Week 14: ​Dec 6-Dec 10

MATH
Number Talks

• estimating length and amounts using clues

Subtracting

• 2- and 3- digit numbers with regrouping by using base 10 blocks and a place value chart

LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading

• building independent reading stamina​ with levelled books

Word Work (navigate to the "subject info" tab and select the sorts for this week)

• Yellow Sort 11 (-ug, -ut, -un words)
• Orange Sort 16 (/h/, /sh/, and /ch/)
• Green Sort 32 (-ick, -ack, -ock, -uck words)
• Blue Sort 12 (final /k/ sound with -ck, -ke, and -k endings)

Story Making

• developing and improving oral language skills
• retelling a story
• incorporating new skills into story making
• cross-curricular with Social-Emotional learning and Science

Journals

• write facts about water
• write about what you learned from our Mystery Doug episode

SCIENCE
Mystery Doug

• Watch Mystery Doug weekly mini-lessons, discuss, and write or build something to show our learning and understanding

What if you had an animal ______? (read aloud)

• Learn about how animal eyes, ears, teeth, etc. help them survive in their environments and what a human could do with those features.

SOCIALS
Holidays Around the World 

• Use a world map to help notice where each country/tradition is that we learn about
• Learn about how the holidays are celebrated in France, Germany, Holland, and Israel
• Complete an Eiffel tower ornament, and make and play with a dreidel 

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING
​Second Step Lesson 3 (new curriculum)

• With adult support, students will be able to describe the connection between their own practice and changes to the networks in their brain.