Important Dates & Reminders

• October 9, 2023- Indigenous Peoples Day! Student Holiday
• October 11, 2023- Bucknell Zoo Field Trip 
• November 3, 2023- End of 1st Quarter- 2 hour Early Release for Students
• Testing Dates
  • October 10, 2023 - CogAT: Getting Started Domain
  • October 12, 2023 - CogAT: Getting Started and Verbal Domain
  • October 17, 2023 -  CogAT: Quantitative Domain
  • October 19, 2023 - CogAT: Non-Verbal Domain

What are we learning?

Language Arts

Reading Unit: Understanding Characters 

• Students should understand the elements of fiction: characters, setting, and plot events.
• Students should understand how the smaller details are important to comprehend the larger text.

Phonics

• /s/ blends - spelling and reading words that have blends such as /sp/ (e.g., spin), /sk/ (e.g., skin), /sm/ (e.g., smell), etc.. 
• FLSZ Rule - double -ff, -ll, -ss, -zz in one syllable words with short vowels (examples: stuff, fill, class, and jazz)
• Read compound words (e.g., sandbox)
• Read / spell open syllables and closed syllables 

Writing Unit: Personal Narratives

• Students will write personal narratives about small moments in their life that were significant or meaningful to them. 

Math

Unit 1-Counting and Fluency to 20

Students should… 

• Count forward by twos, fives, and tens to 120, starting at various multiples of 2, 5, or 10
• Count backward by tens from 120
• Determine whether a number is even or odd
• Use addition and subtraction to solve single-step story problems 

Unit 2 Building Base Ten Concepts

Students should… 

• Read, write, and identify the place value of each digit in a two digit numeral
• Identify the number that is 10 more and 10 less than a given number up to 99
• Compare and order whole numbers 1-99
• Round two-digit numbers to the nearest ten

Science

Monarch’s, Milkweed, and Mexico

Students will: 

• Understand plant and animal responses to seasons and their life cycles
• Identify living vs nonliving things and their needs

Social Studies

Being an Ethical and Global Citizen

• Students will continue to practice being a kind, caring, classroom citizen.

United States Symbols and Traditions

• Student will explain why people honor and celebrate major holidays including Labor Day and Indigenous Peoples Day

United States Geography

• Name and locate seven continents and five oceans 
• Identify and locate equator, Prime Meridian, and four hemispheres 
• Locate major rivers, mountain ranges, lakes, and other physical features in the United States

Questions to ask your child at home.

Reading

• Who were the characters in the story? How did they feel at the beginning, middle and end of the book?
• What was the setting of the story?
• What was the conflict? What was the resolution?

Writing

• What are you writing about? 
• What other ideas do you have? What memories could you write about? What small moments could you write about?

Phonics

• What /s/ blend are you hearing / how would you spell skill, slam, smug, snap, spent, frost, swish, etc.? 
• Can you use the FLOSS rule to spell off, bell, still, mess, grass, jazz, etc.?

Math 

• Is ___ an even or odd number? (Does it have a leftover?)
• What is ten less than ____? What is ten more than ______?
• Can you tell me ways to make 5, ways to make 10, ways to make 20?