2.29.2016

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)
        • 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!!!! :-)

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