Schedule for the Week of October 10-14

Language Arts:

Mini-Lessons for the First 30 Days (Rituals, Routines, Responsibilities of Daily 5/Readers Workshop)

Mini-lessons are short (5-15 minutes) and laser-focused. These particular lessons are like stepping stones and will help us become ready to confidently dive into more vigorous reading and writing instruction. These will be revisited throughout the year.

This is our last week of the rituals and routines portion of our language arts curriculum. Next week, after our MEA break, we will start our first unit, which will focus on centers in which students have choice in how they show understanding/mastery, sight word practice, rhyming, main idea, and letter sound, formation, and understanding. We will also start sending home some "home practice" for students.

• Good Readers Use Pictures
• Introduce students to how they can use pictures to better understand text
• Good Readers ReRead
• Use rereading as a strategy to understand text
• Good Readers Use Chunks
• Help students use words in words to figure out an unknown word
• Good Readers Make Predictions
• Practice looking at pictures in a book to predict what a book is about
• Review of What Good Readers Do
• Read Alouds: a lot of stories will be read to model and add rich discussion to the mini lessons mentioned above.
• Journals/writers workshop: write/draw a basic entry every day, write as a whole group too
• how do we respond to stories? (writing about characters, settings, favorite parts of stories, parts that surprised us)
• why do we do them? (to become better writers and have fun!)
• practice sharing/turn and talk
• understand expectations of writers workshop (start write away, work quietly, stay in one spot, write the whole time, build writing stamina, share your work)
• writing our first and last name every day now!
• We will be focusing on letters:
• Uu
• Vv
• Ww
• Xx
• Yy
• Zz

Math: (Unit Test on Friday)

Unit 1: (we will be re-reviewing some of these concepts so students are readily prepared for our test on Friday)

• 1.20/21:  More Objects and Numbers Through 10: Square Inch Tiles/More Scenes of 2,3,4, and 5
• Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count 1 through 10 objects; identify numbers 1 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; make and compare circles and squares; explore the differences between round and square and between small and large
• Vocabulary: vertical, horizontal, more, fewer, order, straight line, diagonal, circle, square, small, large
• 1.23: Scenes of 1
• Objectives: explore groups of 1
• Vocabulary: scene, pair
• 1.24: Make a Class Graph
• Objectives: make and read a graph; identify shapes
• graph, fewer, less
Science:

We will be visiting our class tree and talking about how it is getting ready for the colder weather.  




Social Studies:

The class will be continue working on Unit 1 - Who Am I?  We will be talking about our families.



SPECIALS: (October 10-14)


Monday:   Music/Art (Day 1)
Tuesday:    Media/P.E. (Day 2)
Wednesday: Art/Music (Day 3)
Thursday:   P.E./Media (Day 4) 
Friday:  Music/Art (Day 5)


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


COMPUTER: Every Tuesday @ 10am


Other News:
• If you haven't yet, sign up for fall conferences via Family Access (Skyward). Call the office if you are unable to log on. I will send an email out this week to those who have not yet signed up. Thanks!
• As the weather is changing, please make sure your child has warm gear to wear outside. We do go outside every day. 
• Please send Friday folders back every week (preferably Monday or Tuesday)  
• So far I have 4 parents who have signed up to plan our Halloween party on Oct. 31st. If you would like to be a part of the party and planning, please let me know! We would love more volunteers.