Week of October 13

Notes:

• This week is Conferences on Tuesday (evening) and Wednesday (daytime).
• There is no school Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

LITERATURE
Fall

Focus: Main Idea & Details
Pumpkin Soup
Focus: Characters 

MATH

This week our focus is sorting and patterns: Students will be working on creating and extending AB and ABB patterns using many different attributes such as shape, size, color, orientation, etc. 

During the months of September and October students will work on the following skills:

·         numbers 0-10 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)

·         matching and sorting: size and shape

·         2-dimensional shapes

·         patterns :AB and ABB

Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.

HANDWRITING/WRITING
Letters: Review

Students will practice the basic handwriting strokes, pencil grip, and correct posture.

Labeling Pictures

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Animal Habitats-Each day we will be learning about a different habitat and the animals that live in that particular habitat.