Monday, March 16, 2009

Week of March 16th - March 20th

Kindergarten
Students will work with the following rimes: -ut, -ust, -ump, -unk, & ush. They will continue working with the short u vowel sound. They will blend individual sounds into words and they will segment words into individual sounds. Students will also substitute beginning sounds to form new words. Also, we will engage in a read aloud on "Friday Fun-day."

1st Grade
Students will listen to word endings to identify rhyming words. They will listen to words and will identify the final and/or middle sounds. They will review sight words and compound words. Students will also be introduced to the concept of baseword and suffix. Specifically this week, we will work on adding the suffix -s to basewords. The concept of plurals will also be introduced. We will engage in a read aloud on "Friday Fun-day."

2nd Grade
Students will identify final and medial sounds in words. They will add and delete sounds to form new words. They will work on identifying and spelling two syllable words ending in -le and -er. Students will learn about verbs and will practice adding proper verbs to their sentences during journal writing. They will also be engaged in a read aloud on "Friday Fun-day."