What We Are Learning

October
* Early Explorers and Settlers
   (Christopher Columbus, Cortez and Pizzaro, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Lost 
Colony, Jamestown, the Pilgrims)

Word Wall Words for October:
Week 7     Week 8      Week 9     Week 10
many        ride       stop       know
more        back       only       most
less        first      open       thing
find        live       sound      very
old         give       take       love

Learning how to determine the sequence of a story:
Characters
Setting
Problem/Solution
Retelling using   Beginning/ Middle/ End

Writing:
Writing personal Narratives

Math:
Number stories and number bonds
Whole/Part-part
Part-part/Whole
Addition and subtraction

November:
*Matter- Solids, Liquids, Gases and how to measure them

Word Wall Words for November
week 11     Week 12    Week 13    Week 14
write       man        think      much           
our         place      great      before               
number      year       help       line      
people      work       through    right             
little      sentence   part       night   

Learning about making sense in our reading
Making words 

Writing: 
Writing for readers

Math:
Subtraction to 10
Ordinal Numbers
Numbers to 20