- Phonemic Awareness: phoneme segmentation continued
- Letters: Yy and Zz
- High-Frequency Words: Review
- Robust Vocabulary: protecting, volunteer, responsible, adore, melancholy, exquisite, appreciate, grace, host, lush, marvelous, constantly
- Comprehension: Discussing characters and working on making inferences
- Literature: Rereading My Teacher Can Teach...Anyone! by W. Nikola-Lisa and Pig Pig Gets a Job by David McPhail
- Writing: Stories; working on sentence fluency
Reading Homework
- Lesson 23 Homework (Due Friday, April 10)
Guided Readers
- Lesson 24 Red (focuses on recognizing words that start with Y and Z)
- Lesson 24 Blue(includes short sentences that focus on our most recent sight words. It also focuses on basic CVC words)
- Lesson 24 Green (includes more complex sentences)
Center "I Can" Statements (What we hope students "can do" during weekly centers)
- I can choose a book at my level and read by myself and/or to a partner for 10-15 minutes. We use Raz Kids and guided readers (Free Read Center, iPad Center)
- I can write 1 or more sentences about something I care about. (writing/journal center)
- students choose from a journal of their choice (vacation, family, friends, animals, sports/activities, fiction stories)
- students can also choose to work on writing sight words/CVC words they know and don't know to help identify what they still need to work on
- I can choose a game/writing activity to review reading, writing, and using sight words. (word work)
- I can create a spring flower using cutout letter Ys and Zs (art center)
- I can identify characters in a story and discuss my favorite ones. (listening center/story response)
- I can use DreamBox (math app) to choose a math adventure that's right for me (math center)
- I can identify and write the letter Z and Y, showcasing my very best work (handwriting center)
- I can choose an activity that will help me become a better learner (my choice center)
Math: Unit 5
- Unit 5: Consolidation of Concepts
- 5.10: Partners of 6,7,8, and 9
- Objectives: visualize teen numbers in sequence as a ten and extra ones; find the unknown partner when the total and one partner are known; identify partners for the number 6
- Vocabulary: partner, pattern
- 5.11: Tens in Teen Numbers: A Game
- Objectives: solve addition and subtraction story problems; visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; use the equal and not equal signs in comparing
- Vocabulary: equal sign, not equal sign, equal, unequal
- 5.12: Tens in Teen Numbers Book
- Objectives: visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; find 10-partners
- Vocabulary: teen numbers, extra ones
- 5.13: Partners of 10: Class Project
- Objectives: relate 10-partner drawings to addition equations; find patterns in the partners of 10
- Vocabulary: rectangle, pattern
- Math Challenge (Optional)
- no more math challenge sheets for Unit 5.
SPECIALS
Monday: art/music
Tuesday: media/gym
Wednesday: music/art
Thursday: gym/media
Friday: art/music
