FUNDATIONS:

• Review digraphs, blends, bonus letters, glued sounds, and long vowels
• Learn vowel teams like ea, ee, ai, oo, ou, ue.
• More complicated Trick Words
• Silent e
• Control R words
• Multisyllabic Words

We will be learning these new concepts through dictations, white boards, and drill cards.

RIGBY READING PROGRAM

• Shared reading (big books)

• Making predictions
• Activate prior knowledge
• Recalling facts in order
• Character description
• Inferential conclusions
• Descriptive language
• Rhyming
• Poetry
• Classifying/Categorizing

GUIDED READING

• Comprehension Strategies
• Fantasy vs. reality
• Compare and contrast
• Recognizing emotions
• Make predictions
• Types of writing
• Non-fiction vs. fiction
• Personal interpretations
• Authors purpose
• Dialogue 

EVERYDAY MATH PROGRAM

• Review number sequences, coins, calculators, tallies, and <,> and =
• Addition and subtraction using
• Frames and Arrows
• Dominos
• Function Machines
• Base 10 Blocks

• Time
• Graphing
• Number Stories
• Temperature
• Making Change
• Geometry- Shapes
• Beginning Multiplication (end of year)

SCIENCE

• Soils
• Weighing and Balancing
• Life Cycles

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Native Americans
• Continents
• Maps
• Globes
• Family Ethnicity

I also talk about all the holidays around the world. If anyone celebrates a holiday and would like to come talk about your traditions and or teach something, please let me know.