Schedule for the Week of March 21-25

Unit 7: Make Inferences/Make Predictions (Week 3)

• Letter(s): Gg
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /g/
• Associate the letter Gg with the sound /g/
• Identify initial and final sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyming words
• Spell CVC words using G and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: come, here, to

• Make inferences before reading
• Build fluency through choral-reading
• Build comprehension through retelling
• Build oral language and vocabulary through whole-group and partner discussion
• Use effective phrasing to make reading sound like talking
• Reflect on and assess fluency development

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 7.3 (Will come home on Thursday, March 24 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 books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading!

Writing/Concepts of Print

Informational Reports: Introduce Informational Reports

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

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 various sentence starters (or write one on their own) to complete a class book about what we know and have learned about farms

Listen To Reading: Students will read Farm Animals by Francisco Blane together and will then take turns reading the various parts. Once everyone has had the chance to read all the parts, students are invited to record themselves reading it independently within their Seesaw portfolio.

Math: Students will put number blocks in order from 1-30 and then practice writing their numbers 1-30.

Math: Unit 5 

• Unit 5: Consolidation of Concepts
• 5.10: Partners of 6,7,8, and 9
• Objectives: visualize teen numbers in sequence as a ten and extra ones; find the unknown partner when the total and one partner are known; identify partners for the number 6
• Vocabulary: partner, pattern
• 5.11: Tens in Teen Numbers: A Game
• Objectives: solve addition and subtraction story problems; visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; use the equal and not equal signs in comparing
• Vocabulary: equal sign, not equal sign, equal, unequal
• 5.12: Tens in Teen Numbers Book
• Objectives: visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; find 10-partners
• Vocabulary: teen numbers, extra ones

• Math Practice (Optional Printouts): Challenge sheets are done for Unit 5
• Monday: 5.10
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 5.12
• Thursday: 
• Friday: NO SCHOOL

Social Studies:

• Neighborhoods: talking about what makes up a neighborhood and what is common in many neighborhoods 

Science:

• Signs that spring is on the way
• Focusing on observations (plants, fish, outside versus inside)
• human made versus found in nature, living versus nonliving

SPECIALS: (March 21-25)

Monday:  Art/Music (Day 3)

Tuesday:   P.E./Media (Day 4) 

Wednesday:  Music/Art (Day 5)

Thursday: Media/P.E. - check out  books (Day 6)

Friday: No School

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

****REMINDER!!!! - Next week is SPRING BREAK!!! - No School March 28-April 1st - ENJOY!!!

Other: Field Trip to Lowry Nature Center on Wednesday, March 23 (9AM-12PM). 

• Parents are welcome to meet us there, but must fill out the proper volunteer forms in the office. 
• We will be back in time to eat school lunch
• Please dress your child appropriately....who knows what the weather will be like. We will be outside for most of the field trip

Schedule for the Week of March 14-18

Unit 7: Make Inferences/Make Predictions (Week 2)

• Letter(s): Ee (short sound)
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /e/
• Associate the letter Ee with the sound /e/
• Listen for medial sounds in words
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyming words
• Spell CVC words using E and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: I, you, me

• Make inferences about a text
• Make before and during reading predictions
• Retell story events
• Reflect on predictions

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 7.2 (coming soon) (Will come home on Friday, March 18 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 books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading!

Writing/Concepts of Print

Book Reviews: Writing a Book Review (Analyze Characters)

• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Put spaces between words
• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Write some CVC words
• Write high-frequency words

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 write about what they could see, smell, hear, and feel on a farm. This is based on our book of the week, Who's In The Shed? They also have the option of writing about an animal in the Animal Class Journal.

Listen To Reading: Students listen to Who's In The Shed by Brenda Parkes and use show/explain what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Students are invited to make a video of themselves, draw and record on their iPad, or draw on a piece of paper.

Art Center: Students will create their very own spring bunny to display in the hallway!!

Math: Unit 5 

• Unit 5: Consolidation of Concepts
• 5.5: Make Quantities 1-20
• Objectives: show numbers 1-20 as tens and ones; practice partners for numbers 7-9; find the unknown partner when the total and one partner are known
• Vocabulary: partner, estimate
• 5.6: Geometric Patterns and Rotations
• Objectives: show geometric patterns and rotations
• Vocabulary: Attribute Card, pattern, teen number
• 5.7: More Solve and Retell Story Problems
• Objectives: tell and retell math stories, using appropriate vocabulary; write addition and subtraction equations that correspond to a story problem; practice finding 10-partners, visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
• Vocabulary: altogether, in all, total, ten teen number, equation
• 5.8: Patterns in Numbers 1-20
• Objectives: visualize teen numbers in sequence as a ten and extra ones; find the unknown partner when the total and one partner are known; identify 5-partners
• Vocabulary: partner, teen number, pattern

• Math Practice
• Monday: 5.5 challenge
• Tuesday: 5.6, 5.6 challenge
• Wednesday: 5.7 challenge
• Thursday: 5.8, 5.8 challenge
• Friday: 

Social Studies:

• Neighborhoods: talking about what makes up a neighborhood and what is common in many neighborhoods 

Science:

• Signs that spring is on the way
• Focusing on observations (plants, fish, outside versus inside)
• human made versus found in nature, living versus nonliving
• Legos Engineering: create, test, recreate, retest. 

SPECIALS: (March 14-18)

Monday:  P.E./Media (Day 4)

Tuesday:    Music/Art (Day 5)

Wednesday:  Media/P.E. - check out  books (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 March 7-11

Unit7: Make Inferences/Make Predictions - Week 1

• Letter(s): Rr
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /r/
• Associate the letter Rr with the sound /r/
• Identify initial and final consonant sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyming words
• Spell CVC words using R and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: said, was, be, we

• Make predictions using clues and evidence in a passage and what they know
• Make inferences to help make predictions
• Answer text-dependent making prediction questions
• Create a make predictions chart and write a sentence based on it (whole group)

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 7.1 (Will come home on Friday, March 11 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 books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading!

Writing/Concepts of Print

Book Reviews: Writing a Book Review (Analyze 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 characters

Centers:

Read to Self: Students can choose from our classroom leveled library and/or their leveled book box to read to themselves.

Reading RazKids: 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: Work on writing Rr's then students will use a variety of prompts and word cards to either write a mini book review or contribute to a class journal. They can write on their own or collaborate with their partner

Listen To Reading: Listen to Everybody Works by Shelley Rotner and Ken Kreisler and use story clues and pictures to explain why the the jobs in the story are important. To complete this centers, students can draw on paper or within See Saw, write, or record a video of themselves.

Math Center: Students will choose between 4 different math activities to complete that focus on measuring, counting and differentiating between larger and smaller numbers.

Math: Unit 5 

• Unit 5: Consolidation of Concepts
• 5.1: Math Stories and Scenes with Teen Numbers
• Objectives: create addition and subtraction story problems; practice using math language; visualize and represent teen numbers as ten and extra ones
• Vocabulary: partners, addition, subtraction, teen number
• 5.2: Partners of 10: Stars in the Night Sky
• Objectives: show a pattern with drawings, words, movements, and sounds; create and extend repeating patterns
• Vocabulary: big, small, pattern
• 5.3: More Partners of 10: Stars in the Night Sky
• Objectives: write equations to show partners of 10; identify missing partners of 10; show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
• Vocabulary: partners, decade numbers, teen numbers, ten, one, equation
• 5.4: Solve and Retell Story Problems
• Objectives: tell and retell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems with drawings and equations; visualize teen numbers as 10 (two 5-groups) and extra ones
• Vocabulary: addition, subtraction, story problems, teen numbers, ten, one, equation

• Math Practice: 
• Monday: 5.1 challenge
• Tuesday: 5.2, 5.2 challenge
• Wednesday: 5.3 challenge
• Thursday: 5.4, 5.4 challenge
• Friday: 

Social Studies:

• Neighborhoods: talking about what makes up a neighborhood and what is common in many neighborhoods 

Science:

• Signs that spring is on the way

SPECIALS: (March 7-11)

Monday:  Music/Art (Day 5)

Tuesday: Media/P.E. - check out  books (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!