Schedule for the Week of November 30 - December 4

Language Arts

Unit 3: Determine Text Importance/Identify Sequence of Events

Week 1 Objectives

• Letter(s): Mm and Aa (short Aa sound)
• More focused, detailed instruction begins regarding letters. We will cover 1-2 letters a week. These will show up on home practice sheets as well.
• Phonics:
• Identify the Mm and short Aa sound
• Associate the letter Mm and Aa with the letter sound
• Listen for words that rhyme
• Blend sounds to read the word am; explore -am word family
• Sight Words: all, were, when

• Identify the sequence of events in pictures and text
• Discuss signal words (first, next, then, after)
• Learn strategies for analyzing questions and finding answers, clues, and evidence
• Reflect orally on reading strategies
• Create a sequence of events flow chart (whole group)

Writing/Concepts of Print:

Journals: Develop Concepts of Print

• Put spaces between words
• Write from left to right
• Begin a sentence with an uppercase letter
• Write some high-frequency words
• Use end punctuation correctly
• Share a message orally
• Discuss periods and exclamation points
• Develop genre awareness

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 3.1 (Will come home on Friday, December 4 in Friday Folders. We send home the practice sheets after we have worked on the content in class.)

• PLEASE work on this with your child 2-3 times a week for at least 10 minutes. We need YOU as a partner in helping your child become fluent with letter recognition, sound, and sight words. Thanks!
• Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well!
• Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers

Centers this week include:

Read to Self: students pick out a letter or sight word book to work on reading letter sounds, basic sight words, basic CVC words, and even some basic sentences. Students choose books from their personalized book bags. Students read books based on their specific reading level, although some books are slightly above and some are slightly below.

iPad Read to Self/Read to Others: students use Raz Kids to listen to a story, read a story, and answer comprehensive questions about the story. Students can also read a story with their partner or on their own.

Word Work: students will work on making a word book that includes the word families -am, -at, and -an. When finished, students can choose a sight word activity to work on.

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letters Mm and Aa. They will circle their best work. When finished, students can practice writing and reading sight words.

Listen To Reading: students will listen to (and follow along/track with their fingers) a story and respond by discussing and illustrating what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story

Art: Students will complete a graphic organizer that asks them to draw specific details about themselves.

Math:

• Unit 3: 
• 3.1: Numbers 1-10 and Math Stories: Park Scene
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; find groups of 1 through 10 and identify partners; tell addition and subtraction stories
• Vocabulary: subtract, add
• 3.2: Groups of 10
• Objectives: explore the concept of 10-groups within teen numbers; use pennies and dime strips to make teen numbers; order numbers 1-20.
• Vocabulary: teen; dime strip

• 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

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 3.2 
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday:
• Friday: 3.4

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 3.2 
• Wednesday: 3.3
• Thursday:
• Friday:3.4

Social Studies:

• Introduction of Maps (continued)
• Finding the United States on a World Map
• Finding Minnesota on a US map
• Introduction to Continents
• Exploring Google Maps

SPECIALS: (November 30-December 4)

Monday: Media/P.E. (Day 6)

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 Day 6! 

Schedule for the Week of November 23-27

Language Arts

• Letter(s): brief introduction to Xx, Yy, Zz; review alphabet
• Phonics:
• Produce and identify rhyming words
• Segment the first sound in a word
• Segment compound words by parts
• Identify a letter sound that is repeated

• Sight Words: but, not, what

• Build fluency through choral-reading
• Build academic and sight word vocabulary
• Participate in whole group and partner discussions
• Echo-read to build fluency
• Build vocabulary through shared writing and retelling stories
• Practice reading a rhyme with short pauses
• Use effective pausing to make their reading sound like talking

 

Journals: Develop Concepts of Print

• Put spaces between words
• Write from left to right
• Begin a sentence with an uppercase letter
• Write some high-frequency words
• Use end punctuation correctly
• Share a message orally
• Discuss periods and exclamation points
• Develop genre awareness

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 2.3 (Will come home on Wednesday, November 25 in Friday Folders. We send home the practice sheets after we have worked on the content in class.)

• PLEASE work on this with your child 2-3 times a week for at least 10 minutes. We need YOU as a partner in helping your child become fluent with letter recognition, sound, and sight words. Thanks!

Centers this week include:

iPad Read to Self: students use Raz Kids to listen to a story, read a story, and answer 

comprehensive questions about the story. Students can also read a story with their partner or on their own.

Art Center: Create Three Little Pigs Puppets, then act out the story. 

Writing Center - students will use a graphic organizer and give details about themselves and write a letter to the BIG BAD WOLF

Read to Others: students will use leveled books from their own book box to read to another student.

Listening to Books - students will pick from various stories and listen to them on CD and follow along in the story. 

Word Work Center - students will work on a matching letter game or they can choose to play two different levels of a Roll-A-Word game

Math:

Unit 2: (Unit 2 Test, Wednesday, November 25)

• 2.24: Shapes in a Train Scene
• Objectives: identify and count shapes
• Vocabulary: rectangle, triangle, shape, pattern

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 (we have been finding everyone's houses on Google Maps!)

SPECIALS: (November 23-27)

Monday: Art/Music (Day 3)

Tuesday:  P.E./Media (Day 4)

Wednesday: Music/Art (Day 5) - Return Library Books! 

Thursday:  No School - HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Enjoy quality time with friends and family!

Friday: No School

MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every Day 6! 

Schedule for the Week of November 16-20

Language Arts

• Letter(s): brief introduction to Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww
• Phonics:
• rhyming; discriminate between words that rhyme and words that do not
• words that are the same or different
• identify and remember a sequence of sounds
• Sight Words: one, had, word

• Analyze characters after reading
• Retell story events
• Reread stories to build fluency
• Understand stories have a beginning, middle, and end

Writing/Concepts of Print

Journals: Develop Concepts of Print

• Put spaces between words
• Write from left to right
• Begin a sentence with an uppercase letter
• Write some high-frequency words
• Use end punctuation correctly
• Share a message orally
• Discuss periods and exclamation points
• Develop genre awareness

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 2.2 (Will come home on Friday, November 20th in Friday Folders. We send home the practice sheets after we have worked on the content in class.)

• PLEASE work on this with your child 2-3 times a week for at least 10 minutes. We need YOU as a partner in helping your child become fluent with letter recognition, sound, and sight words. Thanks!
• Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well!
• Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers

Centers this week include:

Read to Self: students pick out a letter or sight word book to work on reading letter sounds, basic sight words, basic CVC words, and even some basic sentences. Students choose books from their personalized book bags. Students read books based on their specific reading level, although some books are slightly above and some are slightly below.

iPad Read to Self/Read to Others: students use Raz Kids to listen to a story, read a story, and answer comprehensive questions about the story. Students can also read a story with their partner or on their own.

Word Work: students choose specific activity to work on that focuses on sight words, rhyming, beginning sounds, reading basic sentences, counting words in a sentence, and uppercase/lowercase letter recognition. A large focus of this center is sight words.

Work on Writing: students will create sentences using a combination of pictures and sight words to help them (I had one _______. That is a _______.)

Listen To Reading: students will listen to (and follow along/track with their fingers) a story and respond by discussing and illustrating how they thought a character felt throughout the story and whether or not their feelings changed throughout the story.

Art: Students will decorate a mini turkey

Math:

Unit 2: (Unit 2 Test Next Wednesday, November 25)

• 2.18: Find and Make New Patterns
• Objectives: make repeating patterns; visualize rectangles as sides of boxes
• Vocabulary: growing pattern
• 2.19: More Numbers 1 Through 10: the +1 Pattern
• Objectives: build concepts of numbers 1-10; explore the +1 relationship between numbers; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: up, down, left, right, out, apart, together, rectangle, circle

• 2.20: Addition and Subtraction Stories: Family Experience
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; write the numeral 10; draw 10 objects
• Vocabulary: ten, ones

• 2.21: Numbers 1 through 10: the -1 pattern
• Objectives: build concepts of 1-10; explore the -1 relationship between numbers
• Vocabulary: subtraction sign
• 2.23: More Numbers 1 through 10: the -1 Pattern
• Objectives: build concepts of numbers 1-10; explore the -1 relationship between numbers
• Vocabulary: subtract, forward, backward

• Math Homework: 
• Monday:
• Tuesday: 2.19
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 2.21
• Friday: 2.23

Social Studies:

• Introduction of Maps
• 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
• What are some things Minnesota farms grow?

Science

• Completing a LEGO Engineering Project and talking about the engineering process

SPECIALS: (November 16-20)

Monday: P.E./Media (Day 4)

Tuesday:  Music/Art (Day 5)

Wednesday: Media/P.E. (Day 6)

Thursday:  Music/Art (Day 1)

Friday: Media/P.E. (Day 2)

MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every Day 6! 

Schedule for the Week of November 9-13

Language Arts:

Unit 2: Visualize/Analyze Character

Week 1 Objectives

• Letter(s): brief introduction to Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr
• Phonics:
• rhyming
• words that are the same or different
• numbers of words in a sentence
• Sight Words: that, his, from

• Analyze characters through their actions, words, thoughts, and feelings
• Visualize to deepen understanding of characters
• Learn strategies for analyzing, questions and finding answers, clues, and evidence
• Identify and analyze character traits
• Answer text-dependent character questions
• Create a character map

Writing/Concepts of Print

• Journals: Develop Concepts of Print
• Put spaces between words
• Write from left to right
• Begin a sentence with an uppercase letter
• Use end punctuation correctly
• Share a message orally
• Write some high frequency words
• Discuss periods and exclamation points

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 2.1 (Will come home on Friday, November 9th in Friday Folders. We send home the practice sheets after we have worked on the content in class.)

• PLEASE work on this with your child 2-3 times a week for at least 10 minutes. We need YOU as a partner in helping your child become fluent with letter recognition, sound, and sight words. Thanks!
• Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well!

Centers this week include:

Read to Self: students pick out a letter or sight word book to work on reading letter sounds, basic sight words, basic CVC words, and even some basic sentences. Students choose books from their personalized book bags. Students read books based on their specific reading level, which we talked about at conferences.

iPad Read to Self/Read to Others: students use Raz Kids to listen to a story, read a story, and answer comprehensive questions about the story. This week, students can also read a story with their partner or on their own.

Word Work: students choose specific activity to work on that focuses on sight words, rhyming, beginning sounds, and uppercase/lowercase letter recognition. A large focus of this center is sight words.

Work on Writing: students will create their own characters and make a story with a problem/solution

Listen To Reading: students will listen to (and follow along/track with their fingers) a story and respond by discussing and illustrating their favorite character.

Art: Students will draw or paint important people in their lives

Math:

Unit 2:

• 2.15: Numbers 1 through 10
• Objectives:  identify and order numbers 1 through 10, count out and make t5 through 10 with 5-groups; identify and order numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; make repeating patterns
• Vocabulary: equal, not equal, more, fewer, rotate, turn
• 2.16: Addition and Subtraction Stories: Garden Scenario
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; write the numeral 9, draw 9 objects
• Vocabulary: in total, left, altogether

• 2.17: Numbers 1 through 10: the +1 pattern
• Objectives: build concepts of numbers 1 through 10; explore the +1 relationship between numbers; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: plus sign (+), equal sign (=)
• 2.18: Find and Make New Patterns
• Objectives: make repeating patterns; visualize rectangles as sides of boxes
• Vocabulary: growing pattern

Math Homework: 

• Monday: No School, Conferences
• Tuesday: 2.15
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 2.17
• Friday: 

Math Challenge Homework: (optional)

• Monday: No School, Conferences
• Tuesday: 2.15 challenge 
• Wednesday:  2.16 challenge (last challenge sheet for this unit)
• Thursday: 
• Friday:

Social Studies:

• Introduction of Maps
• Finding the United States on a World Map
• Finding Minnesota on a US map
• Introduced to Continents
• Exploring Google Maps

SPECIALS: (November 9-13)

Monday: No School

Tuesday:  Media/P.E. (Day 6)

Wednesday: Music/Art (Day 1)

Thursday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Friday: Art/Music (Day 3)

MEDIA (Library): check out/return books every Day 6!