Reading: This month we are focusing on many fun topics in Reading to help enhance our learning.
Our Essential Questions are: What inventions do you know about? What sounds can you hear and how are they made? How do things get built?
We will be focusing on identifying the narrator (the words I, me, my, and we tell us the narrator is inside the story; the words he, she, him, and they or the character’s name tells us the narrator is a speaker outside of the story), asking and answering questions about the story, making and confirming predictions, being able to retell a story in sequential order, automaticity (reading words accurately and at a rate or pace that sounds like speech, not reading too fast or too slow) and expression.
Spelling: R-controlled vowels or, ore, oar. Making the or sound you hear in words like born, core, roar.
Diphthongs ou, ow Making the /ou/ sound you hear in the words like cow and house.Writing: We are learning how to write informational pieces by focusing on true facts about a topic rather than opinions.
Grammar:
Adjectives that compare: -er,-est
We add -er to most adjectives that compare two people, places, or things.
We add -est to compare three or more people, places, or things.
Special Adjectives: a, an and this, that
We use a before a word that begins with a consonant sound. Ex: a hound, a clown
We use an before a word that begins with a vowel sound. Ex: an alligator, an oak tree
We use this when we are talking about a noun that is close. Ex: This pencil is mine.
We use that when talking about a noun that is far away. Ex: Look at that car across the street.
Mechanics:
Capitalize days, months, and holidays.
Capitalize and underline book titles.
Abbreviations: Mister/Mr., Doctor/Dr., Missus/Mrs., Street/St., Avenue/Ave., Road/Rd.
Prefixes: un-, re-
The prefix un- means “not” and re- means “again”
Math: We are working on representing and interpreting data with tally charts and picture graphs. Measuring and comparing lengths of objects using words like longer and longest, shorter and shortest. We will also be working on measuring items with nonstandard units like paperclips or ribbon/string.
Science: We are continuing our learning about plant offspring- seeds, but apply it in engineering. We will look at how seeds falling to the ground from trees is similar to parachutes. We will also be starting a new unit: Space. We will begin this unit by looking at measurement and data to help us understand the size of the moon compared to Earth and learn about objects in space.
Social Studies: We will begin the unit: Culture. We will be exploring various aspects of culture like how people live, what they believe and how they celebrate, as well as cultural differences. We will also be taking a look at folktales and legends passed down from generation to generation in different cultures.
