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!