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2. READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS
2016
READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS
This month, we are working on increasing our reading and language arts skills in the areas of:
Word Recognition: Each student’s high frequency word list is individualized and will be added to the Word Wall
Comprehension: Each student participates in leveled reading comprehension instruction and activities. Assignments are individualized based on each student’s needs and performance level
Spelling and Vocabulary: Each student participates in tracing, writing, identifying, or selecting individually assigned spelling and vocabulary words
Writing: Students are working on constructing sentences through a variety of strategies: unscrambling sentences, word matching and word choice
CALENDAR
3rd: Students Return to School
Ways to Reinforce
Skills at Home:
Please find your
student’s vocabulary and spelling lists for practice at home.
MATH
This month, we are working on increasing our reading and language arts skills in the areas of:
Number Sense: Counting, addition, and subtraction
Measurement and Data: Gathering and sorting data and answer questions about information from a graph
Geometry and Spatial Sense: Shape Sorting
Telling Time: Identifying devices for telling time, identifying numbers in time formats, and selecting appropriate time of day when given a picture.
Money: Identifying monetary units through matching, number/values, selecting when given a choice, and selecting the correct number/value
Our concentration topic for the month of August is “Teamwork”. This unit is aligned to the grade level performance standards in
the area of Social Studies.
We are exploring team
sports and team interactions by examining the
Olympics and
Special Olympics.