Schedule for the Week of February 29 - March 4

Language Arts- Unit 6: Fix-Up Monitoring/Summarize Information (Week 3)

• Letter(s): Uu (short sound)
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /u/
• Associate the letter Uu with the sound /u/
• Listen for medial sounds in words
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyming words
• Spell CVC words using U and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: have, are, make

• Build fluency through choral-reading
• Build academic and sight word vocabulary
• Build oral language and vocabulary through whole-group and partner discussion
• Echo-read to build fluency
• Build comprehension through retelling
• Build vocabulary through shared writing
• Practice stressing some words when reading a rhyme
• Use effective inflection and intonation to make reading sound like talking

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 6.3 (COMING SOON) (Will come home on Friday, March 4 in Friday Folders.

• PLEASE work on this with your child 3 times a week for 5-10 minutes. This can make a HUGE difference with increasing sight word fluency
• Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well! (5-10 minutes a day is more than enough)
• Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers
• Read any books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading!

Writing/Concepts of Print

Book Reviews: Writing a Book Review (Characters)

• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Put spaces between words
• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Write some CVC words
• Write high-frequency words
• Listen for sounds in words
• Demonstrate writer's voice
• Analyze story elements

Daily 5 Centers:

Read to Self: Students read books from their personalized book boxes, 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.

Work on Writing: Students will use a variety of prompts and word cards to write a short story on their own or collaborate with their partner

Listen To Reading: Students listen to the Reader's Theater, In The Sea and then take turns reading the various parts. They will then have the opportunity to record themselves reading it within their Seesaw journal

Creation Center: Students are given a variety of materials and are asked to simply create. They can build, do an art project, create an umbrella etc.

Math: Unit 4 

• Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
• 4.21: Triangles and Addition and Subtraction Stories
• Objectives: express addition and subtraction story problems in drawings and expressions; find and explore triangles in three-dimensional shapes and through creative movement
• Vocabulary: triangle, prism, pyramid
• 4.22: Horizontal Graphs and Comparisons
• Objectives: use horizontal graphs to compare quantities; find and write equations for partners of 3,4,5, 6, and 10
• Vocabulary: graph, partners
• 4.23: Teen Number Book
• Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones, match pictures to numbers, compare groups to determine which has fewer objects
• Vocabulary: teen number
• 4.24: Shapes in a Butterfly Scene
• Objectives: identify and count shapes
• Vocabulary: shape, rectangle, circle, triangle, oval, trapezoid, diamond
• Math Practice (optional printouts)
• Monday: 4.21 challenge
• Tuesday: 4.22, 4.22 challenge
• Wednesday: 4.23 challenge
• Thursday: 4.24, 4.24 challenge
• Friday: Unit 4 Test
• Look for ways to incorporate addition, subtraction, comparing groups of numbers, and patterns within your daily routines....at the dinner table, in stories, out running errands, etc... (Compare amounts of things on your plate, do story problems with your food or toys, count how many of a certain object is on a page in a book, count objects and create addition/subtraction problems out in nature)
Science:
• Discussing MN lakes during winter

Other News:

• Thursday, March 3rd is our Read-A-Thon day!!! Please remember to return your pledge packets on that day! We will READ, READ, READ!!!! :-)

Schedule for the Week of February 22-26

Language Arts- Unit 6: Fix-Up Monitoring/Summarize Information (Week 2)

• Letter(s): Bb
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /b/
• Associate the letter Bb with the sound /b/
• Identify beginning and ending consonant sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyme
• Spell CVC words using B and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: cannot, her, would

• Summarize information from the text
• Identify and discuss nonfiction text features (table of contents, index)
• Summarize important ideas using a graphic organizer
• Learn about nonfiction text structure (description)
• Use important events from the text to write about animals in their habitats

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 6.2 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Friday, February 26th in Friday Folders.

• PLEASE work on this with your child 3 times a week for 5-10 minutes. This can make a HUGE difference with increasing sight word fluency
• Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well! (5-10 minutes a day is good)
• Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers
• Read any books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading

Writing/Concepts of Print

Book Reviews: Writing a Book Review (Characters)

• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Put spaces between words
• Write some CVC words
• Write high-frequency words
• Listen for sounds in words
• Demonstrate writer's voice
• Analyze story elements

 

Daily 5 Centers:

Read to Self: Students read books from their personalized book boxes, students can also choose from our classroom leveled library

iPad: Students use the Raz Kids app to enjoy 1-2 stories. Afterwards, they can look at physical books, or work on Scratch Jr (coding app).

Word Work: students choose from a variety of activities that focus on sight words, letter work, CVC words, and rhyming.

Work on Writing: Students will write their own mini book. They can write on their own or collaborate with their partner

Listen To Reading: Students listen to the story, Animals in their Habitats and then record a video book review. They will state whether they liked the story or not, give a reason why, and then decide if they would recommend the story.

Creation Center: Students are given a variety of materials and are asked to simply create. They can build, do an art project, etc..

Math: Unit 4 (Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens)

• 4.17: Introduction to the -1 Routine
• Objectives: create story problems (addition and subtraction), solve addition equations; order numbers 1 through 20
• Vocabulary: addition sign, subtraction sign, add

• 4.18: 2- and 3-Dimensional Shapes: Triangles
• Objectives: find and explore triangles in three-dimensional shapes and through creative movement; show teen numbers as ten and extra ones; order numbers 1 through 25
• Vocabulary: triangle, prism, pyramid
• 4.19: Vertical Graphs and Comparisons
• Objectives: use vertical graphs to compare quantities; solve addition equations and explore addition strategies
• Vocabulary: compare, more, fewer, graph, equation, add
• 4.20: Equations: Partners of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10
• Objectives: find and write equations for partners of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10; show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
• Vocabulary: partner equation

• Math Homework (Optional Printouts)
• Monday: 4.17 challenge
• Tuesday: 4.18,  4.18 challenge
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 4.20, 4.20 challenge
• Friday: NO SCHOOL

**Physical copies of math homework will no longer come home. Math worksheets will be on this blog for those who wish to use them. This will save lots of paper, and hopefully alleviate any stress regarding homework responsibilities at such a young age. Looking at the math homework is still a great opportunity for parents to see what students are working on in class.

Science:

• Discussing MN lakes during winter
• Focusing on observations (plants and fish)

SPECIALS: (February 22-26)

Monday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Tuesday:   Art/Music (Day 3)

Wednesday:  P.E./Media (Day 4)

Thursday: Music/Art (Day 5)

Friday: No School

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

Other News:

I'm looking forward to seeing you at your child's conference this week! Please know your child is welcome to come to their conference. I want them to share with you just as much about their growth and success as I will get too!!

Schedule for the Week of February 15-19

Unit 6: Fix-Up Monitoring/Summarize Information (Week 1)

• Letter(s): Hh
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /h/
• Associate the letter Hh with the sound /h/
• Listen for medial sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyme
• Spell CVC words using H and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: for, no, some

• Summarize what you see in pictures and read in text
• Use academic sentence frames to discuss strategies
• learn strategies for analyzing questions and finding answers, clues, and evidence in a text
• answer text-dependent summarizing questions
• create summary chart and write a summary statement (whole group)

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 6.1 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Friday, February 19th in Friday Folders.

• PLEASE work on this with your child 3 times a week for 5-10 minutes. This can make a HUGE difference with increasing sight word fluency
• Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well! (5-10 minutes a day is good)
• Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers
• Read any books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading

Writing/Concepts of Print

Book Reviews: Introduce the Genre of Book Reviews

• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Write some CVC words
• Write high-frequency words
• Demonstrate writer's voice
• Analyze story elements

Daily 5 Centers:

Read to Self: Students read books from their personalized book boxes

iPad: Students use the Raz Kids app to enjoy 1-2 stories. Afterwards, they can look at physical books, play a game, or work on Scratch Jr/Kodable (coding apps).

Word Work: students choose from a variety of activities that focus on sight words, letter work, CVC words, and rhyming

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letter Hh. Once finished with two handwriting sheets, they are invited to contribute to a classroom journal.

Listen To Reading: Students listen to a story and choose a method to summarize the story

Creation Center: Students are given a variety of materials and are asked to simply create. They can build, do an art project, etc..

Math: Unit 4 - Partners, Problems, Drawings, and Tens

• 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
• 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

• 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

• 4.17: Introduction to the -1 Routine
• Objectives: create story problems (addition and subtraction), solve addition equations; order numbers 1 through 20

**Physical copies of math homework will no longer come home. Math worksheets will be on this blog for those who wish to use them. This will save lots of paper, and hopefully alleviate any stress regarding homework responsibilities at such a young age. Looking at the math homework is still a great opportunity for parents to see what students are working on in class.

Reading home practice sheets will continue to come home every Friday. Thanks!

• Math Homework (Optional)
• Monday: NO SCHOOL
• Tuesday: 4.14, 4.14 challenge
• Wednesday: 4.15 challenge
• Thursday: 4.16, 4.16 challenge
• Friday: 4.17 challenge

Science:

• Discussing MN lakes during winter
• Focusing on observations (plants and fish)

SPECIALS: (February 15-19)

Monday:  No School

Tuesday:   P.E./Media (Day 4)

Wednesday: Music/Art (Day 5) 

Thursday: Media/P.E. (Day 6) 

Friday: Music/Art (Day 1)

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

Schedule for the Week of February 8-12

Language Arts

Unit 5: Make Connections/Make Inferences

• Letter(s): Cc
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /k/
• Associate the letter Cc with the sound /k/
• Listen for medial sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Listen for words that rhyme and suggest pairs of words that rhyme
• Spell CVC words using C and letters previously learned

• Sight Words: with, see, so

• Build upon concepts of print
• Make connections and inferences
• Build fluency through choral-reading
• Discuss specific concepts found in stories and create concept webs together
• Echo-read to build fluency
• Build comprehension through retelling
• Practice reading a rhyme with changing volume
• Use a higher and lower volume to reflect what the author or characters are saying
• Use effective inflection and intonation to make reading sound like talking
• Demonstrate active listening skills

Writing/Concepts of Print

Journals: Develop Voice; Express Feelings

• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Write CVC and high-frequency words
• Understand that writers use two uppercase letters and two end punctuation marks when writing two sentences

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 5.3 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Friday, February 12th in Friday Folders. We send home the practice sheets after we have worked on the content in class.) THANK YOU to all the families who have been working on these homework sheets and reading with your child! 

• 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 (reading) and Dream Box (math) at home as well!
• Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers
• Read any books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading :)

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 reading 2 stories, student have the choice to work on Scratch Jr. (a basic coding program) or Dream Box.

Word Work: students can choose to play roll a word, CVC word memory, CVC word puzzles, rhyme time, or a variety of other CVC/sight word based games. Students are making lots CVC words with short a, i, and o in the middle. This week also includes some new letter/word board games. 

Lots of choices! We discuss every week how to choose something that we need extra help with or that we want to get better at.

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letter Cc. 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: Students listen to the readers theater, At School. They will then take turns reading the various parts and have the opportunity to record themselves reading the story on Seesaw. We are working on "reading like we talk"

Art Center: We will be reading Eric Carle's, The Mixed Up Chameleon and painting our own mixed up chameleons during centers.

Math: Unit 4 (Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens)

• 4.9: More Patterns with Shapes
• Objectives: explore shapes and combine them to make new shapes; compare groups to determine which has fewer objects
• Vocabulary: triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, less, more, diamond, fewer

• 4.10: Break-Apart Numbers Through 10
• Objectives: find sets of partners for 10; record sets of partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2.
• Vocabulary: partner, Tiny Tumbler, Math Mountain, unknown partner
• 4.11: Numbers Through 30
• Objectives: show numbers through 30 with 10-sticks and centimeter cubes; order and compare numbers through 30.
• Vocabulary: tens, ones

• 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

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: 
• Tuesday: 4.10
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• Monday: 4.9 challenge
• Tuesday: 4.10 challenge
• Wednesday: 4.11 challenge
• Thursday: 4.13 challenge
• Friday: 

Social Studies:

• Digital Citizenship, posting safe content on the internet (we are using our class Twitter account for this) and some websites such as netsmarts.

Science:

• Discussing MN lakes during winter
• Making winter tree observations
• how are they different from fall and spring? how are they the same?

SPECIALS: (February 8-12)

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!

Other News::

• Valentines Day Party on Friday, February 12th 2:00-3:00pm (letter was sent home to all families last Friday)
• Send in homemade Valentines box/bag--if time is an issue, email me and your child can decorate a bag at school
• Treats can be sent in, but I will send them all home and let parents decided who can eat what
• Please only have your child write From "your child's name," as this will make passing out Valentines much easier
• We have 20 students in the class