5.03.2016

Schedule for the Week of May 2-6

Language Arts

Unit 9: Make Connections and Identify Cause and Effect (Week 2)

  • Letter(s): Kk
  • Phonics:
    • Identify the sound /k/
    • Associate the letter Kk with the sound /k/
    • Listen for /k/
    • Orally substitute initial sounds
    • Blend CVC words
    • Spell CVC words using Kk and letters previously learned
  • Sight Words: now, like, do

  • Build academic vocabulary and concepts related to fantasy
  • Determine the cause and effect in a text
  • Retell story events
  • Reflect on cause and effect
  • Build oral language and vocabulary through whole-group and partner discussion
  • Reread stories to build fluency

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 9.2 (Will come home on Thursday, May 5 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
  • Practice sight words throughout the week: write and read them

Writing/Concepts of Print

Informational Reports: Write 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
  • Draft, revise, or edit a report

Language Arts Centers:

Read to Self: Students read books from their personalized book boxes. Students can also choose from our classroom leveled library.

Read With Others: The focus of this center is working together and making decisions together. Students will focus on using the app Raz Kids to read with each other or use phonics decodable books to read with each other.

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/Science: Students work in their new "fish observation journal" to observe a variety of things regarding our pet fish. We make 1-2 observations a week. Some are done independently, some are done in groups, and some are done as a whole class. We will work on these into May and continue to discuss our observations as we go

Listen To Reading: Students listen to Teddy On The Move by Robert Hall. They will then work together to find example of cause and effect in the story. They can use Seesaw or paper to showcase their examples.

Creation Station: Students are invited to create whatever they would like with provided materials: watercolor paper and water colors

Math: 

Unit 6: Money, Time, Measurement, and Numbers
  • 6.3: Introduction to Time
    • Objectives: describe the parts of an analog clock; read the time on a analog clock and a digital clock; identify reasons for measuring time
    • Vocabulary: clock, face, hands, hour, minute, time, yesterday, today, tomorrow
  • 6.4: Practice: Show and Write Times
    • Objectives: show on-the-hour times on a clock; read a clock and write the time to the hour
    • Vocabulary: clock, digital clock, hour hand, minute hand, hour, minute
    • 6.5: Time In Our World
      • Objectives: explore time as it relates to daily activities; read a clock and write the time to the hour
      • Vocabulary: clock, digital clock
    • 6.6: Time to the Half-Hour
      • Objectives: show half-hour times on a clock; read and write the time
      • Vocabulary: half-hour, clock, digital clock

    Science:
    • Continuing to observe signs of spring
      • creating graphic organizer regarding what we observe
    • Observing any changes in our "classroom tree"
    • Observing signs of wildlife, discussing habitats
    • Identifying things found in nature versus things that are human made (this is a medallion!)
    • Observing fish, learning how different parts of a fish function (gils, fins), discussing habitats of a fish
    Printable Math Practice: 
    SPECIALS: (May 2-6)

    Monday:  Art/Music (Day 3)
    Tuesday:   P.E./Media (Day 4)
    Wednesday:  Music/Art (Day 5)
    Thursday: Media/P.E. (Day 6) - Library Check-out Day!
    Friday: No School!!

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

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