Penguins in Peril
Skills for the week: Students will: review the genres Fiction and Non-Fiction and learn strategies to identify the type of book they are reading, learn about synonyms and shades of meaning and the -ow and -oa spelling pattern.
Spelling list: Students will work on words in the -oa and -ow word families:
tow
mow
blow
grow
coat
goat
load
road
Tricky words
their
if
will
Extended List
peril
subway
* Did you know that words that have the long o sound in the middle of the word will typically be the oa spelling pattern and words with the long o sound at the end of the word will have the -ow pattern?
Our spelling words start to get more challenging now and your child may need more practice at home.
Math Skills for the week:
This week the students will: review the meaning of the = symbol and are introduced to the < and > relation symbols, determine if addition and subtraction equations are true and make false equations true, and to apply place value understanding to write numbers up to 100 on number scrolls, and measuring 3 separate line segments and finding a total.
Vocabulary words: equal, greater than, less than, true, false, equations, number scroll, line segment, total
Greater than, Less than and Equal
The children will learn about the 3 comparing symbols and apply them in addition and subtractions sentences.
Equal
Students will learn to determine if the equations on each side are true and if not correct one side to make it true.
