Schedule for the Week of April 11-15

Language Arts:

Unit 8: Determine Text Importance/Compare and Contrast (Week 2 of 3)

• Letter(s): Ww
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /w/
• Associate the letter Ww with the sound /w/
• Identify initial /w/
• Blend CVC words
• Identify and produce rhyming words
• Spell CVC words using Ww and letters previously learned
• Sight Words: go, there, then, out

• Determine text importance
• Compare and contrast information in the text
• Identify and discuss nonfiction text features (table of contents, boldface, glossary, labels)
• Compare and contrast using graphic organizer

Writing/Concepts of Print

Informational Reports: Model Writing an Informational Report

• 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
• Reread from the beginning of a sentence
• Write a book review
• Plan and draft an informational report

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 8.2 (Will come home on Friday, April 15 in Friday Folders.

• Have your child read the books from their book bag throughout the week
• A variety of emerging reader printable books:  Leveled Readers
• Dream Box and Raz Kids can both be accessed at home

Language Arts Centers:

Read to Self: Students read books from their personalized book bags, 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 New choices added every 1-2 weeks

Work on Writing: Create a "mini book" that describes what they think schools will look like in the future

Listen To Reading: Students listen to the story Children Past and Present, and then use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast how children lived in the past compared to how they live now.

Building: Students work on building something out of a variety of tools and are encouraged to use their Seesaw e-journal to explain their creation

Math: Unit 5 (Consolidation of Concepts)

• 5.17: Story Problems: Totals Under 10
• Objectives: tell and retell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems with drawings and equations; take away objects to make two groups equal
• Vocabulary: add, subtract, more, fewer, equal

• 5.18: Subtract to Make Equal Groups
• Objectives: add or take away objects to make two groups equal
• Vocabulary: front, forward, back, ahead, left, right, over, add, subtract, equal
• 5.19: More Vertical Graphs and Comparisons
• Objectives: sort and graph objects; read vertical graphs and compare quantities; visualize teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
• Vocabulary: graph, more than, less than, most, least, teen number
• 5.20: Practice: Pattern Block and Attribute Card Activities
• Objectives: generate repeating patterns; show geometric patterns and turns; practice 10-partners and 6-partners
• Vocabulary: pattern, rectangle, circle, triangle, square, partners

Math Practice (Optional Printouts): Challenge sheets are done for Unit 5

• Monday: 
• Tuesday:  5.18
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 5.20
• Friday: 

Social Studies:

• Neighborhoods: continue talking about what makes up a neighborhood and what is common in many neighborhoods
• Create a neighborhood art project together (didn't get to this last week)

Science:

• Signs that spring is on the way-take pictures in our Seesaw e-journal
• Focusing on observations (plants, fish, outside versus inside)
• human made versus found in nature, living versus nonliving
• Identify different parts of a fish

SPECIALS: (April 11-15)

Monday:  Media/P.E. (Day 6) - Library Check-out Day! 

Tuesday:    Music/Art (Day 1)

Wednesday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Thursday: Art/Music (Day 3)

Friday: P.E./Media (Day 4)

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

Field Trip Reminder: Voyageur Environment Center (April 13)

• What: Aquatic insects, Land insects, and a Craft
• When: Wednesday, April 13th (9:00-12:45)
• Where:  Voyageur Environmental Center: 7000 County Road 15, Mound, MN 55364

Any parents are welcome to meet us there, but you must make sure you have filled out the proper volunteers forms in the office.

A majority of this field trip will be outside, so please dress your child accordingly.