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!