Tuesday, May 26

 
Tuesday, May 26

Read Aloud: Rainbow Stew By: Cathryn Falwell Genre: Fiction

 Science Connection: Plants: Basic Needs and Life Cycle

This fiction text is about growing, harvesting, and eating your own food. Children discover vegetables come in a wide variety of colors, in fact a rainbow of colors.  

Connect and Teach: Set a Purpose 

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS                         Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: VCe Long a

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Verbs
 Literacy Jobs 
**You can expect your child to bring a book home to read to you one more time from their book bag.

Math: The Penny
We begin focusing on coins this week beginning with the penny today. Naming the coins and telling their value can be tricky for some kids. Keep exposing your kids to coins so they learn their names and values. (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)  

The kids are sure enjoy this coin song this week!

Animal Secrets: Why Do Woodpeckers Peck Wood?
In this lesson, the kids observe animal behaviors and work to discover a pattern: all animals seek food in order to survive. The activity, Eat Like an Animal, includes physical movement in which the kids act out animal behaviors, pretending to be quail scratching in the dirt, raccoons wading in the water, and woodpeckers pecking a log.

Music Today

~"Teach the Teacher" forms are due Thursday.

Friday, May 22

  

 Friday, May 22
Green Day: No Library

Big Book: Growing Vegetable Soup By: Lois Ehlert
Genre: Fiction Review Power Words: crop, factory, ingredient 
Determine Word Meaning: Multiple-Meaning Words

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS             Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Irregular Words: want

 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Commas in Lists
 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Time to the Hour...Day 3

The kids will work with more 'time to the hour' with more activities that support both analog and digital times.  
   It's day 160...Zero the Hero will visit!

We will learn why we celebrate Memorial Day... 
~Story: What is Memorial Day?
~Watercolor Paint a Memorial Day Coloring Sheet
~Mini Book of Facts
Project: Poppy
We see poppies for sale this time of year so the children will learn why this is done and make a poppy to bring home. 
Phy Ed Today 

~ No extra news for today.

~Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

Thursday, May 21

 

 Thursday, May 21
Orange Day: Technology
Technology class at 8:20.

Big Book: Growing Vegetable Soup By: Lois Ehlert
Genre: Fiction
Print Concepts: One-to-One Correspodence
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

  Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset and Rime, Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Final Blends -lp, -nk
Irregular Words: want
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Commas in Lists

 Literacy Jobs 

Writer's Workshop: The Best Part of Me By: Wendy Ewald
After hearing the story, the kids will write what they think is the best part of themselves.

Math: Time to the Hour

The kids will work with more 'time to the hour' with some additional activities that support both analog and digital times.     

Time for Kids: Deep Blue Sea

Music Today
 
~Please have your child in their running shoes and purple shirt when they come to school tomorrow!
~Be the Teacher lessons are due Thursday, May 28.
~Reading to the preschoolers is always my favorite thing to watch the kids do!

Wednesday, May 20

 

 Tuesday, May 20
Gold Day (No computer class or library.)  

Big Book: Growing Vegetable Soup By: Lois Ehlert
Genre: Fiction
Science Connection: Plants: Basic Needs and Life Cycle This fiction text shows the steps to make vegetable soup. Children follow as the characters plant seeds, water, watch, weed, pick, and finally chop and cook vegetables to take vegetables from plants to plate. Connect and Teach: Set a Purpose

Read Aloud: PB & J Hooray! By: Janet Nolan Genre: Informational Text  

Connect and Teach: Steps in a Sequence

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS                         Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset and Rime, Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Final Blends -st, -ft

Irregular Words: want
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Commas in Lists
 Literacy Jobs 
   
~We are heading to preschool this morning and afternoon to read the stories from our book bins!

Math: Time to the Hour
Since the beginning of May, the kids have been working on time to the hour during our calendar time. We will continue that learning by matching the analog time with digital time, manipulating a clock to place the hands to the correct hour, and draw the hands on a clock to represent the time to the hour.

Phy Ed Today 

~ There will be a detailed letter in the Wednesday envelope regarding Kindergarten Track & Field!

Tuesday, May 19

 

 Tuesday, May 19
White Day (No computer class or library.) 

Read Aloud: PB & J Hooray! By: Janet Nolan Genre: Informational Text 

Connect and Teach: Evaluate Details

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS                         Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset and Rime, Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Final Blends -nt, -nd
Irregular Words: want
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Commas in Lists

Writer's Workshop: Memory Book
The children will be guided in filling in the details shown in the picture below...

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Times of Day

Everyday since the beginning of May, the kids have worked on 'time to the hour' in their calendar book. Today, we will focus on the different times of the day (morning, afternoon, night).     

Why Do Birds Lay Eggs in Spring?
In this lesson, students learn why spring is the best time for babies to be born. In the activity, Build A Bird Nest, students make a model of a bird nest and notice how birds can change their environment to meet their needs when they build their nests.

Music Today
 
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