prefixes: un-, mis-, dis-, and non- (ex. unbutton, misunderstand, disrespect, nonfiction) Red Words: don't, sign, too who Language Arts: We continue to work on writing complete sentences with a subject (naming part) and a predicate (action part). We also continue to use correct capitalization and punctuation. We continue our focus on using adjectives and adverbs correctly in our writing. Writing: We continue our opinion writing this week. We are writing about a pet we would like to have. Students will back up their opinion with three reasons and examples or evidence. Math: Our focus this week is on building arrays and using repeated addition to represent the rows and columns in arrays. We also begin Geometry. Students will recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Students will also dentify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. Science: We begin our unit on life cycles. We will study the life cycles of animals and plants. |
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