Week of September 7

Here is what we are studying this week:

Spelling:  We will begin studying our words this week.  I plan to send home words this Friday for students to study for next week.

Reading:
This week we will be working on making connections within a text.  The 3 types of text connections are:  Text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world.
Students will be working on vocabulary journals to go along with our read aloud of the week.  This weeks book is Roxaboxen, by Barbara Cooney.  There will be a vocabulary test on Friday.

Math:
Math this week will focus on addition and subtraction with some regrouping and borrowing.  We did this last year, so this is a review for most of the students.

Science:
Last week our classes adopted the tree below.  We will be observing the changes in this tree over the entire year.  This week we are going to take a closer look at leaves and the different types of leaves.