Vestal School

February:

Literacy Goals:
Unit 3 Week 3:
Jan’s New Home
Why changes are exciting?
Phonics skills: Ending –es (rushes, mixes), Plural –es (dishes, glasses) , and controlled or (fort, fork), ore (store, chore).
High Frequency words: away, car, friends, house, our, school, very.
Unit 3 Week 4:
Frog and Toad Together
What changes happen in a garden?
Phonics skills: Inflected endings:-ed, -ing (petted, petting), and r- controlled ar (hard, cart, artist)
High Frequency words: afraid, again, few, how, read, soon
Unit 3 Week 5:
I’m a Caterpillar
What changes can we observe in nature?
Phonics skills: r- controlled er, ir, ur (dirt, fur, germ), and Contractions ‘s, ‘ve, ‘re (I’ve, we’re, he’s)
High Frequency words: done, know, push, visit, wait
Unit 3 Week 6:
Where Are My Animal Friends?
How does nature change during the year?
Phonics skills: Comparative endings (smarter, smartest), and introduce –dge /j/ (edge, bridge)
High Frequency words: before, does, good-bye, oh, right, won’t

Math Goals:
-Finish Building Number Sense Unit
Counting and comparing quantities
Additions combinations
Finding the total of two (or more) quantities
Recording strategies to problem solve using pictures,
numbers, and words.
Reading, writing, and sequencing numbers to 100.
Developing strategies for solving combining and separating problems.

-Begin Quilt Squares and Block Towns Unit
Observing, describing, visualizing, and comparing 2-D and 3-D
shapes and their characteristics.
Constructing, and representing  2-D and 3-D shapes.
Developing vocabulary to describe 2-D and 3-D shapes.
Building pattern by repeating a unit square.
Creating and using 2-D representations of 3-D shapes and objects.
Constructing 3-D shapes from 2-D shapes and representations.
Visualizing, describing, and comparing paths between 2 locations.

 
February Calendar