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    October 31, 2011
Specials: Mon.-Music, Tues.-P.E., Wed.-Art, Thurs.-P.E., Fri.—P.E.
Reading: On level readers will read:
“A Nut Falls” and “Plants Can’t Jump”

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme segmentation

Phonics: short u and initial blends with r

Fluency: Phrasing

Comprehension: Details of a story

Grammar: Nouns: animals and things

Above Level Readers: We’ll finish the following skill pages from “The Three Bikers”.

Reading skill: setting of a story,

Phonics: long e, ea, ee and final digraphs

Grammar: homophones

Spelling words: us, bus, must, cut, cub, club

with, then, don’t, says

Bonus Words: orange, black

Math: We’ll continue with Topic 4 this week. The skills are adding doubles, near doubles, facts with five on a ten frame, making 10 on a ten frame, drawing a picture and writing a number sentence to solve a problem. The test will be next Monday. You can go to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com to review the lessons. UN and password are your child’s N number.

Science: Spiders will be our topic this week. We’ll read and discuss how spiders are different than insects. Our Oreo cookie activity will help the children learn about the parts of a spider.   The children enjoyed making GAK with their fifth grade buddies in Mrs. Compton’s class. Today we will be visiting them again to do a dry ice experiment. This month we will be going with our buddies to Oscar Scherer State Park. Thanks to Mrs. Compton for planning this great trip.

Social Studies: We’ll begin our unit on Pilgrims this week. We’ll read about their journey and the hard times in their new land.

Technology: The websites we’ll work on include splash phonics, scholastic.com and several spider websites.

Reminders:

This is our second grading period. Please be sure to read with your first grader daily and practice the basic addition facts.

Our lunchtime is 11:20-11:50

Please sign the agenda book daily.

Send new supplies if your child needs them.

Thank you to all who helped make our silent auction a success. We raised enough money for our end of the year field trip on the Sarasota Bay Explorer. I appreciate everything you do to help the children and me.

I’m hoping our class website will be available this week.

Have a great week!

Joan Hazen   joan_hazen@sarasota.k12.fl.us