Schedule for the Week of January 25-29

Language Arts

Unit 5: Make Connections/Make Inferences

• Letter(s): Pp
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /p/
• Associate the letter Pp with the sound /p/
• Blend CVC words
• Listen for words that rhyme and suggest pairs of words that rhyme
• Spell CVC words using p and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: the, many, them

• Make inferences using what they see in pictures and read in text
• Make connections with pictures and text
• Use clues/evidence in text to make inferences
• Practice strategies for analyzing questions and finding answers and
• clues and evidence in text
• Answer text-dependent inference questions
• Create an inference graphic organizer (whole group and in centers)

Writing/Concepts of Print (week 13)

Journals: Capitalize I

• Understand that the pronoun I is always an uppercase letter
• Use end punctuation
• Write CVC and high-frequency words
• Understand that a sentence begins with an uppercase letter, has spaces between words, and can end with a period or exclamation point

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 5.1 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Friday, January 29 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 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. These books are updated every 1-2 weeks. Students also work in guided reading groups with Mrs. Koepp.

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. After students read 1-2 stories, they will also have the option to work in Dream Box or Scratch Jr.

Word Work: students can choose to play roll a word, CVC word memory, CVC word puzzle, rhyme time, or a variety of other CVC/sight word based games. This week we will also introduce some fun word blocks that can be used to create sentences, along with CVC word cubes that allow students to create a variety of words ending in -am, -an, -at, -in, -it, etc...

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letter Pp. They will circle their best work and be encouraged to discuss their work on Seesaw. We will also be introducing class journals in which students can choose a class journal to work in after they finish handwriting...some options include a sports journal, food journal, friends journal, vacation journal, toy journal

Listen To Reading: coming soon!

Math Journal Center: Students can choose any page in their Unit 1-3 math journal to work on. Their goal is to finish 3 pages. They will be encouraged to take pictures and explain their work on Seesaw.

Math: Unit 3 and 4 (Take Unit 3 Test on Monday, Start Unit 4)

• 4.1: Numbers 1-10 and Math Stories: Grocery Store Scene
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world
• Vocabulary: story problem
• 4.2: Find Partners of 10
• Objectives: identify sets of partners for numbers 2 through 6
• Vocabulary: partner
• 4.3: Teen Numbers and Equations
• Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; show teen numbers as 10 + a 1-digit number
• Vocabulary: equal sign, plus sign, equation
• 4.4: Addition and Subtraction Stories: Grocery Store Scenario 
• Objectives: explore addition and subtraction in buying and selling experiences; express addition and subtraction story problems in drawings and expressions; practice repeating patterns
• Vocabulary: addition, total, subtraction, plus sign, minus sign

• Math Homework: 
• Monday:
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 4.3
• Friday:  4.4

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 4.1 challenge
• Wednesday: 4.2 challenge
• Thursday: 4.3 challenge
• Friday: 4.4 challenge

SPECIALS: (January 25-29)

Monday: Music/Art (Day 1)

Tuesday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Wednesday:  Art/Music (Day 3)

Thursday:  P.E./Media (Day 4)

Friday: Music/Art (Day 5)

MEDIA (Library): check out every Day 6/PLEASE return books every Day 5!

Schedule for the Week of January 18-22

Language Arts: Unit 4: 

Summarize and Synthesize/Analyze Story Elements

• Letter(s): Ff
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /f/
• Associate the letter Ff with the sound /f/
• Blend CVC words
• Listen for rhyming words
• Blend sounds to read and write the words in the -am, -an, and -at family
• Sight Words: a, has, about

• Review concepts of print
• Build academic and sight word vocabulary
• Build fluency through choral-reading
• Echo-read to build fluency
• Build comprehension through retelling
• Make voices rise at a question mark and fall at a period
• Use effective inflection and intonation to make their reading sound like talking
• Demonstrate active listening skills

Writing/Concepts of Print

Journals: Use Compound Subjects

• 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
• Write some CVC words
• Use descriptive words in discussion and writing

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 4.3 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Thursday, January 21 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 choose books from their personalized book boxes. Students read books based on their specific reading level, although some books are slightly above and some are slightly below. These books are updated every 1-2 weeks. Students also work in guided reading groups with Mrs. Koepp

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. After students read 1-2 stories, they will also have the option to work in Dream Box or Scratch Jr.

Word Work: students can choose to play roll a word, CVC word memory, CVC word puzzle, rhyme time, or a variety of other CVC/sight word based games.

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letter Ff and will circle their best work . When finished, students can work on creating pictures or taking pictures of things that start with Ff.

Listen To Reading: students will listen to (and follow along/track with their fingers) a reader's theater, which is like a small play. They will then take turns reading the various parts and work on reading like we talk.

Play-Doh Center: Students will create a character using play-doh.

Math: Unit 3 (Unit 3 Test on Thursday, January 21)

• 3.22: More Attribute Card Activities
• Objectives: sort by shape, size, and color; generate shape patterns; use equal and not equal to signs
• Vocabulary: sort, equal to sign, is not equal to sign

• 3.24: Shapes in a Garden Scene
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; tell and solve addition and subtraction stories; identify and count shapes
• Vocabulary: oval, trapezoid, rectangle, hexagon, circle, square, diamond, triangle
• 3.25: Use Mathematical Processes
• Objectives: apply mathematical concepts and skills in meaningful concepts
• Vocabulary: 

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: 3.22
• Tuesday: 3.24
• Wednesday: 3.25
• Thursday: 
• Friday: NO SCHOOL

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• Monday: 3.22 challenge
• Tuesday: 3.24 challenge
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 
• Friday: NO SCHOOL

Social Studies:

• Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. 
• Exploring his life, discussing what he did for this country and why he is important 
• Exploring how MLK and others brought about change
• Exploring fair/unfair and discrimination
• Having Conversations in small groups and large groups

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

Science

• Working on our 4th LEGO engineering project

SPECIALS: (January 18-22)

Monday: Art/Music (Day 3)

Tuesday:  P.E./Media (Day 4)

Wednesday:  Music/Art (Day 5)

Thursday:  Media/P.E. (Day 6)

Friday: No School!!

MEDIA (Library): check out every Day 6/PLEASE return books every Day 5!

Schedule for the Week of January 11-15

Language Arts: Unit 4: Summarize and Synthesize/Analyze Story Elements

• Letter(s): Ii (short Ii sound)
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /i/
• Associate the letter Ii with the sound /i/
• Listen for medial sounds
• Listen for rhyming words
• Blend sounds to read and write the words in the -am, -an, and -at family

• Sight Words: is, up, other

• Review concepts of print
• summarize and synthesize a story
• Analyze story elements: characters, setting, problem, solution
• Retell story events
• Ask character questions
• Reread stories to build fluency

Writing/Concepts of Print

Journals: Revise for Word Choice: Descriptive Words

• 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
• Write some CVC words
• Use descriptive words in discussion and writing

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 4.2 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Friday, January 15 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 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. These books are updated every 1-2 weeks. Students also work in guided reading groups with Mrs. Koepp

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 can choose to play roll a word, CVC word memory, CVC word puzzle, rhyme time, or a variety of other CVC/sight word based games.

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letter Ii. They will circle their best work and be encouraged to discuss their work. When finished, students will practice writing words that start with Mm, Ss, Tt, Aa, and Nn

Listen To Reading: students will listen to (and follow along/track with their fingers) a story. They will then retell the story through drawing on paper.

Dream Box/Scratch Jr.: Students will work on their favorite math app, Dream Box or work on the basic coding app, Scratch Jr.

Math:

• Unit 3: 
• 3.16: Graph Drawings: Match and Compare
• Objectives: use more and fewer to compare quantities; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: more, less, fewer

• 3.17: Partners Through 6: Practice Games
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world, tell and solve addition and subtraction stories; show partners for numbers 2 through 6
• Vocabulary: partner, just after
• 3.19: Build Teen Numbers with Classroom Objects
• Objectives: group the ten inside teen numbers; match partners and totals for teen numbers; see and record partners for numbers 2 through 6
• Vocabulary: estimate, benchmark

• 3.20: More Graph Drawings: Match and Compare
• Objectives: describe relative position using ordinal numbers; establish links between math and the real world; tell and solve addition and subtraction stories; use the words more and fewer to compare quantities
• Vocabulary: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, more, fewer
• 3.21: More Teen Numbers with Classroom Objects
• Objectives: group the ten inside teen numbers; match partners and totals for teen numbers; use the words more and fewer to compare quantities
• Vocabulary: more, less, fewer
• Students will also start working on a graphing project in which they will collect data through surveying their classmates (favorite vegetable, fruit, color, etc..) and graphing out the results. Fun!

• Math Homework: 
• Monday:  3.16
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 3.20
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• 3.16 challenge
• 3.17 challenge
• 3.19 challenge
• 3.20 challenge
• 3.21 challenge

Social Studies:

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

SPECIALS: (January 11-15)

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 every Day 6/PLEASE return books every Day 5!

Schedule for the Week of January 4-8

Hello and Welcome Back! I hope you all had a delightful, safe and restful break! 

Language Arts: Unit 4: Summarize and Synthesize/Analyze Story Elements

• Letter(s): Nn
• Phonics:
• Review previously taught sounds
• Identify the sound /n/
• Associate the letter Nn with the sound /n/
• Listen for initial sound /n/
• Listen for rhyme
• Sight Words: their, will

• Analyze story elements: character(s), setting, problem, solution
• Summarize and synthesize to enhance understanding of story
• Learn and practice strategies for analyzing questions and finding answers, clues, and evidence in a text
• Create a story map (whole group and in centers)

Writing/Concepts of Print

Journals: Revise for Word Choice: Descriptive Words

• 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
• Write some CVC words
• Use descriptive words in discussion and writing

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 4.1 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Friday, January 8 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 can choose to play a variety of sight word games, work on creating CVC words, letter recognition, rhyming, play CVC word memory, or play the very popular iPad app, Sky Fish (it's free and good!)

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letter Tt. They will circle their best work. When finished, students will practice writing words that start with Mm, Ss, and Tt

Listen To Reading: students will listen to (and follow along/track with their fingers) the story The Little School Bus. Then they will put the story into sequence order.

Game Station: Students can choose from a variety of games to play including Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Checkers, Uno, Kid Boggle, and memory

Math:

• Unit 3: 
• 3.12: More Attributes: Shape, Size, and Color
• Objectives: sort by shape, size, and color; generate shape patterns; use equal and not equal signs; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: equal sign, is not equal to sign, between, sorting
• 3.13: Build Teen Numbers with Square-Inch Tiles
• Objectives: make teen numbers using 5-groups; graph to compare capacity
• Vocabulary: balance

• 3.14: Attribute Card Activities
• Objectives: sort by shape, size, and color; generate shape patterns; use equal and not equal to signs
• Vocabulary: sort, equal sign, is not equal to sign
• 3.15: Tens in Teens
• Objectives: make teen numbers using centimeter cubes; show teen numbers as a group of ten and extra ones; match partners and totals for teen numbers
• Vocabulary: partners, total

• Math Homework: 
• Monday:  3.12
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 3.14
• Thursday: 
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• Monday: 3.12 challenge
• Tuesday: 3.13 challenge
• Wednesday: 3.14 challenge
• Thursday: 3.15 challenge
• Friday:

Social Studies:

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

Science:

• Exploring Different Types of Weather
• Observing Trees in the Winter 
• Discussing and exploring "nocturnal"
• We will make an art project based on what we learn

SPECIALS: (January 4-8)

Monday: Music/Art (Day 5)

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 every Day 6/PLEASE return books every Day 5!