Friday, May 7, 2010

Week of May 10th - May 14th

Kindergarten
Students will continue to work on separating sounds into words. They will work with rhyming words and they will blend sounds to form words. They will be working with three-sound short vowel words (CVC words) such as, map, sad and rat.

1st Grade
Students will begin Unit 13 this week. They will learn about two new suffix endings -ed and
-ing. The trick words for this week are -never, -another, and -day. The vocabulary words are
-blasted and -landing.

2nd Grade
Students have begun conducting research on their polar animals. They will begin this week using the information they gathered to write a nonfiction piece. Students will provide feedback to each other and will progress through the writing steps. They will be responsible for editing and revising their writing.