- Phonemic Awareness: middle sounds in words
- High-Frequency Word: review, review, review
- Use graphic organizers
- Review beginning, middle, and end of stories
- Build -it and -ip words
- Robust Vocabulary: squabble, anxious, uproar, mischief, idle, productive, moans, glum, tend, scrumptious, feast, soggy, huddle
- Poems: read and write them together
- Working on word choice
- Centers on Tuesday and Wednesday
Reading Homework
- Lesson 11 Reading Homework (due back Friday, December 12)
- Lesson 11 Extra Homework (optional)
Guided Readers
- Lesson 12 Red (introduces -ip, -in, and -it words)
- Lesson 12 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on -ip, in, and -it words)
- Lesson 12 Green (includes more complex sentences using -ip, -in, and -it words)
- Unit 3:
- 3.3: Explore Partners Through 6
- Objectives: find partners of numbers 2 through 6; explore reversibility of addends and doubles
- Vocabulary: switch the partners, doubles, 120 poster
- 3.4: Addition and Subtraction Stories: Park Scene
- Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; tell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems; count groups of shapes and write the total
- Vocabulary: plus sign, minus sign, equals sign
- 3.5: More Groups of 10
- Objectives: use pennies and Dime Strips to make teen numbers; draw numbers 6 through 10 as 5-groups; show teen numbers as a group of ten and extra ones
- Vocabulary: 10-group, teen numbers
- 3.6: Explore Partners Through 6 with Pennies
- Objectives: find partners of numbers 2 through 6; write numerals in a repeating pattern; show teen numbers as a group of ten and extra ones
- Vocabulary: pattern, teen number, switch the partners
- Math Homework:
- Monday:
- Tuesday: 3.4
- Wednesday:
- Thursday:
- Friday:
Social Studies:
- Introduction of Maps (continued)
- Finding the United States on a World Map
- Finding Minnesota on a US map
- Introduced to Continents
- Exploring Google Maps
- Learning About the Importance of Farms (continued)
- What are some things Minnesota farms grow?
- Why are farms important?
- Researching different types of farms
Science:
- LEGO Engineering #3 (making seesaws and determining how they work best)
SPECIALS: (December 8-12)
Monday: P.E./Media (Day 4)
Tuesday: Music/Art (Day 1)
Wednesday: Media/P.E. (Day 2)
Thursday: Art/Music (Day 3)
Friday: P.E./Media (Day 4)
MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every other Day 4! Bring back books by Friday (12/12)
COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am