Friday, March 11, 2016

March 14-18

Unit 7: Make Inferences/Make Predictions (Week 1)

  • Letter(s): Ee (short sound)
  • Phonics:
    • Identify the sound /e/
    • Associate the letter Ee with the sound /e/
    • Listen for medial sounds in words
    • Blend CVC words
    • Identify and produce rhyming words
    • Spell CVC words using E and letters previously learned
  • Sight Words: I, you, me
  • Make inferences about a text
  • Make before and during reading predictions
  • Retell story events
  • Reflect on predictions

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 7.2 (coming soon) (Will come home on Friday, March 18 in Friday Folders.
  • PLEASE work on this with your child 3 times a week for 5-10 minutes. This can make a HUGE difference with increasing sight word fluency
  • Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well! (5-10 minutes a day is more than enough)
  • Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers
  • Read books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading!
Writing/Concepts of Print
Book Reviews: Writing a Book Review (Analyze Characters)
  • Use appropriate end punctuation
  • Put spaces between words
  • Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
  • Write some CVC words
  • Write high-frequency words

Writing Prompts:
  • Monday: weekend update (share what you did over the weekend)
  • Tuesday: students work together to discuss and write a book review (analyzing characters)
  • Wednesday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
  • Thursday: write about and draw signs of spring
  • Friday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
Daily 5 Centers:

Read to Self: Students read books from their personalized book bags, students can also choose from our classroom leveled library

Team Center/Read With Others: The focus of this center is working together and making decisions together. Students start by reading two stories together on Raz Kids. They can then play a game, read a physical book together or to each other, or work on a puzzle together

Word Work: students choose from a variety of activities that focus on sight words, letter work, CVC words, and rhyming.

Work on Writing: Students will write about what they could see, smell, hear, and feel on a farm. This is based on our book of the week, Who's In The Shed?

Listen To Reading: Students listen to Who's In The Shed by Brenda Parkes and use show/explain what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Students are invited to make a video of themselves, draw and record on their iPad, or draw on a piece of paper.

Social Studies: Students will complete a graphic organizer showcasing what different types of things reside in a neighborhood

Math: Unit 5 
  • Unit 5: Consolidation of Concepts
      • 5.5: Make Quantities 1-20
        • Objectives: show numbers 1-20 as tens and ones; practice partners for numbers 7-9; find the unknown partner when the total and one partner are known
        • Vocabulary: partner, estimate
      • 5.6: Geometric Patterns and Rotations
        • Objectives: show geometric patterns and rotations
        • Vocabulary: Attribute Card, pattern, teen number
      • 5.7: More Solve and Retell Story Problems
        • Objectives: tell and retell math stories, using appropriate vocabulary; write addition and subtraction equations that correspond to a story problem; practice finding 10-partners, visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
        • Vocabulary: altogether, in all, total, ten teen number, equation
      • 5.8: Patterns in Numbers 1-20
        • 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 5-partners
        • Vocabulary: partner, teen number, pattern

    Social Studies:
    • Neighborhoods: talking about what makes up a neighborhood and what is common in many neighborhoods 

    Science:
    • Signs that spring is on the way
    • Focusing on observations (plants, fish, outside versus inside)
    • human made versus found in nature, living versus nonliving

    SPECIALS
    Monday: media/gym
    Tuesday: art/music
    Wednesday: gym/media
    Thursday: art/music
    Friday: gym/media
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