Theme 3: Around Town: Neighborhood and Community
Theme 3, Around Town: Neighborhood and Community highlights the understanding of a community as a special place where people live, work and play together. We will compare and contrast the many similarities and differences between communities and neighborhoods. Our discussions will also include people that have jobs in a community such as police officers, firefighters, teachers, bankers, doctors, construction workers, and many more. Please let me know if you (or another family member) would be interested in coming to our class to share some interesting facts about your job!
We will read many fiction and non fiction stories including “Chinatown” by William Low, “A Trip to the Firehouse” by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, “Big Bushy Mustache” by Gary Soto, “Jamaica Louise James” by Amy Hest, and
“Barrio: Jose’s Neighborhood” by George Ancona.
In addition, the children have been identifying the topic, main ideas and details of many reading selections. Ask your child to define topic (tells one important idea in a section of a text), main idea (the most important idea in a section of the text), and details (examples that support the main idea). Finally, the children continue to practice writing complete sentences and naming parts of a sentence. They will also continue to write paragraphs with detailed sentences to support their own main idea.
As we continue to build fluency in reading and writing our lessons include learning about nouns, plural words, compound words, vowel pairs (ai, ay, ee, ea), suffixes (ly, ful), and common syllables (tion, ture). The students will also practice identifying the problem and solutions, making inferences, stating the main ideas and supporting details within our stories.
Comprehension Strategy:
Summarize
Question
Predict/Infer
Evaluate
Comprehension Skill:
Making Judgments
Topic/Main Idea/Supporting Details
Problem Solving
Inferences
Phonics/Word Structure:
Consonant digraphs; base words
Vowel Pairs ai, ay; compound words
Vowel pairs ow, ou; suffixes –ly, -ful
Vowel pairs ee, ea; common syllables –tion, -ture
High Frequency Words:
during, heard, lion, winter, clothes, guess, order behind, soldier, story, believe, lady, whole
Theme 3, Around Town: Neighborhood and Community highlights the understanding of a community as a special place where people live, work and play together. We will compare and contrast the many similarities and differences between communities and neighborhoods. Our discussions will also include people that have jobs in a community such as police officers, firefighters, teachers, bankers, doctors, construction workers, and many more. Please let me know if you (or another family member) would be interested in coming to our class to share some interesting facts about your job!
We will read many fiction and non fiction stories including “Chinatown” by William Low, “A Trip to the Firehouse” by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, “Big Bushy Mustache” by Gary Soto, “Jamaica Louise James” by Amy Hest, and
“Barrio: Jose’s Neighborhood” by George Ancona.
In addition, the children have been identifying the topic, main ideas and details of many reading selections. Ask your child to define topic (tells one important idea in a section of a text), main idea (the most important idea in a section of the text), and details (examples that support the main idea). Finally, the children continue to practice writing complete sentences and naming parts of a sentence. They will also continue to write paragraphs with detailed sentences to support their own main idea.
As we continue to build fluency in reading and writing our lessons include learning about nouns, plural words, compound words, vowel pairs (ai, ay, ee, ea), suffixes (ly, ful), and common syllables (tion, ture). The students will also practice identifying the problem and solutions, making inferences, stating the main ideas and supporting details within our stories.
Comprehension Strategy:
Summarize
Question
Predict/Infer
Evaluate
Comprehension Skill:
Making Judgments
Topic/Main Idea/Supporting Details
Problem Solving
Inferences
Phonics/Word Structure:
Consonant digraphs; base words
Vowel Pairs ai, ay; compound words
Vowel pairs ow, ou; suffixes –ly, -ful
Vowel pairs ee, ea; common syllables –tion, -ture
High Frequency Words:
during, heard, lion, winter, clothes, guess, order behind, soldier, story, believe, lady, whole