I hope everyone is staying warm and able to stay indoors for the most part! As I write this, the thermostat reads -22. Wow! By the weekend, it looks like it'll be close to 30 degrees-heat wave! :)
Here's a breakdown of what we'll be covering during the remainder of the week.
Reading: Lesson 12
- Phonemic Awareness: middle sounds in words
- High-Frequency Word: review, review, review
- Use graphic organizers
- Review beginning, middle, and end of stories
- Build -it and -ip words
- Robust Vocabulary: squabble, anxious, uproar, mischief, idle, productive, moans, glum, tend, scrumptious, feast, soggy, huddle
- Poems: read and write them together
- Working on word choice
- Centers on Tuesday and Wednesday
Reading Homework
- Lesson 12 Reading Homework (Will come him this Friday, January 10. Due back Friday, January 17)
Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week)
- Lesson 12 Red (introduces -ip, -in, and -it words)
- Lesson 12 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on -ip, in, and -it words)
- Lesson 12 Green (includes more complex sentences using -ip, -in, and -it words)
- Unit 3:
- 3.10: Explore Attributes: Shape, Size, and Color
- Objectives: sort by shape, size, and color; generate shape patterns; draw numbers 6 through 10 as 5-groups
- Vocabulary: rectangle, circle, triangle, square, pattern
- 3.11: Practice Addition and Subtraction Stories: Park Scene
- Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; tell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems; draw numbers 6 through 10 as 5-groups
- Vocabulary: 5-group
- 3.12: More Attributes: Shape, Size, and Color
- Objectives: sort by shape, size, and color; generate shape patterns; use equal and not equal signs; develop spatial concepts
- Vocabulary: equal sign, is not equal to sign, between, sorting
- 3.13: Build Teen Numbers with Square-Inch Tiles
- Objectives: make teen numbers using 5-groups; graph to compare capacity
- Vocabulary: balance
- Math Challenge (Optional)
