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September:
School days, Mother Goose, ABC's, Colors, Seasons, Bears
October:
Farms and farm animals (owls, bats, spiders, mice,) Pumpkins and Halloween
November:
Native Americans, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, Dinosaurs
December:
Fairy Tales, Cultural Celebrations
January:
Winter, Snow, Arctic, Antarctic, Martin Luther King, Jr.
February:
Groundhog Day, Chinese New Year, 100th Day of School, Presidents, America, Dental Health, Valentines' Day
March:
Dr. Seuss, St. Patrick's Day, Animals, Spring, Eggs
April:
Mammals, Birds, Insects, Amphibians
May:
Mother's Day, Reptiles, Space
June:
Father's Day, Oceans, Marine Life, Summer
Classroom Academic Foci:
Book Structure:
Notice how Fiction and Expository Texts are organized to help a reader learn and enjoy a book.
Comprehension:
Fictional stories use characters (main and minor,) settings, problems and solutions.
Expository Texts use pictures, captions, indexes, print variations, illustrations, and more to give a reader the structure to facilitate learning.
Decoding skills:
Use a reading finger and point to each word read; check the first letter of a word and get your mouth ready; check the pictures, match the pictures to the words read, look for chunks, think "What word makes sense?"
Practice fluency through the use and recognition of basic sight words in reading and writing.
Read with expression and smoothness.
Printing:
Learn how to use guidelines and how to print capital and lower case letters properly, and how to use punctuation, to help your reader understand your ideas.
Illustrating:
Learn how to create identifiable pictures to help your reader understand your ideas.
Math Focus:
Number sense and writing numbers properly, time, money, measurement, geometric shapes
School Skills Focus:
Develop self- control, do "Quality Work," and demonstrate good citizenshiip.
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