Below is the curriculum update for the month. Remember that most of my instruction is differentiated in small groups based on students' needs.
The class is also review the Seven Habits weekly.
August Curriculum Update:
Math
- Review addition and subtraction strategies with numbers to 20. (counting on, making ten, fact families, number bonds with part, part, whole)
- Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represents amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.
- Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
- Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form
- introduce coins and values
- introduce telling time to the hour and half hour
Reading:
- read aloud Classroom at the End of the Hall by Douglas Evans
- ask and answer who, what, when, why, and how questions to understand text
- describe how a character in a story responds to major events and challenges
- distinguish between long and short vowels when reading
- Guided reading lessons with leveled text
ELA/ Writing:
- Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- Nouns (common, proper, pronouns, collective nouns, possessive nouns)
- Write friendly letters to parents
Science:
- will compare and contrast seasonal changes through observing how certain trees change throughout the year and through collecting evidence of the length of our day ( sunrise to sunset)
- will investigate the properties of matter and changes that occur in objects.
*Identify the three common states of matter as solid, liquid, or gas.
~ Mrs. Folsom
