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         November
 

 

Reminders-

Be sure to save General Mills “BOX TOPS for Education” and Hood milk caps.  Please send them in with your child. This helps earn extra funds for educational materials. Thank you!

 

November 2- In the News

November 8- Early Release at 12:30

November 12- No School- Veteran’s Day Observed

November 15- Mix-It-Up Lunch Grades 1-4

November 16- In the News

November 21-23- No School Thanksgiving Break

November 28- PTA Meeting 7 P.M. Media Center

November 29- Portrait Retakes

November 30- PTA Shop ‘n Wrap

 

Language Arts:

Reading:

Unit 2  Smart Solutions

Phonemic Awareness

Phonics:

Blend sounds of letters to decode

  • Consonant blends and digraphs
  • Short vowels
  • long vowels
  • vowel digraphs
  • diphthongs

Decode words with common word parts

  • Base words and inflected endings
  • Blend syllables to decode multi-syllabic words
  • Compounds

Fluency:

  • Read aloud with accuracy, comprehension, and appropriate Pace/Rate
  • Read aloud with expression/intonation
  • Attend to punctuation in a variety of ways, including choral reading, paired reading, and repeated oral reading
  • Work toward appropriate fluency goals: 85-95 words read correctly per one minute. 

(End-of-Year Goal: 110-120 words correct per minute)

Vocabulary:

  • Read high-frequency words and lesson vocabulary automatically
  • Develop vocabulary through direct instruction, concrete experiences, reading, and listening to text read aloud
  • Use word structure to figure out word meaning
  • Use context clues to determine word meaning of unfamiliar words, multiple-meaning words, homonyms, homographs
  • Use grade-appropriate reference sources to learn word meaning
  • Use new words in a variety of contexts
  • Create and use graphic organizers to group, study, and retain vocabulary
  • Classify and categorize words
  • Use descriptive words

Reading Comprehension

Strategies:

  • Preview the text
  • Set and monitor purpose for reading
  • Activate and use prior knowledge
  • Make, confirm, and modify predictions
  • Monitor comprehension and use fix-up strategies
  • Use graphic organizers to focus on text structure, to represent relationships in text, or to summarize text
  • Generate questions
  • Recognize text structure: story and informational
  • Summarize text by retelling stories or identifying main ideas
  • Visualize; use mental imagery
  • Make connections: text to self, text to text, text to world

Skills:

  • Author’s purpose
  • Draw conclusions
  • Follow directions
  • Graphic sources (charts, diagrams, graphs, maps, tables)
  • Main idea and supporting details
  • Realism/fantasy
  • Sequence of events

Literary Elements:

  • Character (Recognize characters’ traits, actions, feelings, and motives
  • Setting

Language Arts 

Grammar Skills:

  • Common and proper nouns
  • Singular and plural nouns
  • Irregular plural nouns
  • Singular possessive nouns
  • Plural possessive nouns

Writing Skills:

  • Writing in response to literary text
  • Informational writing (Procedural)
  • Narrative-
  • Personal Narrative
  • Model/Practice the 6-trait writing model

Spelling and Phonic Skills:

  • Spell words with syllable patterns V/CV and VC/V.

Generalization: When the vowel sound in the first syllable is long, divide the word after the vowel: pi/lot. When the vowel sound in the first syllable is short, divide the word after the consonant: fin/ish.  The sound of the vowel in the first syllable can be determined how the word is divided.      

  • Spell words that end in –le

Generalization: The final syllable /upside down e l/ is often spelled –le: handle, trouble.

  • Spell words compound words.

Generalization:  A compound word is smaller words joined together.  Keep all the letters when spelling compounds: home + work = homework.  Two words can be joined together to make a new word.  In the new word, pronunciation of smaller words often remains the same.

  • Spell words with long spl-, thr,-, squ-, and str-.

Generalization:  Some words have three letters pronounced together: splash, throw, square, strike.  The letters are spoken together, but each letter can be heard.

  • Spell words with digraphs sh, th, ph, ch, tch.

Generalization: Words can have two or three consonants together that are pronounced as one sound: English, father, trophy, chapter, watch.

 

Frequently misspelled words: favorite, before, pretty, little, people, outside, everyone, something, sometimes, scared, brother, they, there, and their.

Math-

Chapter 3- Addition and Subtraction

Skills:  Adding two-digit numbers, models for adding three-digit numbers, adding three-digit numbers, adding three or more numbers,  Problem solving skill: Draw a picture, regrouping, subtracting two-digit numbers, models for subtracting three-digit numbers, subtracting three-digit numbers, subtracting across zeros, Problem solving skill: Exact answer or estimate, adding and subtracting money, choose a computation method, equality and inequality.

 

Vocabulary: regroup, numerical expression, equation, inequality

 

Social Studies:

Beginning to explore the different regions throughout the United States.  The five regions we will study are northeast, southeast, midwest, southwest, and the west.  In each region we will be exploring the type of land, economy, culture, rocks and minerals, resources, and fun facts. 

 

Vocabulary: 

Northeast: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.  

Landforms/resources: beach, canal, cape, erosion, glacier, gorge, hill, island, lake, lock, marsh, mountain, ocean, peninsula, river, valley, and waterfall.

Rocks/minerals: granite, coal, iron, limestone, marble, and talc.

Fun facts: Hershey, Pennsylvania is the largest produce of chocolate in the country. Pilgrims set out for Virginia but landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania is the home to the Liberty Bell. Washington D.C. is the capitol of the United States

 

West- Alaska, Hawaii, California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho

Landforms/resources: beach, erosion, glacier, canyon, island,

mountain, ocean, river, volcano, Ring of Fire, lake, desert, iceberg, geyser

Rocks/minerals: gold, iron, silver

Crops: lettuce peaces, broccoli, cantaloupes, grapes, strawberries, lemons, figs, almonds, plums, apricots.

Fun Facts: Alaska is the largest state.  Death Valley is around 115

degrees.  Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, and it is in Oregon.  Mt. Waialeale is the rainiest spot on Earth.

 

  



 


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