Religion

Students will:

• Explain the prayer Jesus taught his disciples
• Explain how God provides for his creation
• Recognize that Jesus wants us to trust God our Father with our cares
• Define petition and praise

Math

Students will:

• Start chapter 1: addition and subtraction strategies
• use the Commutative Property and Identity Property to find sum
• use a number line to count on when adding
• use doubles and near doubles to find sums
• make a 10 to solve addition problems

Phonics

Students will:

• Read and spell words that have am, an, ang, ank, ing, ink, ong, onk, ung, unk (glued sounds)
• Read and spell words with ar controlled vowels
• Review trick words, full, pull, shall
• Practice new trick words - both, talk, walk

Reading

Students will:

• Identify evidence in the text, How Do You Know It’s Fall?, to answer the question “how do the changes in fall weather impact people and nature?
• Build understanding of sentence elements by identifying the verbs that correspond with the subject
• Begin to write an informative paragraph answering the question, “how do the changes in fall weather impact people and nature?
• Combine their learning about change in fall and informational texts
• Combine simple sentences into compound sentences about fall using conjunctions
• Compare the whole message and partial message in conversations
• Use information from illustrations and text to ask and answer questions about The Little Yellow Leaf
• Orally retell the story of The Little Yellow Leaf using sentence frames
• Explain why evidence is important in informative writing
• Understand shades of meaning and how word choice affects the text

Science

Students will:

• investigate which kinds of birds are likely to visit a bird feeder based on what they eat.
• draw their own bird feeder design to attract a specific type of bird
• build a prototype of their bird feeder using available materials