Unit 3, Week 2, Whales” “Adelina’s Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the study skills” on “weekly the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.) You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below: Big Idea/Big Question Question of the Week (This is the theme of our unit in class.) (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.) What are some patterns in nature? What patterns in nature guide the lives of animals? Word Analysis Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These are the word parts we are (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning in class.) learning this week.) Homophones Greek Roots: two to too piece peace break bio-, phon, graph brake there their they’re threw through by bye beat beet thrown throne aloud allowed Oral Vocabulary Lesson/Tested Vocabulary (Try using these words in your (These reading words are words from conversations at home.) this week’s main selection.) swans ascent altitude zone lagoon biologist bluff massive migration breaching flock herd ideal rumbling tropical distances Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of letters in manuscript and cursive this week.) j, J Cursive letters Fourth Weekly Reading Study Skills Unit 3, Week 3, Came from the Sea” “How Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the study skills” on “weekly the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.) You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below: Big Idea/Big Question Question of the Week (This is the theme of our unit in class.) (This is the theme/question for
Unit 3, Week 2, “Adelina’s Whales” Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the “weekly study skills” on the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.) You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below: Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.) Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.) What are some patterns in nature? What patterns in nature guide the lives of animals? Word Analysis (These are the word parts we are learning in class.) Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.) Greek Roots: bio-, phon, graph Homophones two to too piece peace break brake there their they’re threw through by bye beat beet thrown throne aloud allowed Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.) Lesson/Tested Vocabulary (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.) swans ascent altitude zone migration breaching flock herd ideal distances lagoon biologist bluff massive rumbling tropical Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of letters in manuscript and cursive this week.) Cursive letters j, J Fourth Weekly Reading Study Skills Unit 3, Week 3, “How Came from the Sea” Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the “weekly study skills” on the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.) You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below: Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.) Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for
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