What Are We Learning?

The girls have learned or are learning the following:

Whole Class
Math

• counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's
• tallying marks
• made a line graph and pictograph as a class
  
• measured things with nonstandard units
• using different math strategies to solve a word problem
  

Geography

• what city, state, country, continent and planet they live on
• 7 continents (N. America, S. America, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, Antarctica)
  

Writing

• noun
• capitals
• complete sentences
  

1st graders
Math

• patterning- create a pattern, label a pattern and continue a pattern
  
• comparing numbers
• finding numbers before, between and after
  

Reading

• initial and final sounds
• syllables (how many parts are in a word)
• vowels (a,e,i,o,u)
• rhyming
• sounds s, m, short a, p, t make
• learning to read words

2nd graders
Math

• writing and reading number words
• money- pennies, nickles, dimes, pennies

Reading

• Multisyllabic words- words with more than one syllable
  
• short vowel sounds
• how the long a is made- a, ai, ay and a_e
• ea can make long or short e
• words with sh
• compound words