October
13, 2008
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The Week Ahead: Reading
Story
set: Starting Thursday, 10/02, The Ugly
Duckling/Duck
Target skills of the Week:
Reading: Compare and Contrast
Phonics: Long a; Inflected
Endings -s, -es, -ing
Oral Language: Give directions
Writing: Nouns
"Family Times"
is the Parent booklet that is used with our story set. Please
see it for
activities to
do each day with your child, and a game to play.
Spelling
list: passes teaches
mother danger braid
passing teaching
myself paint
pebbles
wishes wishing
crib
keep
Math
Chapter 2 Place Value to 100
In Chapter 2
children will:
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*read and write numbers through 100.-
*compare and
order numbers to 100.
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*identify even and odd numbers and skip count to 100 by 3's and 4's.
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*solve problems by using logical reasoning.
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We'll be finishing Chapter 2 this week.
Please use
the Chapter 2 parent letter to ask your child about key words and
concepts.
Social
Studies
Unit
1, Family Ties, use
words: history, traditions,
community, neighborhoods, suburb, relatives, ancestors
Religion Chapter 14,
"God's Forgiving Love"
goals
- to identify why we need
forgiveness
- to point out what happens
when we celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation
- to identify the parts of
the celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
- to discover that St.
Dominic Savio was a peacemaker
Parents: How we do Poetry Journal
Please be sure to
sign the
1. Students cut out and glue in the poem of the
week
Yellow homework book
2. Students copy the poem, just as the poet wrote it,
and
every night after your child
decorate the page.
shows you finished
work.
3. Students read it to 5 people, in person or over the
phone.
4. That person hearing the poem signs the page.
5. It's due the next day!
Happy Fall!!