Friday, February 13, 2015

February 18-20

Reading:  Lesson 18 (continuing from last week)
  • Phonemic Awareness: Identify middle sound in words
  • Letters: Ww, Xx
  • High-Frequency Words: Review 
  • Robust Vocabulary: load, bound, steep, drooped, joyous, thrill, fantasy, jolly, versatile, agreed, contribute, spontaneously
  • Identifying beginning, middle, and end of a story
  • Using graphic organizers to help with story comprehension
  • Writing: story response, working on adding "voice" to our writing
Reading Homework
Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week) 
  • Lesson 18 Red (focuses on recognizing the letter W and X)
  • Lesson 18 Blue(includes short sentences that focus on our most recent sight words. It also focuses on basic CVC -ix and -ox words)
  • Lesson 18 Green(includes more complex sentences)
Math: Unit 4 
  • Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
    • 4.8: More Teen Numbers and Equations
      • Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; show teen numbers as 10 + a 1-digit number; identify sets of partners for numbers 2 through 6
      • Vocabulary: teen equation, partner
    • 4.9: More Patterns with Shapes
      • Objectives: explore shapes and combine them to make new shapes; compare groups to determine which has fewer objects
      • Vocabulary: triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, less, more, diamond, fewer
      • Math Homework: 
        • Monday: NO SCHOOL
        • Tuesday: NO SCHOOL
        • Wednesday: 100th Day!!!
        • Thursday: 
        • Friday: 
      • Math Challenge (Optional)
        • Monday: NO SCHOOL
        • Tuesday: NO SCHOOL
        • Wednesday: 
        • Thursday: 4.9 challenge
        • Friday: 
      Social Studies:
      • Digital Citizenship, posting safe content on the internet (we are using our class Twitter account for this) and some websites such as netsmarts.
      Science:
      • Exploring Mars on Google Earth, Researching Planets
      • Exploring MN lakes during the winter
      SPECIALS
      Monday: NO SCHOOL
      Tuesday: NO SCHOOL
      Wednesday: gym/media
      Thursday: music/art
      Friday: media/gym