Language Arts:
Unit 8: Determine Text Importance/Compare and Contrast (Week 2 of 3)
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Letter(s): Ww
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Phonics:
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Identify the sound /w/
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Associate the letter Ww with the sound /w/
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Identify initial /w/
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Blend CVC words
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Identify and produce rhyming words
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Spell CVC words using Ww and letters previously learned
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Sight Words: go, there, then, out
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Determine text importance
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Compare and contrast information in the text
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Identify and discuss nonfiction text features (table of contents, boldface, glossary, labels)
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Compare and contrast using graphic organizer
Writing/Concepts of Print
Informational Reports: Model Writing an Informational Report
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Use appropriate end punctuation
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Put spaces between words
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Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
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Write some CVC words
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Write high-frequency words
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Demonstrate writer's voice
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Listen for sounds in words
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Reread from the beginning of a sentence
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Write a book review
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Plan and draft an informational report
Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 8.2 (Will come home on Friday, April 15 in Friday Folders.
- Have your child read the books from their book bag throughout the week
- A variety of emerging reader printable books: Leveled Readers
- Dream Box and Raz Kids can both be accessed at home
Writing Prompts:
- Monday: weekend update (share an event from spring break)
- Tuesday: reading a nonfiction story, writing about a new piece of information we learned (informational report)
- Wednesday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
- Thursday: Students will compare and contrast the city and country
- Friday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
Language Arts 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 New choices added every 1-2 weeks
Work on Writing/Science: Students work in their new "fish observation journal" to observe a variety of things regarding our pet fish.
Listen To Reading: Students listen to the storyChildren Past and Present, and then use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast how children lived in the past compared to how they live now.
Game: Students can choose from a variety of board games to play with each other. Battle ship is our newest game!
Language Arts:
Unit 8: Determine Text Importance/Compare and Contrast (Week 2 of 3)
- Letter(s): Ww
- Phonics:
- Identify the sound /w/
- Associate the letter Ww with the sound /w/
- Identify initial /w/
- Blend CVC words
- Identify and produce rhyming words
- Spell CVC words using Ww and letters previously learned
- Sight Words: go, there, then, out
- Determine text importance
- Compare and contrast information in the text
- Identify and discuss nonfiction text features (table of contents, boldface, glossary, labels)
- Compare and contrast using graphic organizer
Writing/Concepts of Print
Informational Reports: Model Writing an Informational Report
- 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
- Reread from the beginning of a sentence
- Write a book review
- Plan and draft an informational report
Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 8.2 (Will come home on Friday, April 15 in Friday Folders.
- Have your child read the books from their book bag throughout the week
- A variety of emerging reader printable books: Leveled Readers
- Dream Box and Raz Kids can both be accessed at home
Writing Prompts:
- Monday: weekend update (share an event from spring break)
- Tuesday: reading a nonfiction story, writing about a new piece of information we learned (informational report)
- Wednesday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
- Thursday: Students will compare and contrast the city and country
- Friday: free write! (students choose what they write about)
Language Arts 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 New choices added every 1-2 weeks
Work on Writing/Science: Students work in their new "fish observation journal" to observe a variety of things regarding our pet fish.
Listen To Reading: Students listen to the storyChildren Past and Present, and then use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast how children lived in the past compared to how they live now.
Game: Students can choose from a variety of board games to play with each other. Battle ship is our newest game!
Math: Unit 5 (Consolidation of Concepts)
- 5.17: Story Problems: Totals Under 10
- Objectives: tell and retell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems with drawings and equations; take away objects to make two groups equal
- Vocabulary: add, subtract, more, fewer, equal
- 5.18: Subtract to Make Equal Groups
- Objectives: add or take away objects to make two groups equal
- Vocabulary: front, forward, back, ahead, left, right, over, add, subtract, equal
- 5.19: More Vertical Graphs and Comparisons
- Objectives: sort and graph objects; read vertical graphs and compare quantities; visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
- Vocabulary: graph, more than, less than, most, least, teen number
- 5.20: Practice: Pattern Block and Attribute Card Activities
- Objectives: generate repeating patterns; show geometric patterns and turns; practice 10-partners and 6-partners
- Vocabulary: pattern, rectangle, circle, triangle, square, partners
Math Practice (Optional Printouts): Challenge sheets are done for Unit 5
Math: Unit 5 (Consolidation of Concepts)
- 5.17: Story Problems: Totals Under 10
- Objectives: tell and retell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems with drawings and equations; take away objects to make two groups equal
- Vocabulary: add, subtract, more, fewer, equal
- 5.18: Subtract to Make Equal Groups
- Objectives: add or take away objects to make two groups equal
- Vocabulary: front, forward, back, ahead, left, right, over, add, subtract, equal
- 5.19: More Vertical Graphs and Comparisons
- Objectives: sort and graph objects; read vertical graphs and compare quantities; visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
- Vocabulary: graph, more than, less than, most, least, teen number
- 5.20: Practice: Pattern Block and Attribute Card Activities
- Objectives: generate repeating patterns; show geometric patterns and turns; practice 10-partners and 6-partners
- Vocabulary: pattern, rectangle, circle, triangle, square, partners
Math Practice (Optional Printouts): Challenge sheets are done for Unit 5
Social Studies:
- Neighborhoods: continue talking about what makes up a neighborhood and what is common in many neighborhoods
- Create a neighborhood art project together (didn't get to this last week)
Social Studies:
- Neighborhoods: continue talking about what makes up a neighborhood and what is common in many neighborhoods
- Create a neighborhood art project together (didn't get to this last week)
Science:
- Signs that spring is on the way-take pictures in our Seesaw e-journal
- Focusing on observations (plants, fish, outside versus inside)
- human made versus found in nature, living versus nonliving
- Identify different parts of a fish
SPECIALS
Monday: gym/media
Tuesday: art/music
Wednesday: gym/media
Thursday: music/art
Friday: media/gym
Field Trip Reminder: Voyageur Environment Center (April 13)
- What: Aquatic insects, Land insects, and a Craft
- When: Wednesday, April 13th (9:00-12:45)
- Where: Voyageur Environmental Center: 7000 County Road 15, Mound, MN 55364
Any parents are welcome to meet us there, but you must make sure you have filled out the proper volunteers forms in the office.
A majority of this field trip will be outside, so please dress your child accordingly.
Science:
- Signs that spring is on the way-take pictures in our Seesaw e-journal
- Focusing on observations (plants, fish, outside versus inside)
- human made versus found in nature, living versus nonliving
- Identify different parts of a fish
SPECIALS
Monday: gym/media
Tuesday: art/music
Wednesday: gym/media
Thursday: music/art
Friday: media/gym
Field Trip Reminder: Voyageur Environment Center (April 13)
- What: Aquatic insects, Land insects, and a Craft
- When: Wednesday, April 13th (9:00-12:45)
- Where: Voyageur Environmental Center: 7000 County Road 15, Mound, MN 55364
Any parents are welcome to meet us there, but you must make sure you have filled out the proper volunteers forms in the office.
A majority of this field trip will be outside, so please dress your child accordingly.
