- Phonemic Awareness: review all concepts
- Phonics: Review Short Vowels (a, e, i, o, u)
- High-Frequency Words: review
- Robust Vocabulary: dare, gleaming, splendid, cautiously, festival, disaster, adventure, explore, tame, amazed, completely, jolt
- Comprehension: Drawing conclusions and making inferences
- Literature: Reading The Three Little Pigs
- Writing: Personal Narrative
Reading Homework
Guided Readers: last ones for the year!
- Lesson 30 Red(focuses on basic sentences that review sight words and common CVC words)
- Lesson 30 Blue(includes sentences that review common CVC words and sight words)
- Lesson 30 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, sight word zap, etc...)
- introducing first grade sight words to those student who have mastered K ones!
- I can reflect on my year and illustrate/discuss something I am very proud of (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
- writing number words
- skip counting by 2s
- 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 Test on Thursday
- Unit 6: Money, Time, Measurement, and Numbers
- 6.13: Numbers Through 120
- Objectives: explore place value in numbers through 120; write numbers through 120
- Vocabulary: tens, ones, more, fewer, less, vertical, horizontal
- 6.14: Write Number Words
- Objectives: read and write number words
- Vocabulary:one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
- 6.15: Counting Different Ways
- Objectives: count forward and backward on a number line; Skip count forward and backward
- Vocabulary: number line, skip count
- We will also be reviewing many concepts including counting coins, telling time to the hour and half hour, measuring in inches and centimeters, adding and subtracting, and writing numbers.
- Math Homework:
- Monday:
- Tuesday: 6.14
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: Unit 6 Test
- Friday:
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: gym/media
Tuesday: music/art
Wednesday: media/gym
Thursday: art/music
Friday: no specials due to Super Team Day
