This week in reading, we practiced "wondering" while we read nonfiction stories about a veterinarian and a tiger cub. The new vocabulary words that came from the stories were: wild, tame, creep, pounce.  The word family we worked with was -ock and the popcorn words were: was, saw, are & well.  We have been working on 3 letter bends such as scr, str, squ, spr, & spl. In math we have been working a lot on subtraction and building fluency with math facts within 5.  We took a fun field trip to the DuPage Children's Museum.  It was a great week!  On Wednesday next week, the students will do their Aims web testing on letter sound fluency, phoneme segmentation fluency, missing number and quantity discrimination (both with numbers to 10)
                                                              A Peek At Next Week

Reading: Unit 8: Exploring text features (using expository nonfiction)

New Vocabulary: travel, transportation, depart, land

Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, enormous,  assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, slam, filthy, concerned, moan, enormous, observe, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, wade, mend, cozy, straight, evening, complete, various, edge, fits, cupboard, amusing, upset, grin, stuck, unpleasant, pleasant, crowded, uncrowded, doubtful, confident, courageous, persistent, glance, peer, collide, disappointed, signal, pursue, disappear, warn, healthy, prevent, load, important, useful, similar, repair, communicate, active, haul, switch, swiftly, prey, object, unusual, fact, assist, injure, recover, clever, wild, tame, creep, pounce 

Word Families: -ot, -op, -ock, -ob, -og
Phonemic Awareness: 3 letter s-blends scr, str, squ, spr, spl, review digraph sounds wh, ch, sh, th & l-blends bl, cl, fl,gl, pl, sl & r-blends br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr & s-blends sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying final & medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, language awareness
Math: addition and subtraction fluency, counting by 5's & 10's to 100
Handwriting: practicing and reviewing all letters & numbers
Popcorn Words: pretty, funny, under, find
Library: Mondays (book return/check out) and Wednesdays
Art: Tuesdays
Music: Thursdays and Fridays
Gym & Recess: Everyday
Things to review and practice: 
phonics: recognition & sounds of/making words with s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v, y, x, oo (2 sounds), ch, sh,ng, th, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar 

Counting: forward from 1 and random numbers to 100 and backward from 20. Counting by 10's to 100. Counting by 5's to 100, Number formation, recognition, place value and counting objects #1-20,
Practice popcorn words: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too, ran, into, for, little, and, yes, go, no, so, the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, nine, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come, do, all, there, who, what, where, say, away, play, they, eat, please, want, with, came, make, ate, ride, was, saw, are, well

Read together :)