Team Austin 1A
February 8, 2016
Janell Thach
Celebrating the 100th Day!
Language Arts
Interactive read alouds:
Cranberry Valentine
Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Olive, My Love
Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words
Reader's Workshop
describing characters and the reasons for their actions or feelings
writing brief comments on literary text
comparing and contrasting 2 stories
verbs
combining sentences with and
word choice
Writer's Workshop:
Writing a piece to explain "why" using an opening sentence, closing sentence and giving at least 3 reasons (district writing assessment)
writing about American symbols
Word Work: suffixes and plurals: s/-es
high frequency words: go, number
Dictation on Friday
Math
Addition:
Review of all strategies
problem solving
organizing data into a tally graph and analyzing it
Social Studies / Science
creating a simple timeline / describing time by days, weeks, months or years
patriotic symbols: Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty
explaining the meaning of the United States pledge
Identifying the anthem and motto of the United States
Other
The class Valentine Party will be held on Friday, February 12 beginning at 2:00 p.m. You should have received a letter last week explaining that each learner needs to bring a container to hold their valentines. We look forward to seeing many of you there!