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Week of March 8-12
Math quizzes - Tuesday
15-8=7 Thursday 16-8=8
Friday- Religion chapter 17
test
Spelling words-
cannot, pancake, maybe,
baseball, playground, someone, myself, classroom, sunshine, outside, upon,
nothing, into, inside, nobody, everywhere
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Religion |
Unit 4 - Jesus Gives Us the Gift
of Himself
Chapter 17- Jesus Invites Us-At
Mass, God's family gathers to worship and give thanks.
vocabulary- altar
Chapter 17 test Friday. |
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Phonics |
Unit 5-
Contractions, plural endings s, es, ing, ed |
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Math |
Unit 5 - Chapter 14 - Counting Money
- Count on to find the value of a group of pennies, nickels, and dimes; id
a quarter and half-dollar and count on to find the value of a group of
coins; count on to find the value of a group of coins; identify coin
combinations greater than and equal to a dollar; show equal amounts with
different coin combinations; make a list to solve problems
Vocabulary - dime, nickel, penny, cent sign; half-dollar, quarter,
dollar sign, decimal point; equal amount
Timed Quizzes - Tues:
15-8=7 Thurs: 16-8=8
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Science |
Unit D- Weather and
Space ( pp.270-345) Chapter 8 -
The Solar System
Lesson 1 - What Are the Stars and
Planets? (pp. 308 - 315)
Lesson 2- What Causes Day and
Night? ( pp 316-323)
vocabulary- solar system, planet, orbit,
star, constellation, rotate
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Social Studies |
Unit 4 - People Long Ago
Lesson 1 (pp. 172 - 175 - People &
Places Change
Lesson 2 (pp. 178 - 183) - Early
America
Vocabulary - past, present, future,
change, diagram, history, colony, settler, source
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Handwriting |
We have
started learning our cursive letters. We will start with the lowercase
letters. We have learned the cursive i, t, u, w, e, l, b, h, f, k, r, s, j
, p, a, d, g, o, c, q, m, n, y and x. The children may
practice these at home. Please do not have the children practice the
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Spelling |
Unit 25 - pp. 162 - 167 - This lesson
teaches the concept of compound words. Children learn the strategy
of thinking of some long words as being made up of two shorter words that
have familiar spelling patterns.
Spelling Words -
cannot, pancake, maybe, baseball,
playground, someone, myself, classroom, sunshine, outside, upon, nothing,
into, inside, nobody, everywhere and two chosen words
Test on Friday.
Dictation will be given.
Spelling City
is a great website for studying our spelling words. This site can be found
under Spelling under Educational Links on our 2nd grade webpage. You need
to click on Find A List. Then type in Kathy Bechtold. Click
on "Kathy Bechtold.: Then click on what unit we are studying. |
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Reading |
Theme 3 - Around Town -
Neighborhood and Community.
Listening Comprehension
- Listen to identify the topic, main idea, and supporting details.
Teacher Read Aloud "Road Work Ahead"
Reading -
Comprehension Skill
- Topic, main idea, details; Comprehension Strategy -
Questioning; The children will read the story A Trip to the Firehouse.
Key Vocabulary
- chief, emergencies, firefighters, dispatch, fire engine, gear
High-Frequency Words
- clothes, guess, order
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English |
Special nouns (proper
nouns); more than one (plural); nouns that change spelling in the plural; tangrams |
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