Grade One/Two Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2014
Happy Tuesday to you! I hope you enjoyed one extra day with your cherubs! We teachers participated in the UW Literacy Conference Friday evening through Saturday afternoon. It was an excellent conference and we have great ideas! I love seminars that provide strategies a teacher can use Monday morning (or in this case, TuesdayJ) Today, Monday; we have some time to share our thoughts about that wonderful weekend event.
That being said, we will adopt some of the new vocabulary strategies discussed this weekend. Reading/language finds us reading two stories about jobs and items used in those jobs, and communities. Our sound is short u as in cut. Other skills are classification, and blends and plural nouns.
In math we will learn about adding doubles. As mentioned earlier, each day we review previously learned skills. We try to use thinking strategies in our program. I feel very strongly about teaching more than just finger counting, which is not always a reliable strategy. David, Ricky, Terry, are former students who relied exclusively on finger counting and did not succeed in higher math; they will be in my heart forever.
Our social studies unit on downtown continues. This week we hope to visit Alsco and Cowgirl Yarn and Snowy River Quilt Shop.
This is a week of high-powered saints in the Church as we today celebrate St. Michael the Archangel, Wednesday St. Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus, Thursday the Guardian Angels, and Saturday St. Francis of Assisi for whom, as you know, our present pope is named. Wow! We will also talk about communicating with God and listening for that “tiny whispering voice” of God.
Spelling words
us hug but bus rug cut bug
hut
Additional second grade words
plug shut drug strut
Homework
Tuesday: spelling sort
Wednesday: religion, read I Kings 19: 9-13. Elijah hears God. Draw a picture of the story
Thursday: reading practice page 64
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