Unit 3 Week 1 Preview

In our new unit we will be exploring fun and laughter. In the first week we ask what makes us laugh and how do we make other people laugh. Our oral vocabulary is amuse, delighted, humorous, mood, ridiculous. Our reading sight words are away, school, today, way, why. For spelling we will focus on 'long-a' spellings. We will listen to and generate rhyme. Time permitting we will use a Flow Map to generate a retell. We will incorporate time-order cues and words into our retell.

In Writing we will begin our unit on informational texts beginning with writing a "How to"

In Social Science we will discuss good sportsmanship and rules (HSS 1.1.2) In the coming weeks we will also learn the basic components of a simple map.

In Science we will soon begin studying the elements of weather.

Unit 2 Week 5 Preview

For the next few instructional days we will ask what neighbors do together for fun. Our oral vocabulary words will be: audience, entertain, brilliant, enjoy, perform. Our sight words will be: all, put, show, together, under, want. In phonics we will be introduced to the digraphs 'sh,' and 'th'. We will again generate retells and summaries of our selections using visualization.