• Students will receive homework weekly. Here is a list of skills that we will be working to master for the quarter that can be used as a guide to provide additional support at home.

     

     

     

    Quarter 3

    Reading Skills to Practice

    •  Spell simple words phonetically (spell words as they sound.)
    • Understand that words are and should be separated by spaces.
    • Read and write words with the same spelling patterns. (example: say, day,  ride, hide, lamp, ramp )
    • Recognize and name all upper/lower case letters of the alphabet.
    • Express ideas, and respond in complete sentences so that everyone can understand.
    • Write simple sentences using proper capitalization and punctuation.
    • Print all upper and lowercase letters.
    • Count and state the number of syllables in words.
    • Identify middle and final sounds in three letter words.
    • Blend three sounds together to state one syllable words. (e.g. f-o-x = fox)
    • Break words into sounds to read unknown words (example: d-e-s-k = desk)
    • State the meaning of suffixes: -ed, -ing, -s.
    • Recognize short and long vowel sounds.
    • Read at least 75 sight words with consistency.
    • Retell two or more key details in a text (with prompting and support).
    • Explain how illustrations, and other text features such as: charts, graphs, drawings, images and captions support and extend the text (with prompting and support).

    Math Skills to Practice

    • Count to 75 and identify numbers up to 75.
    • Count by 10’s to 100.
    • Count by 5’s to 50.
    • Write numbers 0-20.
    • Count on from any number up to 75.
    • Understand that word problems can be represented and solved using objects, drawings, mental images, fingers or equations.
    • Identify a missing number in as sequence.
    • Understand that teen numbers are composed of a group of ten and some more. (e.g. 13 is one group of ten and three ones left over.)
    • Equations can be built by decomposing numbers in more than one way. ( e.g. 5-3=2 or 5-2=3)
    • Numbers can be composed by combining numbers. (addition)
    • Numbers can be decomposed by separating numbers into parts. (subtraction)