Dear Families,
Our reading assessments went well! We still have hard work to do, in the next 4 months to be ready for third grade. Please continue to read at home every night and watch papers that come home for pats on the back and reinforcement of skills missed. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to support you at home.
Our Human Body Domain culminated on Friday! Your kids did a nice job on the assessment and the short answers. We will be writing a lot more this semester. Capital letters and punctuation are still a challenge! 🙂 We are also completing i-Ready Math and Reading daily for 20 minutes.
Your children are delightful and growing like crazy. They are doing a nice job adjusting to more responsibility in their learning. My biggest challenge is NOT to rescue them right away! 🙂
Have a great week!
Mrs. P.
LANGUAGE ARTS (CKLA):
SKILLS: Unit 5
- /u/ spelled ‘u’ (but), ‘o’ (son), ‘ou’ (touch), ‘o_e’ (come)
• /ə/ (also called the schwa sound) spelled ‘a’ (about), ‘e’ (debate) - /ə/ + /l/ spelled ‘al’ (animal), ‘il’ (pencil), ‘el’ (travel), ‘le’ (apple)
- /sh/ + /ə/ + /n/ spelled ‘tion’ (action)
The Reader for this unit is Sir Gus. It is a fictional Reader detailing the serendipitous undertakings of Sir Gus, one of King Alfred’s knights. Despite his title as “Sir Gus the Fearless,” Sir Gus actually has many different fears. In this Reader, Sir Gus has to face a thief, a troll, pirates, an evil wizard, and an enemy king.
SPELLING: Focus: /ee/-y/-ly and Alphabetical Order
- quickly
- neatly
- ugly
- jelly
- chilly
- slowly
- funny
- angry
- empty
- mommy
- daddy
- happy
- pretty
- grumpy
- alphabet (Tricky Word)
Introduced on Monday/Test every Friday! 🙂
GRAMMAR:
- capitalization and punctuation
- verb tenses identifying and using verbs in the present, past, and future tenses
- introduce adjectives
- identify the subject and predicate
MATH: Chapter 14: Time
Basic Fact Practice/Money and Time Practice
Multiplying and Dividing Numbers 0,1,2,3,5, and 10
Word Problems regrouping in ones, tens, and hundreds place
PULL OUT THAT EXTRA CHANGE AND TELL TIME ON AN ANALOG CLOCK OFTEN!
SOCIAL STUDIES: Westward Expansion
- Going West
- Mr. Fulton’s Journey
- The Journal of a Twelve Year Old On the Erie Canal
- The Story of Sequoyah
- The Trail of Tears
- Westward on the Oregon Trail
- The Pony Express
- Working on the Transcontinental Railroad
- Buffalo Hunters
CORE VOCABULARY
Lesson 1
campfire settled sights sympathy wagon train
Lesson 2
design inventor steamboats voyage
Lesson 3
Erie Canal freight tow transport
Lesson 4
approach concluded create generations interacting
Lesson 5
encountered forced insisted miserable relocate
Lesson 6
hardships ruts scout steep territory steep
Lesson 7
endurance landmark route venture
Lesson 8
ancestor convenient iron horse spanned transcontinental railroad
Lesson 9
bison charged skilled solemnly
Students will:
Describe a pioneer family’s journey westward
Describe family life on the frontier
Explain the significance of the steamboat
Identify Robert Fulton as the developer of the steamboat
Identify steamboats, canals, and trains as new means of travel that increased the movement of people west
Describe the importance of canals
Identify the Erie Canal as the most famous canal built during theCanal Era
Demonstrate familiarity with the song “The Erie Canal”
Explain the significance of Sequoyah’s invention of the Cherokee writing system
Explain why writing was important to Sequoyah and the Cherokee
Describe the Cherokee writing system in basic terms
Explain that the U.S. government forced Native Americans from their lands
Identify the Trail of Tears as a forced march of the Cherokee
Identify the Oregon Trail as a difficult trail traveled by wagon trains
Identify the Pony Express as a horseback mail delivery system
Identify steamboats, canals, and trains as new means of travel that increased the movement of people west
Identify the transcontinental railroad as a link between the East and the West
Identify “iron horse” as the nickname given to the first trains in America
Explain the advantages of rail travel
Explain that the development of the railroad ushered in a new era of mass exodus of the Native Americans from their land
Demonstrate familiarity with the song “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
Describe the effect of diminishing buffalo on the life of Plains Native Americans
Explain that the U.S. government forced Native Americans from their lands
Explain that westward expansion meant displacement of Native Americans
SCIENCE: Coming Soon!