Each week I will list out learning objectives we are working with.  I will also post links to websites or PowerPoint presentations that we use in class to help students continue their learning at home.  This is helpful to parents as well as it gives you a chance to “see” what we are doing and an opportunity to review the materials and help me make learning a full time experience for my students.

Vocabulary– Students will be able to define and use vocabulary words in sentences.

Grammar– Students will be able to explain that the simple predicate in a sentence is the verb (action word).  Students will be able to identify the simple predicate.  Students will be able to choose a simple predicate to complete a sentence.  Students will be able to identify the direct objective in a sentence as the noun that is receiving the action of the verb.  Students will be able to choose direct objects for sentences so that they make sense.

                     Simple Predicate Example:  Madison and Maren rode their bikes around the block.  (Rode is the verb in this sentence.  It answers the question, what did they do?)

                     Direct Object Example:  Madison and Maren rode their bikes around the block.  (Bikes is the direct object in this sentence.  It answers the question what did they ride?)

Math– Students will be able to recognize and repeat patterns involving numbers, shapes, addition and subtraction operations.  Students will be able to create tables to extend a pattern using multiplication and division.

                                                Example:  2,4,6,8,10, _______,_________,___________  ( pattern = counting by 2’s)

                                                                     4, 7, 10, 13, ______, __________, ___________  (pattern = add 3)

                                                                     Alex’s  age        2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ________, __________,   __________

                                                                    Andy’s age        6, 7, 8, 9, 10, _______, ___________, __________    ( relationship between Alex and Andy’s ages is Andy is 4 years older than Alex)

Social Studies – Students will learn about the election process in local government.

Science– Students will examine rocks to discover how they are created.

Writing– students will craft well written paragraphs with a clear purpose, details, and closing.

Reading:  Students will make text-to-self, text- to-text, and text-to -world connections.  (When reading students will take what they have read and talk about how something similar happened to them- text-to-self, how it reminds them of another book they have read, text-to-text, or how it relates to something going on in the world, in a movie, or a TV show they have seen, text-to-world)