Welcome back from break! I hope everyone found some time to rest, relax, and enjoy the company of others. This week is a big week, as we will start building some serious words by introducing "a" and it's short vowel sound. This is the week where students will really start becoming true readers! How exciting!
Also, lesson 5 homework will not be due until this coming Friday. Thanks!
Reading: Lesson 6
- Phonological Awareness: rhyming words
- Alliteration: recognizing words that start with the same sound
- Reviewing High-Frequency Words: I, a, my, the, go, can, to
- Building -at, -an, and -ap words
- Introducing Aa (short sound)
- Continuing to identify and discuss characters in a story
- Reviewing Robust Vocabulary: gusto, surround, remind, prepare, urgency, lonely
- Continuing to work on recognizing and writing sentences
- Discussing news and writing our own news stories
- Continuing with centers: four centers containing a Halloween puppet project, creating an "a for apple" book, math/number order project and handwriting
- Using iPads to recognize and illustrate the beginning, middle, and end of a story
- Unit 2:
- 2.1: Find Numbers 1-10: Neighborhood Scene
- Objectives: find groups of 1 through 10; identify 5-groups
- Vocabulary: 5-group
- 2.2: Relate Objects and Numbers 6-10
- Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers
- Vocabulary: 5-group, more, fewer
- 2.3: Family Math Stories
- Objectives: Establish links between math and the real world; identify groups of 6 through 10 objects
- Vocabulary: how many, alike, different
- 2.4: Coin Values and Numbers 6-10
- Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make numbers 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers
- Vocabulary: nickel, penny, alike, different, Nickel Strip
Science:
- Continuing to make tree observations; draw in our tree journals; and discuss what happens to trees during the winter months in Minnesota.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
