Schedule for the Week of March 10-14

Reading: Lesson 21

• Phonemic Awareness: Review phoneme blending
• Word Building: -ed and -en words
• High-Frequency Words: out, who
• Robust Vocabulary: contrast, meander, tidy, famished, modify, unfortunate, treasure, sturdy, worth, compliment, confer, mingle
• Comprehension: Rereading stories to monitor comprehension, identifying the setting
• Literature: Rereading What a Treasure! by Jane Hillenbrand, Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats, The Most Perfect Spot by Diane Good, and The Snug Little House by Elis Moorhouse Lewis
• Writing: Description of a Place and continuing to work on word choice

Reading Homework

• Lesson 20 Homework

Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 3-5 throughout the week) 

• Lesson 21 Red (focuses on reading basic CVC words in the -ed, -et, and -en family )
• Lesson 21 Blue(includes short sentences that focus on new sight word, out and who. It also focuses on basic CVC words)
• Lesson 21 Green(includes more complex sentences)

Math: Unit 4 

• Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
• 4.22: Horizontal Graphs and Comparisons
• Objectives: use horizontal graphs to compare quantities; find and write equations for partners of 3,4,5, 6, and 10
• Vocabulary: graph, partners
• 4.23: Teen Number Book
• Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones, match pictures to numbers, compare groups to determine which has fewer objects
• Vocabulary: teen number
• 4.24: Shapes in a Butterfly Scene
• Objectives: identify and count shapes
• Vocabulary: shape, rectangle, circle, triangle, oval, trapezoid, diamond

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: 4.22
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: 4.24
• Thursday: Unit 4 Test
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• 4.22 challenge
• 4.23 challenge
• 4.24 challenge

Schedule for the Week of March 3-7

  Hello! 

Let's look at what the week ahead has in store for us!!

 

Reading: Lesson 20

• Phonemic Awareness: Review phoneme isolation, identify, and categorization
• Letter: Ee
• High-Frequency Words: we, want
• Robust Vocabulary: treasure, sturdy, worth, compliment, confer, mingle
• Comprehension: Discussing reality/fantasy stories and story structure
• Literature: Reading What a Treasure! by Jane Hillenbrand and Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats
• Writing: Description of a Thing and continuing to work on word choice

Reading Homework

• Lesson 19 Homework (Due back Friday, March 7)

Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 3-5 throughout the week) 

•  Lesson 20 Red(focuses on recognizing words that start with the letter E)
• Lesson 20 Blue(includes short sentences that focus on new sight word, we and want. It also focuses on basic CVC words)
• Lesson 20 Green (includes more complex sentences)

Math: Unit 4 

• Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
• 4.17: Introduction to the -1 Routine
• Objectives: create story problems (addition and subtraction), solve addition equations; order numbers 1 through 20
• Vocabulary: addition sign, subtraction sign, add
• 4.18: 2- and 3-Dimensional Shapes: Triangles
• Objectives: find and explore triangles in three-dimensional shapes and through creative movement; show teen numbers as ten and extra ones; order numbers 1 through 25
• Vocabulary: triangle, prism, pyramid
• 4.19: Vertical Graphs and Comparisons
• Objectives: use vertical graphs to compare quantities; solve addition equations and explore addition strategies
• Vocabulary: compare, more, fewer, graph, equation, add
• 4.20: Equations: Partners of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10
• Objectives: find and write equations for partners of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10; show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones
• Vocabulary: partner equation
• 4.21: Triangles and Addition and Subtraction Stories
• Objectives: express addition and subtraction story problems in drawings and expressions; find and explore triangles in three-dimensional shapes and through creative movement
• Vocabulary: triangle, prism, pyramid

• Math Homework: 
• Monday:
• Tuesday: 4.18
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 4.20
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• 4.17 challenge
• 4.18 challenge
• 4.20 challenge
• 4.21 challenge

Schedule for the Week of February 24-28

Hello! I am really looking forward to meeting with all of you to talk about your child's great accomplishments in Kindergarten!  Feel free to bring your child to the conference too!

We also have a dental presentation (thanks to West Lake Dentistry) this Thursday at 9:30AM.

Please remember that this Friday, February 28th is a normal school day and we will be having our READ-A-THON that day too!

Reading: Lesson 19

• Phonemic Awareness: Identify middle sound in words
• Word Building: -ox, -ix
• High-Frequency Words: up, down
• Robust Vocabulary: contrast, meander, tidy, famished, modify, unfortunate
• Comprehension: Discussing reality/fantasy stories and working on summarizing stories
• Literature: Reading Swing High, Swing Low by Fiona Coward and The Most Perfect Spot by Diane Good
• Writing: Description of a Person and working on word choice in writing

Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week) 

•  Lesson 19 Red (focuses on recognizing  and reading -ix, -ox, and -ax words)
• Lesson 19 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on our most recent sight words. It also focuses on basic CVC -ix and -ox words)
• Lesson 19 Green (includes more complex sentences)

Reading Homework

• Lesson 18 Homework (Due back February 28)

Math: Unit 4 

• Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
• 4.13: More Patterns with Shapes and Repeating Patterns
• Objectives: explore shapes and combine them to make new shapes; make repeating patterns with shapes, sounds, and actions; draw matching lines to see more and fewer
• Vocabulary: hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, triangle, more, fewer, extra
• 4.14: Partners of 10 with 5-Groups
• Objectives: find partners of 10 in 5-groups; record sets or partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary: 5-frame, partner, Tiny Tumbler, Math Mountain , lef, right, forward, ahead, back, apart, toward
• 4.15: Addition Equations
• Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; show teen numbers as 10 + 1-digit number, solve addition equations and explore addition strategies; order numbers 1 through 18
• Vocabulary: partner, equation, addition, add, equal, equals sign, addition sign
• 4.16: More Partners of 10 with 5-Groups
• Objectives: find partners of 10 in 5-groups; record sets or partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2; develop spatial concepts
• Vocabulary:5-frame; Tiny Tumbler; Math Mountain; left, right, forward, ahead, back, apart, toward

• Math Homework: 
• Monday:
• Tuesday: 4.14
• Wednesday: 
• Thursday: 4.16
• Friday: 

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• 4.13 challenge
• 4.14 challenge
• 4.15 challenge
• 4.16 challenge