Schedule for the Week of February 24-28

Hello! I am really looking forward to meeting with all of you to talk about your child's great accomplishments in Kindergarten!  Feel free to bring your child to the conference too!

We also have a dental presentation (thanks to West Lake Dentistry) this Thursday at 9:30AM.

Please remember that this Friday, February 28th is a normal school day and we will be having our READ-A-THON that day too!

Reading: Lesson 19

• Phonemic Awareness: Identify middle sound in words
• Word Building: -ox, -ix
• High-Frequency Words: up, down
• Robust Vocabulary: contrast, meander, tidy, famished, modify, unfortunate
• Comprehension: Discussing reality/fantasy stories and working on summarizing stories
• Literature: Reading Swing High, Swing Low by Fiona Coward and The Most Perfect Spot by Diane Good
• Writing: Description of a Person and working on word choice in writing

Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week) 

•  Lesson 19 Red (focuses on recognizing  and reading -ix, -ox, and -ax words)
• Lesson 19 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on our most recent sight words. It also focuses on basic CVC -ix and -ox words)
• Lesson 19 Green (includes more complex sentences)

Reading Homework

• Lesson 18 Homework (Due back February 28)

Math: Unit 4 

• Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
• 4.13: More Patterns with Shapes and Repeating Patterns
• Objectives: explore shapes and combine them to make new shapes; make repeating patterns with shapes, sounds, and actions; draw matching lines to see more and fewer
• Vocabulary: hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, triangle, more, fewer, extra
• 4.14: Partners of 10 with 5-Groups
• Objectives: find partners of 10 in 5-groups; record sets or partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: 5-frame, partner, Tiny Tumbler, Math Mountain , lef, right, forward, ahead, back, apart, toward
• 4.15: Addition Equations
• Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; show teen numbers as 10 + 1-digit number, solve addition equations and explore addition strategies; order numbers 1 through 18
• Vocabulary: partner, equation, addition, add, equal, equals sign, addition sign
• 4.16: More Partners of 10 with 5-Groups
• Objectives: find partners of 10 in 5-groups; record sets or partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary:5-frame; Tiny Tumbler; Math Mountain; left, right, forward, ahead, back, apart, toward

• Math Homework: 
• Monday:
• Tuesday: 4.14
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 4.16
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• 4.13 challenge
• 4.14 challenge
• 4.15 challenge
• 4.16 challenge