Spelling Words
(for Friday, Nov. 14)
mule, fuse,
plum
use, dug,
cub
hum, huge,
must
fun, rope,
nose
look, yes,
their
Reading: Last week we read stories about how animals
adapt to survive in their climate. This
week we will be reading and thinking about how animals in stories can teach us
a lesson. We will be listening to the
fable The Fox and the Crane. Then the children will read The Boy Who
Cried Wolf. Our reading strategies will
be making, confirming and revising predictions about a story.
Our phonic
skill this week is working on short u and long u (u-e) sounds.
Our grammar
skill this week will be adding suffixes (word endings: -ful, -ly) to words.
Math: The children will be learning some new
strategies for subtraction. We will
practice using an addition equation to help solve a subtraction equation. The children will also learn about “counting
down through 10” and “counting up through 10” as strategies for solving equations
where they have to subtract from a number greater than 10. Look for home links this week that will
further explain the strategy.
*The children
learned a new game last week called Salute.
It’s played with 3 people and uses number cards 1-10. You may play this game with a regular deck of
cards, using the aces as 1s and removing the face cards. Or, if you have the game Skip-bo,
those cards will work too. (Skip-bo is a
inexpensive card game found at Wal-mart or Meijers.)
Upcoming Events:
Nov. 14 - library
Nov. 17 – book orders due, delayed start
Nov. 27, 28 – Thanksgiving break (no school)
Happy Birthday!
Nov. 20 – Peyton S.
