Wednesday, May 2

Wednesday, May 2

Phonics: Long vowel i & Sneaky 'e' review

Reader's Workshop: The children will practice their parts in the Reader's Theater book Finding Shapes.

DAILY 5

Handwriting: Practicing Punctuation (. , ! ?)

SMART Room 
Math: Introduction to Fact Families

New Concept: These lessons will take a closer look at story problems. We have been working with number bonds in the past, but today we will BE the number bond! Call 5 students up to have them act out the number bond. We are going to act out this story problem. There were 3 friends playing basketball in the park (have them stand in one of the circles). There were 2 friends playing on the swings at the park (have them stand in the other circle). How many were in the park altogether? (have all of the students move to the larger circle)? I also can write the fact family for this problem. 
Whole Group Explore: Now you will get a number bond page to share with your partner. I will call a few friends up to help act out our story problems. If you are not one of the actors, you will be also doing the problem on your number bond paper. We will also write the different equations for this story. 
Student Application: Read the story problems to the students. Students will then solve the story problem.
Music Today

~The children enjoyed the mermaid who read to them yesterday...

~There are A LOT of things in the Wednesday envelope today. Be sure to look carefully for some smaller inserts.
~The last book order of the year is due Wednesday, May 9.