October 2023
This month we will focus on the following:
Religion: Sacrament of Baptism, Sacrament of Confirmation, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and Ordinary Time
Math: Math Olympics, fact families, missing addends, word problems, place value of two digit numbers, comparing numbers, ordering numbers, from least to greatest, and greatest to least, estimating amounts, and rounding to the nearest 10
Reading: We will continue to read realistic fiction stories and discuss what makes a story realistic, how illustrations in the story help us to understand what we are reading, synonyms, we will learn our third syllable type vowel consonant silent -e, initial consonant blends, main idea
Phonics: short and long vowels, initial and final consonant blends, base words and base words with inflected endings, initial and final digraph sounds
English: compound sentences, subjects and predicates, conjunctions and prepositions, interrogative, declarative and exclamatory sentences, proper nouns
Writing: We will continue to work on letter formation, neatness and accuracy when writing our letters in our writing workbook
Science: How plants adapt to their environment, plants that grow in the prairie and near water