Friday, March 7, 2014

March 10-14

As we continue adding more and more sight words to our list, please take some extra time to work on these with your child. The more fluent we are with them, the more confident readers we will become! Thanks!!

Reading: Lesson 21
  • Phonemic Awareness: Review phoneme blending
  • Word Building: -ed and -en words
  • High-Frequency Words: out, who
  • Robust Vocabulary: contrast, meander, tidy, famished, modify, unfortunate, treasure, sturdy, worth, compliment, confer, mingle
  • Comprehension: Rereading stories to monitor comprehension, identifying the setting
  • Literature: Rereading What a Treasure! by Jane Hillenbrand, Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats, The Most Perfect Spot by Diane Good, and The Snug Little House by Elis Moorhouse Lewis
  • Writing: Description of a Place and continuing to work on word choice
Reading Homework
Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 3-5 throughout the week) 
  • Lesson 21 Red (focuses on reading basic CVC words in the -ed, -et, and -en family )
  • Lesson 21 Blue(includes short sentences that focus on new sight word, out and who. It also focuses on basic CVC words)
  • Lesson 21 Green(includes more complex sentences)
Math: Unit 4 
  • Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
      • 4.22: Horizontal Graphs and Comparisons
        • Objectives: use horizontal graphs to compare quantities; find and write equations for partners of 3,4,5, 6, and 10
        • Vocabulary: graph, partners
      • 4.23: Teen Number Book
        • Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones, match pictures to numbers, compare groups to determine which has fewer objects
        • Vocabulary: teen number
      • 4.24: Shapes in a Butterfly Scene
        • Objectives: identify and count shapes
        • Vocabulary: shape, rectangle, circle, triangle, oval, trapezoid, diamond
            • Math Homework: 
              • Monday: 4.22
              • Tuesday: 
              • Wednesday: 4.24
              • Thursday: Unit 4 Test
              • Friday: 
            SPECIALS
            Monday: Music/Gym
            Tuesday: Art
            Wednesday: Gym/Music
            Thursday: Gym/Music
            Friday: Art