Friday, March 4, 2016

March 7-11

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

  • Letter(s): Rr
  • Phonics:
    • Identify the sound /r/
    • Associate the letter Rr with the sound /r/
    • Identify initial and final consonant sounds
    • Blend CVC words
    • Identify and produce rhyming words
    • Spell CVC words using R and letters previously learned
  • Sight Words: said, was, be, we
  • Make predictions using clues and evidence in a passage and what they know
  • Make inferences to help make predictions
  • Answer text-dependent making prediction questions
  • Create a make predictions chart and write a sentence based on it (whole group)



Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 7.1 (Will come home on Friday, March 11 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
  • Listen for sounds in words
  • Demonstrate writer's voice
  • Analyze characters

Writing Prompts:
  • Monday: weekend update (share what you did over the weekend)
  • Tuesday: students work together to discuss and write a book review
  • Wednesday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
  • Thursday: writing and drawing about your neighborhood (what do you see & hear?)
  • 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 use a variety of prompts and word cards to either write a mini book review or contribute to a class journal. They can write on their own or collaborate with their partner

Listen To Reading: Listen to Everybody Works by Shelley Rotner and Ken Kreisler and use story clues and pictures to explain why the the jobs in the story are important. To complete this centers, students can draw on paper or within See Saw, write, or record a video of themselves.

Game Center: Students choose from a variety of board games including Connect Four, Guess Who, Trouble, Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Checkers, and more! Woohoo!

Math: Unit 5 
  • Unit 5: Consolidation of Concepts
      • 5.1: Math Stories and Scenes with Teen Numbers
        • Objectives: create addition and subtraction story problems; practice using math language; visualize and represent teen numbers as ten and extra ones
        • Vocabulary: partners, addition, subtraction, teen number
      • 5.2: Partners of 10: Stars in the Night Sky
        • Objectives: show a pattern with drawings, words, movements, and sounds; create and extend repeating patterns
        • Vocabulary: big, small, pattern
      • 5.3: More Partners of 10: Stars in the Night Sky
        • Objectives: write equations to show partners of 10; identify missing partners of 10; show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
        • Vocabulary: partners, decade numbers, teen numbers, ten, one, equation
      • 5.4: Solve and Retell Story Problems
        • Objectives: tell and retell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems with drawings and equations; visualize teen numbers as 10 (two 5-groups) and extra ones
        • Vocabulary: addition, subtraction, story problems, teen numbers, ten, one, equation

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