WELCOME TO THE 2026-2027 SCHOOL YEAR
MY NAME IS MR. JOE OLESKY
Students in Reading and Math this year will be working diligently on a variety of topics.
Reading-
- Upper and lowercase letters and letter sound recognition
- Long and Short Vowel Sounds and Consonant Blends
- Making Predictions Identifying Main Idea Theme and Guided Reading
- Months, Seasons, Calendar
- Base Words Contractions and Simple and Compound Sentences
- Contractions and Vowel Digraphs
-Sentence structure, Compound and Complex Sentences, Kinds of Sentences Verb Tenses
- Cause and Effect Fiction and Nonfiction
- Long and Short Vowel Sounds Consonant Blends and Consonant Digraphs
- Independent Reading and Writing, Parts of Speech
- Common Misspelled Words, Frequently Misspelled or Confused Words
- Letter recognition skills, Phonics skills Sounds Sight Words Vowel Digraphs
-Readers' Purpose
-Discussion of Author, Illustrator, Reading with Fluency
-Making Story Predictions and Recalling Story Events
-Journal Writing and Guided Reading Groups
- Fiction/ Nonfiction/ Drama
- Comparative Endings
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Simple and Compound Sentences
- Poetry
- Syllable Patterns
- Informational Text
- Characters, Setting, Problem and Solution
- High Frequency Words
- Drama
- Prefixes and Suffixes
- Subject and Predicate
Math-
- Calendar, Time and Money
- Place Value
- Addition and Subtraction with and without Regrouping
- Different Ways of Writing Numbers Correctly
- Solving One and Two Step Word Problems
- Basic Facts and Fact Families
- Comparing and Ordering Numbers
- Standard Form Word Form Expanded Form
- Comparing Numbers to 100
- Addition and Subtraction One and Two digit Numbers with and without Regrouping
- Greater Than Less Than Equal To
- Multiplication and Division
- Fractions
- Measurement