Important dates:
Wed 10/31 - Historical Dress Up Day! Pizza Day!
Wed 11/14- Thanksgiving program 1:30-3:00I cannot wait to see all the fun historical costumes on Wednesday! It will be such a fun day!
Meeting with you for conferences has been wonderful and so affirming, knowing that we are partners in educating these precious children.
***There is a lot of information under our Spelling section below. Please be sure to read it carefully and let me know if you have any questions.
***There is a lot of information under our Spelling section below. Please be sure to read it carefully and let me know if you have any questions.
Math
Objectives:
1. To understand the concept of capacity.
2. To recognize and match equal sets.
3. To demonstrate understanding of 1-1 correspondence.
2. To recognize and match equal sets.
3. To demonstrate understanding of 1-1 correspondence.
- This week we are working on capacity and equal sets. The equal sets lesson is a great footing for your child to understand that equal means 'the same as' and not 'the answer is'. Please make sure to provide the hands-on capacity lessons at the bottom of the page for Tuesday.
Reading
*Please note that there is a lesson assigned for Thursday and another lesson assigned for Friday
Objectives:
1. To be able to read sentences with current sight words and CVC words.
2. To be able to read and accurately blend words that end with a two consonant blend.
*Please note that there is a lesson assigned for Thursday and another lesson assigned for Friday
- see table
Writing
Objectives:
Objectives:
1. To be able to form all upper case letters properly on handwriting lines.
2. To be able to form all lower case letters properly on handwriting lines.
3. To be able to write name properly using only 1 capital letter.
4. To be able to write the alphabet on handwriting paper from memory.
- Remember to continue handwriting practice on lined handwriting paper as well as HWT book.
- Have your child practice writing his/her name properly on handwriting lines. Breaking the habit of writing their name with all capital letters can be a challenge!
Spelling
Objectives:
1. To be able to alphabetize letter tiles.
2 To be able to choose the correct short vowel sound when heard in a word.
3. To understand that every word has at least one vowel.
- Now that we have emergent readers, our explicit spelling instruction has started! Please follow the break-up of the lesson on the table.
- You should have introduced blue key card #3 last Thursday and will introduce key card #4 this Tuesday. Practice blue key cards along with phonogram cards daily.
- The format of lessons will remain the same (starting with Step 6): Every Thursday the new "Step" will be introduced at home and we will work on it for a week. Spelling Journals will start coming home this week.
THURSDAY- Introduce "Step" and do lesson up to and including"Spell with Tiles."
TUESDAY: Finish the lesson including "Spell on Paper"- Dictate the 10 words for your child to write in Spelling Journal. Practice "More Words" at home on dry erase board. Please make sure to reinforce proper letter formation and writing correctly on the lined pages in the journal. - ****Spelling Journals will need to come to school every school day so I can check them!(Bring every day- Blue folder, Math book, Math Journal, Spelling Journal)
History
Objectives:
1. To be able to point to and say the northern states of the US on a map.
2. To be able to describe key events in the Bible and to learn from them.
3. To see God's hand in every event.
3. To see God's hand in every event.
Science
Objectives:
1. To be able to name all 8 planets in order. (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune)
2. To be able to give characteristics of each planet
Mars Jupiter
(To the song: Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho!) (Tune: Home on the Range")
Planet Mars, Oh there is a giant planet
Planet Mars! Called Ju-u-piter!
It is the color red. Where there's a storm
4th from the sun. Swirling like the clouds.
It comes after Earth. Bigger than the other planets
Volcanoes, put together as one.
craters, It's made of gas
and a desert! and called a gas giant.
Geography
Objectives:
Objectives:
1. To be able to point to and say the northern states of the US on a map.
2. To begin learning to draw the world map by drawing a compass rose, equator, and prime meridian.
- Due 10/29. Students will be required to sing the names of the States only. However, we will be pointing at them on the US map at school and you are welcome to print the map and do so as well. Click here for the Geography songs for the year.
Memory Work
- Please take a few minutes each homeschool day to review memory work! (Poem, Geography song, Timeline song)
- Our poem, Hymn Of Joy will be assessed on 11/28
