This Week in Room 8 (9/18 to 9/22)

ELA:
This week we continue our friendship theme in our whole group read alouds.

We will be working on the following skills:

• Comparing and contrasting books on a similar topic
• Summarizing a story with transition words (First, Next, Then, and Last)
• Short o 
• Determining punctuation at the end of a sentence (period, exclamation point, and question mark)

Word Wall Words:

• some
• as
• then
• could
• when

Rooted Mind:

• Our root for the week is -form.

Math:

This week we will continue working on the following skills:

• organizing data and interpreting a graph
• understanding numbers up to 120 (what comes before and after, starting and any given number and continuing to count, and counting a set of objects and determining the numeral)

Science:
We will continue Unit 1: Plant and Animal Parts.

Leader in Me:

This week we will be working on setting up classroom goals, personal goals, and how we can track our progress to reach our goals.

We will also introduce Habit 4. We will learn how we can work together, take turns, and compromise so everyone can reach their goals.