Tuesday, April 1, 2014

ELA in the Spring

During spring trimester the children will be studying the following in English language arts:

*Eric Carle author study
*Blending sounds in words
*Hearing, saying and deleting sounds in words
*exploring word families (-at, -ay, -and, -ake and -ike)
*Lowercase letter writing formation
*Lively Letter practice
*Writing GOOD sentences (beginning with a capital, using spaces between words and ending with punctuation) 
*Creating silly sentence alphabet books
*Writing sequenced stories (first, next and last)
*Writing creative stories