WELCOME TO MRS.
LAWSON'S
CLASS
Unit 1 Lesson 1 What is a Pal?
Focus Question
What is important about being a friend?
Spelling Words
Am at sat
man dad mat
High Frequency Words
And you be
play help with
Oral Vocabulary
Excellent suddenly miss invitation ruin beautiful
What We’re Learning
Reading: Fluency; Accurate word recognition, Comprehension; Main Idea, summarize, informational texts.
Your child will be bringing home a leveled reader each day for practice at home. He\she can read to you as part of their daily reading for their reading log.
Phonics: Words with short a, Consonants n, d, p, f.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Nouns, Classifying and categorizing words.
Science/ Social Studies:
We will begin a unit study on Johnny Appleseed the beginning of September.
Lesson 2 The Storm
Focus Question
What happens during a storm?
Spelling Words
If is him
Rip fit pin
High Frequency Words
For what have
He look too
Oral Vocabulary
Bandits chattered brave ears still steady
Lesson 3 Curious George at School
Focus Question
Why is going to school important?
Spelling Words
Log dot top hot
Ox lot
High Frequency Words
Do find sing no
Funny they
Oral Vocabulary
Apart worried sneaked
Crept snout proud
Reading: Fluency; Accuracy:words connected in text, Comprehension; Understanding characters, realistic fiction, inference and prediction.
Your child will be bringing home a leveled reader each day for practice at home. He\she can read to you as part of their daily reading for their reading log.
Phonics: Words with short i, Consonants r, h, s, b, g, phonogram –it.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Possessive Nouns
Math: Chapter 3 addition will begin this week.
What We’re Learning
Reading: Fluency; phrasing, punctuation; sequence of events; multiple meaning words.
Your child will be bringing home a leveled reader each day for practice at home. He\she can read to you as part of their daily reading for their reading log.
Phonics: Words with short o; consonants l, x, and s.
Vocabulary/Grammar: action verbs
Math: Chapter 2: Subtraction Concepts. We will be studying beginning subtraction concepts in this chapter. Our book bounces back and forth with addition and subtract. Although it is very difficult, there is a purpose. The National Center for Teaching Mathematics says that it is better to teach addition and subtraction this way so that students can see the correlation\relationship between the two.
Science/ Social Studies:
We will begin a unit study on Johnny Appleseed
Lesson 4 Lucia's Neigborhood
Focus Question
Who can you meet in a neighborhood?
Spelling Words
Yet web pen
Wet leg hen
High Frequency Words
All me does my who
Oral Vocabulary
Canvas important
Rhythm combinations
Row ease
Reading: Fluency; intonation; author’s word choice.
Your child will be bringing home a leveled reader each day for practice at home. He\she can read to you as part of their daily reading for their reading log.
Phonics: Words with short e; consonants y, w, k, v, j; phonogram –et.
Vocabulary/Grammar: alphabetical order; adjectives
Gus Takes the Train
Focus Question
What happens on the train?
Spelling Words
hug bug up
nut mud tub
High Frequency Words
Full friend many
Pull hold good
Oral Vocabulary
Steady worried row
important
What We’re Learning
Reading: Fluency; Self Correction; Questioning Strategies; Adjectives/Synonyms
Your child will be bringing home a leveled reader each day for practice at home. He\she can read to you as part of their daily reading for their reading log.
Phonics: Words with short u; Consonant qu, z.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Synonyms and adjectives
Lesson 7 How Animals Communicate
Focus Question
How do animals communicate?
Spelling Words
in will did
sit six big
High Frequency Words
Animal how make
Of some why
Oral Vocabulary
Baby bird bees down
dance elephants food smell
What We’re Learning
Reading: Fluency: Rate.
Phonics: Short i, blends with r, and the phonogram –ip.
Comprehension: Main idea and details, text and graphic features.
Your child will be bringing home a leveled reader each day for practice at home. He\she can read to you as part of their daily reading for their reading log.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Using the Glossary, Commas in a series.
Math: Chapter 3 Doubles +/- One
Lesson 17 The Big Trip
Spelling Words
Me be read feet tree
Keep eat mean sea these
High Frequency Words
About by car could don’t
Maybe sure there
Oral Vocabulary
Shelter delighted complain
Pleaded lonely horizon
Focus Question
What are some different ways to travel?
What We’re Learning
Reading: Compare and Contrast, dialogue, and visualizing.
Fluency: Correct phrasing at punctuation marks when reading.
Phonics: long e, vowel pairs ee and ea, final ng, nk and the phonogram ink.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Defining words and compound sentences.
Math: Chapter 7: Comparing Numbers will be finished this week. Test on Tuesday.
Reading, and Spelling
tests will be on Friday.
Lesson 18 Where do foods come from?
Focus Question
Where does food come from? What do farmers need to grow food?
We will be studying about where food comes from this week. Please be in conversation with your child about his\her favorite meal and where each part used in making it comes from.
Spelling Words
Play grain sail mail may
Rain way day stay pain
High Frequency Words
First food ground right
Sometimes under your these
Oral Vocabulary
Eagerly scampered slippery spotted disappointed fancy
What We’re Learning
Reading: Author’s purpose, conclusions, summarization.
Fluency: Using expression in fluent reading.
Phonics: Vowel pairs ai, ay, contractions with ‘ll and ‘d, phonograms ay and ain.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Names of Months, Days and Holidays.
Math: We will be working in chapter 8 this week. You can refer to the Chapter 8 School-to-Home letter about the chapter in your child’s homework folder. (Sent home last week)
Reading and Spelling
tests will be on Friday.
Lesson 19 Tomas Rivera
Focus Question
Why is it important to learn about people from the past?
Our story focuses on how life was in the past. To extend the topic and tie in with President’s Day, we will be studying historical figure. Please be in conversation with your child about the presidents. We will learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Spelling Words
Show row grow low blow
Snow boat coat road toad
High Frequency Words
Done great laugh paper
Soon talk were work
Oral Vocabulary
Author permission signature exactly incomplete welcomed
What We’re Learning
Reading: Narrative Writing: personal narrative, focus on organization in writing.
Fluency: Intonation
Phonics: Vowel pairs oa, ow, contractions with ‘ve, and ‘re, phonograms ow and oat.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Synonyms and future tense.
Math: We will continue with chapter 8 this week. You can have conversations with your child to help them master the concept of adding tens. You can count on by tens easily with a hundred chart!
Reading and Spelling
tests will be on Friday
Lesson 21 Frog and Toad
Focus Question
What grows in a garden?
You can talk to your child this week about what plants grow in a garden. You can discuss what foods grow under or above the ground.
Spelling Words
Far arm yard art jar bar barn bark card yarn
High Frequency Words
Few window shall night loudly
Noise world story
Oral Vocabulary
Whispered clues detectives
Clever poked sneaky
What We’re Learning
Reading: Repetitiion and Analyze & evaluate.
Fluency: Natural pauses.
Phonics: r-controlled vowel- ar, or, ore.
Phonograms ar, ore.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Prefix re and subject pronouns.
Math: Chapter 9 will begin on Tuesday. You should find a school to home letter in your child’s folder.
Lesson 22 Amazing Animals
Focus Question
Why do some animals have spots or stripes?
You can talk to your child this week about animal camouflage and how it affects animals.
Spelling Words
Her fern girl sir stir
bird fur hurt turn third
High Frequency Words
Baby begins eight follow learning until years young
Oral Vocabulary
Roamed sparkling misty promised receive slender
Reading: visualizing, using context clues, drawing conclusions.
Fluency: Accuracy of connected text.
Phonics: r-controlled vowel- er, ir, ur.
Vocabulary/Grammar: Pronouns I and me.
Math: Chapter 9. We will begin telling time this week.
Lesson 24 A Tree is a Plant
Focus Question
What happens to a tree as it grows?
You can talk to your child this week about the life cycle of plants and what job specific parts of plants do.
Spelling Words
Soon new noon zoo boot too moon blew soup you
* Grew * scoop
High Frequency Words
Ready kinds covers country earth warms soil almost
Oral Vocabulary
Gentle completely settle reflection lonely recognize
What We’re Learning
Reading: Figurative language
Fluency: Expression
Phonics: vowel digraph oo. Spelling patterns ou, ew, ue, u, u_e.
Vocabulary/Grammar: multiple meaning words and indefinite pronouns.
Math: This week we will complete chapter 9 measurement. We will have our chapter 9 test.
