Mrs. Finch's Class News
Vol. 1, Issue 11
Academic Focus: Week of December 7, 2015
Reading/ELA
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details
Reading Strategy: Summarize
Students are expected to identify the main idea in a text and distinguish it from the topic.
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffix -ly
Phonics: Long o o, oa, ow
Students will spell words with vowel digraphs and dipthongs.
Grammar: Using Proper Nouns
Students are expected to use capitalization for proper nouns.
Writing: Expository Writing/How to Build a Snowman
Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes.
Math
Place Value
Students are expected to use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 1,200 in more than one way as a sum of so many thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones.
Science
Rocks
Students are expected to observe and describe rocks by size, texture, and color.
Weekly Spelling Words
2. most
3. soap
4. float
5. both
6. know
7. loan
8. goat
9. flow
10. loaf
11. throw
12. coach
Review: so, grow
Homework:
Monday--Tree Map/Word Sort
Tuesday--ABC Order (10 words)
Wednesday--Vowels/Consonants (same words as ABC order)
Thursday--5 Spelling Sentences or Spelling Story (5 words)
This will be our last week of word study practice/homework until 2016!
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Submit Yearbook Photos Online!
Limo Rides for Big Kahuna Fundraiser
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2015, 11:00 AM
CiCi's Pizza, Adams Drive, Weatherford, TX, United States
Austin Spirit Night at Chick-fil-A
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2015, 04:00 PM
Chick-fil-A, South Main Street, Weatherford, TX, United States
Latte In The Library
Note the real time for this event is 12:50-1:20 (I couldn't edit it).
Wednesday, Dec 16, 2015, 12:45 PM
Austin Elementary School, Weatherford, TX, United States
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
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