Schedule for the Week of May 1-5

SPECIALS: (May 1-5)

Monday:  Media/P.E. (Day 2)

Tuesday:   Art/Music (Day 3)

Wednesday:  P.E./Media (Day 4)

Thursday: Music/Art (Day 5)

Friday: No School!!

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

Language Arts

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

• Blend CVC words
• Spell CVC words using all letters previously learned
• Sight Words: Review

• 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 4 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

Math: Unit 5 (Consolidation of Concepts)

• 5.21: Teen Numbers, Partners, and Equations
• Objectives: tell and retell addition and subtraction stories; solve story problems with drawings and equations; show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: add, subtract, more, fewer, equal
• 5.22: More Horizontal Graphs and Comparisons
• Objectives:sort and graph objects; read horizontal graphs and compare quantities; add or take away objects to make two groups equal
• Vocabulary: horizontal graph, more, less, most, least, equal
• 5.23: More Tens in Teen Numbers: A Game
• Objectives: take away objects to make two groups equal; realize that the 1 in teen numbers means 1 ten.
• Vocabulary: subtract, equal, teen number, ten, one

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