Contraction Surgery

Today, we pretended we were doctors working on our "patients." Our patients were words that wanted to be contractions. Students cut off letters that they didn't need to make a contraction, and then put an apostrophe band-aid on the words so they could heal. One student said, "This is like a game, but we're learning!" Another student said, "I wish we could do this everyday!" I loved their excitement and energy as we learned and had fun!

Skills Spotlight 3/4/2013-3/8/2013

BIBLE
-Jesus and the Children/ Lost Lamb
-Feeding the Five Thousand
-Jesus Walks on Water


We are memorizing the books of the bible, and Jeremiah 29:11.

MATH

Skills:
-Greater than and less than
-Place value
-Adding three two digit numbers together
-Benchmark Numbers
-Number Lines

PHONICS/LANGUAGE

Special Sounds:
ure in pure
ture in pasture

Skills:
-Pronouns
-Verbs
-Commas in a series (I like to eat apples, bananas, and oranges.)
-Commas in dates (Friday, February 8, 2013)
-Suffixes (drop the y add the suffix)
-ABC order
-Common Nouns
-Proper Nouns
-Possessive Nouns

READING

Skills:
-Author's Purpose
-Retelling a story (Characters, Setting, Problem, Details, Solution)

SPELLING
List 23
wanted
lifted
painted
sounded
looked
thanked
washed
kicked
played
prayed
joined
sighed
snowed
don't
here