Mrs. Tongen's 'K'olorful K-Kids: Tuesday, November 5

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Tuesday, November 5

Tuesday, November 5

Letter Study: Pp
Project: P is for Pizza

Popcorn Word: or

Phonological Awareness: Sound Discrimination-listening for words that begin with the same sound. We say a chant that goes like this:
Five lizards live in a log.
One left to live with a frog.
One left to live with a dog.
Two left to live a hog.
One little lizard living in the bog.
It's a little lonely living in a log.We tally how many times we hear /l/ words.
Segment Words by Syllables by Pantomiming: A student performs an action and the class guesses what it is. For instance, if a student pantomimes climbing, the kids will repeat the word climbing, clap the syllables, and say how many syllables it is. In addition, we will create a KWL chart which is: What I Know, What I Want to Know, What I Learned

Language Arts: Using the book The Life Cycle of a Frog, the kids will build academic vocabulary and concepts related to frogs while identifying and discussing nonfiction text features (table of contents and glossary).

Writer's Workshop: An Introduction to Writing Folders
The children are guided through the purpose of having their own writing folder and why it's important to keep it neat/clean and where to store them.

DAILY 5: New Word Work: Beginning Sound Sort
New Work on Writing: Rainbow Writing a Friend's Name

Math: Grab and Count: Ordering
The children grab a handful of connecting cubes 4 different times. Each time, they connect the cubes and determine the order to put them in from least to most. They record their findings on paper. Their work focuses on:
~Comparing lengths to see which is more.
~Developing language for comparing lengths (long, longer than, short, shorter than, the same, equal to) and quantities (more, greater, less, fewer, most, least, fewest, same, and equal to.)