Learning Goals for Sept. 13-17


Posted on September 13, 2021
Hello everyone and happy Homecoming Week! We are going to have a wonderful week!

Reading: We are continuing working with Realistic Fiction, as well as characters and the changes they undergo in a story. Our academic vocabulary this week is: character, internal and external traits, character changes; feelings, dialogue, thoughts, behavior and motive. (3.3A,B; 3.4 ; 3.5; 3.6 C,E,G,I; 3.7B,D).

Reading homework goes home today. Please email if you have any questions!

Writing/ Language Arts: We are continuing our work with parts of speech and how these parts improve our writing. Our focus this week will be on contractions (contractions with not, all, would, are, have), as well as singular, plural, common, and proper nouns. (3.11D iv, v; 3.2Biii; 3.11D).

Social Studies: The History of White Oak (3.2B)

Important Dates to remember:
PICTURE DAY: September 16 Continue reading →

Learning Goals for Aug 30- Sep 3

Hello all!

Reading: This week we will be going deeper into types of fiction and fiction story elements. We are also beginning ABC order to the 3rd and 4th letter. We will learn story vocabulary from our stories this week.

Writing: We are continuing work on the 4 types of sentences, as well as reviewing nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

Social Studies: Me on the Map-city

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Ice Cream Friday’s

Beginning Friday, September 3rd, students will be able to purchase ice cream during their lunch from the cafeteria for $1. Students must bring money from home or have money in their lunch account to buy ice cream. Be sure that your child understands that Ice Cream is an extra purchase and is not included in the free lunches being offered this year.

Sample Spelling Test

Here is a sample of what the spelling test will be on Friday. This is just an example, not the actual test. We are testing the skills and not memorization of words! As always, please let us know if you have any questions!

Learning Goals for August 23-27

Hello all! It was a busy first week and we are headed into our second week, ready to work! This week we will:

Reading: We’re continuing with Fiction work. We are still reviewing the difference between fiction and nonfiction, as well as reviewing the characteristics of fiction (character, setting, problem/solution, and theme). TEKS for fiction work are: 3.1C,D,E; 3.6A,B,C,F; 3.8A,B,C; 3.10A,E. We will read Sophie’s Masterpiece and Under the Lemon Moon as our Read Alouds. We are also continuing to work on open and closed syllable work, which will make our spelling test this week.

Writing: We are still reviewing grammar rules: Grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives review (anchor chart: review parts of speech. Students will add to interactive notebook and use post it notes to add to chart). We are also practicing with the types of sentences: interrogative, exclamatory, imperative and declarative, as well as the punctuation that goes with these. (3.2Bi)

SPELLING TEST ON FRIDAY: We will take our test, showing how we segment words into syllables and labeling the syllables.

Social Studies: We are working with Me on the Map.(3.2; 3.5 ABCD Maps)

Important Information:

*STUDENTS still need a water bottle each day.

*Pep Rally Friday! Students must have a filled out pep rally note by Friday!

Learning Goals for Aug. 16-20

We are working hard already! We will be working on the following skills:

Reading: We are reviewing nonfiction, fiction, sequence, characters and listening skills (3.3B; 3.4A). We will be reading “Enemy Pie” and “The Can Man”. We will learn the following academic vocabulary: realistic fiction, genre, character, setting, problem, solution, theme, message. Our story vocabulary is: Enemy, kindness, confused, boomerang, panicked, recipe, approach.

Writing and Spelling: We are reviewing nouns, verbs, adjectives and punctuation. Our SPELLING will be for the next two weeks. We are learning open and closed syllables and how to segment the word. There will not be a list to study, as we don’t test memorization. We test how they use the skill.

Social Studies: We are reviewing ME in my School.

UPCOMING EVENTS: Community Pep Rally, Aug, 20, 2021

As always, please let me know if you have any questions!