Student of the Week
Amelia
Reading
Theme: Around Town: Neighborhood and Community
Genre: nonfiction
The story for this week is A Trip to the Firehouse. A group of children visit their neighborhood firehouse and learn all about how firefighters do their jobs.
Target Skills
Phonics: vowel pairs ai, ay: compound words
Comprehension: topic, main idea, and supporting details
High Frequency Words: clothes, order, guess
Vocabulary Words: chief, gear, dispatch, emergencies, firefighters, fire engine
Math
We will continue to practice subtraction with and without regrouping. Students will learn to check differences by using the inverse operation of addition.
Science
Students will classify leaves and learn the structural characteristics of different plants.
Social Studies
This will be our last week of Junior Achievement. Students will identify circumstances of money being exchanged for goods or services and recognize how money flows through a community's economy.
Homework
Reading - read 20 minutes and complete reading log
Math - practice facts and one side of the math worksheet
*Please check your child's homework and have him/her correct mistakes.
