March 21-24

Unit 7: Make Inferences/Make Predictions (Week 3)

• Letter(s): Gg
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /g/
• Associate the letter Gg with the sound /g/
• Identify initial and final sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyming words
• Spell CVC words using G and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: come, here, to

• Make inferences before reading
• Build fluency through choral-reading
• Build comprehension through retelling
• Build oral language and vocabulary through whole-group and partner discussion
• Use effective phrasing to make reading sound like talking
• Reflect on and assess fluency development

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 7.3 (Will come home on Thursday, March 24 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

Informational Reports: Introduce Informational Reports

• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Put spaces between words
• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Write some CVC words
• Write high-frequency words
• Demonstrate writer's voice
• Listen for sounds in words
• Write a book review

Writing Prompts:

• Monday: weekend update (share what you did over the weekend)
• Tuesday: reading a nonfiction story, writing about a new piece of information we learned
• Wednesday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
• Thursday: after reading a nonfiction story about a farm, write/draw about something interesting we learned
• Friday: NO SCHOOL, TEACHER WORKSHOP

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 use various sentence starters (or write one on their own) to complete a class book about what we know and have learned about farms

Listen To Reading: Students listen the reader's theater Farm Animals by Francisco Blane and will then take turns reading the various parts. Once everyone has had the chance to read all the parts, students are invited to record themselves reading it independently within their Seesaw portfolio.

Science/Art: Students will look through magazines to make a collage of anything that is a sign of spring

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

• Math Practice (Optional Printouts): Challenge sheets are done for Unit 5
• Monday: 5.10
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 5.12
• Thursday: 
• Friday: NO SCHOOL

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: music/art

Tuesday: media/gym

Wednesday: art/music

Thursday: gym/media

Friday: NO SCHOOL

Other: Field Trip to Lowry Nature Center on Wednesday, March 23 (9AM-12PM).

• Parents are welcome to meet us there, but must fill out the proper volunteer forms in the office. 
• We will be back in time to eat school lunch
• Please dress your child appropriately....who knows what the weather will be like. We will be outside for most of the field trip