Reading: Lesson 29
- Phonemic Awareness: review all concepts
- Phonics: Review Short Vowels (a, e, i, o, u)
- High-Frequency Words: review
- Robust Vocabulary: adventure, explore, tame, amazed, completely, jolt
- Comprehension: Continue to distinguish between reality and fantasy, work on generating questions about a story
- Literature: Reading A Mouse Told His Mother by Bethany Roberts and Igor, The Bird Who Couldn't Sing by Satoshi Kitamura
- Writing: Personal Narrative
Reading Homework
Guided Readers
- Lesson 29 Red (focuses on basic sentences that review sight words and common CVC words)
- Lesson 29 Blue (includes sentences that review common CVC words and sight words)
- Lesson 29 Green (includes more complex sentences)
Center "I Can" Statements (What we hope students "can do" during weekly centers. We talk individually and as a group about learning missions of the centers)
- I can choose a book at my level and read by myself and/or to a partner for 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 or observed. (writing/journal center)
- students are observing our class fish and work together to write about their observations.
- students are also using gathered research to help their writing/observations
- I can read, write, and use CVC words and sight words. I can also recognize words I know and words I need more help with. (word work)
- iPad apps called SkyFish and Word Wizard are also used (works on reading/building CVC words)
- sight word games (go fish, memory, etc...)
- introducing first grade sight words to those student who have mastered K ones!
- I can work with a partner or on my own to create a short digital story with a beginning, middle, and end. (creation station)
- I can identify and choose how to illustrate the main idea of a story and talk about my favorite part. (listening center/story response)
- I can use DreamBox (math app) to choose a math adventure that's right for me (math center)
- I pick a recent math topic(s) and choose an activity to help me become better at it (math review)
- includes coin, time, and measuring activities
- I can choose an activity that will help me become a better learner (my choice center)
- various math and reading activities available
Math: Unit 6
- Unit 6: Money, Time, Measurement, and Numbers
- 6.8: Introduction to Measurement
- Objectives: explore measuring tools and how they are used; measure length using Square-Inch Tiles
- Vocabulary: measure, inch, foot, estimate, length
- 6.9: Measurement in Centimeters
- Objectives: measure length using centimeter cubes
- Vocabulary: centimeter, length, measure
- 6.10: Length and Height
- Objectives: compare to identify which object is longer or shorter; compare to identify which object is taller or shorter; identify the shortest, longest, or tallest object in a group
- Vocabulary: longer, shorter, taller, longest, shortest, tallest, centimeter (cm)
- 6.11: Weight and Capacity
- Objectives: explore, order, and compare weights of objects; explore, order, and compare capacities of objects
- Vocabulary: light, lighter, lightest, heavy, heavier, heaviest
- 6.12: Temperature
- Objectives: identify temperatures as hot and cold; compare temperatures
- Vocabulary: hot, cold, warmer, cooler
Science:
- Observing signs of wildlife, discussing habitats
- Learning about Minnesota habitats
- Observing fish, learning how different parts of a fish function (gils, fins), discussing habitats of a fish
Social Studies:
- Skyping with kindergarteners from another Virginia, comparing our schooling experience
- Using maps to compare our locations
- We will Skype with them every Monday
SPECIALS
Monday: art/music
Tuesday: gym/media
Wednesday: music/art
Thursday: media/gym
Friday: art/music
