Subjects

Here is what we are learning about this week!

Word Study:

• Distinguishing short vowel sounds
• Reading words with short vowel sounds
  

Reading:

• Reading for a purpose (to be informed or entertained)
• Using strategies to figure out unknown words (sounding out, skipping a word and coming back to it, using picture clues, identifying parts of words that you know.)

Writing:

• Learn how to write a complete sentence
  

• Work on our handwriting
  

Math:

• Decomposing (breaking apart numbers) using manipulatives (ex. the number 10 can be broken into a group of 6 objects and a group of 4 objects or a group of 2, 4, and 4 objects etc.)
• Playing Heidi's game to decompose the number 10 (located at www.fcpsteach.org; look on the side bar and click on mathematics- elementary- scroll down to games)
  

Social Studies:

• Learning about helpers in our school community (principal, assistant principal, nurse, secretary, custodian, teachers, councelor etc.)