Weekly Update

We will be starting this week's story on Tuesday.

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Animals: How are people and animals important to one another?	Which wild animals live in our neighborhood?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Short e (ĕ) Initial consonant blends	Short e words: bed   jet   leg   men   net   red   sled   step   ten   wet
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
saw   small   tree   you	bird
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
habitat   hatch   survive   chirp  croak   moist	Ee Letter size