Tuesday, May 26, 2015

May 26-29

Reading: Lesson 30 (Review from last week)
  • 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)
  1. 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)
  2. 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
  3. 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!
  4.  I can create something meaningful and interesting (creation/art station)
  5. I can interview and record my partner about what they liked about kindergarten and what they will miss about kindergarten (listening center)
  6. I can use DreamBox (math app) to choose a math adventure that's right for me (math center)
  7. 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
  8. I can choose an activity that will help me become a better learner (my choice center)
    • various math and reading activities available
    • students are also encouraged to practice for their kindergarten graduation celebration
Math: 
  • Reviewing counting coins, telling time, measuring, adding, subtracting, counting, and writing numbers. Woohoo!
    • We have completed the kindergarten curriculum! Congrats K-1!
    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

    SPECIALS
    Monday: NO SCHOOL
    Tuesday: music/art
    Wednesday: media/gym
    Thursday: art/music
    Friday: gym/media