- Phonemic Awareness: review beginning and middle sounds in words
- Letter: Oo
- High-Frequency Words: you, look
- Word building: -on, -og, -ot words
- Review how to draw conclusions when reading
- Robust Vocabulary: creeps, fading, warn, blustery, prefer, delight, nestle, slumbering
- Writing: exclamations
- Reread Winter Lullaby By Barbara Seuling and Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
- Centers on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Reading Homework
- Lesson 14 Homework (due back Friday, January 23)
Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week)
- Lesson 15 Red (focuses on recognizing the letter Oo and the sound it makes)
- Lesson 15 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on our new sight words, you and look. It also focuses on basic CVC words)
- Lesson 15 Green (includes more complex sentences)
Center "I Can" Statements (What we hope students "can do" during weekly centers)
- I can show and discuss my favorite part of a story. (Listening/Story Center)
- I can make more than one rhyming word (Rhyming/Word Work Center)
- I can write uppercase and lowercase Os and create words that have O in the middle (Handwriting Center)
- I can listen to a story, read it, and answer questions about it. (iPad/Raz Kids Center)
- I can write and read question sentences (Writing Center)
- I can name and order numbers 1-30 (Math Center)
- I can write and illustrate teen numbers (Art Center)
- I can add pictures to a story that relate to the words (Author's Area)
- I can choose an activity that I know I need to work on (My Choice Center)
Math: Unit 3
- Unit 3:
- 3.17: Partners Through 6: Practice Games
- Objectives: establish links between math and the real world, tell and solve addition and subtraction stories; show partners for numbers 2 through 6
- Vocabulary: partner, just after
- 3.19: Build Teen Numbers with Classroom Objects
- Objectives: group the ten inside teen numbers; match partners and totals for teen numbers; see and record partners for numbers 2 through 6
- Vocabulary: estimate, benchmark
- 3.20: More Graph Drawings: Match and Compare
- Objectives: describe relative position using ordinal numbers; establish links between math and the real world; tell and solve addition and subtraction stories; use the words more and fewer to compare quantities
- Vocabulary: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, more, fewer
- 3.21: More Teen Numbers with Classroom Objects
- Objectives: group the ten inside teen numbers; match partners and totals for teen numbers; use the words more and fewer to compare quantities
- Vocabulary: more, less, fewer
- Math Homework:
- Monday: NO SCHOOL
- Tuesday:
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: 3.20
- Friday:
- Math Challenge (Optional)
Social Studies:
- Introduction of Maps (continued)
- Finding the United States on a World Map
- Finding Minnesota on a US map
- Introduced to Continents/Oceans
- Exploring Google Maps
Science:
- Exploring Different Types of Weather
- Observing Trees in the Winter
SPECIALS
Monday: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: media/PE
Wednesday: art/music
Thursday: gym/media
Friday: music/art
