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It's B week so we made butter! Pictures taken Annabelle

Working on:

Unit 6: Fix-Up Monitoring/Summarize Information (Week 1

·       Letter(s): Hh

·       Phonics:

o   Identify the sound /h/

o   Associate the letter Hh with the sound /h/

o   Listen for medial sounds

o   Blend CVC words

o   Identify and produce rhyme

o   Spell CVC words using H and letters previously learned

·       Sight Words: for, no, some

·       Summarize what you see in pictures and read in text

·       Use academic sentence frames to discuss strategies

·       learn strategies for analyzing questions and finding answers, clues, and evidence in a text

·       answer text-dependent summarizing questions

·       create summary chart and write a summary statement (whole group)

 

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 6.1  Will come home on Friday, February 19th in Friday Folders.

·       PLEASE work on this with your child 3 times a week for 5-10 minutes. This can make a HUGE difference with increasing sight word fluency

·       Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids and Dream Box at home as well! (5-10 minutes a day is good)

·       Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers

·       Read any books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading

 

Writing/Concepts of Print

Book Reviews: Introduce the Genre of Book Reviews

·       Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly

·       Use appropriate end punctuation

·       Write some CVC words

·       Write high-frequency words

·       Demonstrate writer's voice\

·       Analyze story elements

Writing Prompts:

·       Working on sounding out our own words and using our sight words in our sentences!!!!!!!!! for, no some) Ms. Rasicot will give writing prompts but will always challenges students to write their own sentence or two!

 

Daily Centers:

Read to Self: Students read books from their personalized book boxes

iPad: Students use the Raz Kids app to enjoy 1-2 stories. Afterwards, they can look at physical books, play a game, or work on Scratch Jr.

Word Work: students choose from a variety of activities that focus on sight words, letter work, CVC words, and rhyming

 

Work on Writing: Students will work on writing the letter Hh. Once finished with two handwriting sheets, they are invited to contribute to a classroom journal.

Listen To Reading: Students listen to the story and choose a method to summarize the story.

Creation Center: Students are given a variety of materials and are asked to simply create. They can build, do an art project, etc..

Math: Unit 4 - Partners, Problems, Drawings, and Tens

·       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

·       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

·       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

·       4.17: Introduction to the -1 Routine

·       Objectives: create story problems (addition and subtraction), solve addition equations; order numbers 1 through 20

**Physical copies of math homework will no longer come home. Math worksheets will be on this blog for those who wish to use them. This will save lots of paper, and hopefully alleviate any stress regarding homework responsibilities at such a young age. Looking at the math homework is still a great opportunity for parents to see what students are working on in class.

Reading home practice sheets will continue to come home every Friday. Thanks!

 

·       Math Homework (Optional)

·       Monday: NO SCHOOL

·       Tuesday: 4.14, 4.14 challenge

·       Wednesday: 4.15 challenge

·       Thursday: 4.16, 4.16 challenge

·       Friday: 4.17 challenge

Science:

·       Discussing MN lakes during winter

·       Focusing on observations (plants and fish)

 

SPECIALS

Monday: NO SCHOOL

Tuesday:music/art

Wednesday: media/gym

Thursday: art/music

Friday: gym/media

Feburary 8 - 12

Unit 5: Make Connections/Make Inferences

• Letter(s): Cc
• Phonics:
• Identify the sound /k/
• Associate the letter Cc with the sound /k/
• Listen for medial sounds
• Blend CVC words
• Listen for words that rhyme and suggest pairs of words that rhyme
• Spell CVC words using C and letters previously learned

• Sight Words: with, see, so

• Build upon concepts of print
• Make connections and inferences
• Build fluency through choral-reading
• Discuss specific concepts found in stories and create concept webs together
• Echo-read to build fluency
• Build comprehension through retelling
• Practice reading a rhyme with changing volume
• Use a higher and lower volume to reflect what the author or characters are saying
• Use effective inflection and intonation to make reading sound like talking
• Demonstrate active listening skills

Writing/Concepts of Print

Journals: Develop Voice; Express Feelings

• Use uppercase and lowercase letters correctly
• Use appropriate end punctuation
• Write CVC and high-frequency words
• Understand that writers use two uppercase letters and two end punctuation marks when writing two sentences

Writing Prompts:

·       Monday: weekend update (share what you did over the weekend)

·       Tuesday: proud moment at school

·       Wednesday: proud moment at home or in community

·       Thursday: something that starts with the letter Cc

·       Friday: Free write! (students choose what they write about)

Language Arts Home Practice Lesson 5.3 (COMING SOON!) (Will come home on Friday, February 12th in Friday Folders. We send home the practice sheets after we have worked on the content in class.) THANK YOU to all the families who have been working on these homework sheets and reading with your child! Remember to read and reread the books in your child's book bags.  Bring them back on Friday and I will put new books in their bags!

·       PLEASE work on this with your child 2-3 times a week for at least 10 minutes. We need YOU as a partner in helping your child become fluent with letter recognition, sound, and sight words. Thanks!

·       Don't forget to utilize Raz Kids (reading) and Dream Box (math) at home as well!

·       Check out these downloadable leveled readers Leveled Readers

·       Read any books to your child for fun!! Model a love of reading :)

Centers this week include:

Math Center: Students will use their vegetables and fruit pictures to make addition and subtraction problems. They can work with a classmate and come up with a real world situation and try to make and math problem. Also, they may choose to build teen numbers and use the Stop Motion App to record what they have made. (Some students may choose to work on writing teen number or number 0 - 30 or beyond.)

iPad Read to Self/Read to Others: students use Raz Kids to listen to a story, read a story, and answer comprehensive questions about the story. Students can also read a story with their partner or on their own. After reading 2 stories, student have the choice to work on Scratch Jr. (a basic coding program) or Dream Box.

Word Work: students can choose to play roll a word, CVC word memory, CVC word puzzles, rhyme time, or a variety of other CVC/sight word based games. Students are making lots CVC words with short a, i, and o in the middle. This week also includes some new letter/word board games. 

Lots of choices! We will discuss every how to choose something that we need extra help with or that we want to get better at.

Letter and Sound: Students will work on writing the letter Cc. They will circle their best work and be encouraged to discuss their work on Seesaw. 

Writing Center: Last week the students listen to and made inferences while I read the book, Phooey. They will be making their own books and then they can record their work in Seesaw.

Listen To Reading: Students will listen to a story and then try to read it together as a group. They can discuss what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.

Art Center: We will be reading Eric Carle's, The Mixed Up Chameleon and painting our own mixed up chameleons during centers.

Math: Unit 4 (Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens)

·       4.9: More Patterns with Shapes

§  Objectives: explore shapes and combine them to make new shapes; compare groups to determine which has fewer objects

§  Vocabulary: triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, less, more, diamond, fewer

·       4.10: Break-Apart Numbers Through 10

·       Objectives: find sets of partners for 10; record sets of partners for 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2.

·       Vocabulary: partner, Tiny Tumbler, Math Mountain, unknown partner

·       4.11: Numbers Through 30

·       Objectives: show numbers through 30 with 10-sticks and centimeter cubes; order and compare numbers through 30.

·       Vocabulary: tens, ones

·       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

·       Math Homework: 

·       Monday: 

·       Tuesday: 4.10

·       Wednesday: 

·       Thursday: 

·       Friday: 

·       Math Challenge (Optional)

·       Monday: 4.9 challenge

·       Tuesday: 4.10 challenge

·       Wednesday: 4.11 challenge

·       Thursday: 4.13 challenge

·       Friday: 

Social Studies:

·       Digital Citizenship, posting safe content on the internet (we are using our class Twitter account for this)

Science:

·       Discussing MN lakes during winter

·       Making winter tree observations

·       how are they different from fall and spring? how are they the same?

SPECIALS

Monday: 5 gym/media (book check-out day!!!)

Tuesday: 6 art/music

Wednesday: 1 gym/media

Thursday: 2 music/art

Friday: 3 media/gym

Other News:

• Valentines Day Party on Friday, February 12th 2:00 - 3:00
• Send in homemade Valentines box/bag--if time is an issue, email me and your child can decorate a bag at school
• Treats can be sent in
• Please only have your child write From "your child's name," as this will make passing out Valentines much easier---we will pass out cards right away in the morning 
• We have 22 students in the class