Week 5
Riggs: Continuing to
learn multiletter phonograms, daily spelling words! Please remember to go over your child’s spelling words with them every
night. They are tested every morning on their words. You can make it fun!
Write in shaving cream, pudding, bathroom markers, dry erase markers on the
window, etc. You can find their words in their Riggs notebook and planner.
Math: Continuing discussing days of the week,
left/right, identifying numbers on a number chart, counting backwards, counting forwards, recognizing
patterns, & writing digital time and
clockface time.
Reading: Nightsong by Ari Berk and Loren Long
Ask and answer
questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories,
including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message
or lesson.
Describe characters,
settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Explain major
differences between books that tell stories and books that give information,
drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
Use illustrations and
details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Distinguish between
information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information
provided by the words in a text.
Use the illustrations
and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
Know and apply
grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
IEW/Writing: Students will continue participating in choral
reading of source texts, recognize nouns, and have fun with action words
(verbs), write key word outlines.
Writing about reading on Writing Wednesday!
Core Knowledge: Ancient Egypt
Students will be able
to identify and describe important pharaohs: Tutankhamen, Hatshepsut.
Students will be able
to explain Ancient Egyptian religion: pyramids, mummies, animal gods, and the
sphinx.
Students will be able
to locate and describe the geography of Africa: The Sahara and the flooding of
the Nile.
Students will
understand the development of writing through hieroglyphics and its impact on
civilization.
