Monday, March 9

Monday, March 9
Sight Word Focus: was
Reader's Workshop: Through the Reader's Theater book Farm Animals, the children will work on making inferences before reading, build concepts about print, build academic and sight word vocabulary, and build fluency through choral-reading.
      
  A storybook reader is scheduled for 9:00 to read to read A SIlly Snowy Day.
Literacy Jobs

 Writer's Workshop: Storytelling Booklets
Today we will work on taking a beginning, middle and ending story from a single page and place it into a story booklet. The kids will have a page each for their story’s beginning, middle and ending.
Handwriting: Copy a Simple Paragraph

Math: Combining Sets to 5

We begin a new unit today called Addition to Ten.

For these beginning lessons of the unit, the kids will be working on combining sets, but each day we will just work to a specific total. Today and tomorrow the kids will work on combinations to 5. They are NOT be expected or asked to use symbols {=, +} to represent their thinking. Through the story Five Little Monkeys by Eileen Christelow, we will count the monkeys. “How many monkeys do we know are in the story? (5) We know that because we counted them.” Next, I will lay down three hula hoops and explain to the students that we will be working on understanding sets of numbers. “Boys and girls, we are going to work on what it looks like when we find how many in all. We sometimes call this part-part-whole.”

As we move through the book, I will ask “How many monkeys are in the bed? {Four kids stand in the first hula hoop.} How many monkeys are on the floor? {One kid stands in the next hula hoop.} Now, how many monkeys are there in all?  {The five kids squeeze into the last hula hoop.}

We will represent the rest of the story in the hula hoops: 2 and 3 monkeys, 3 and 2 monkeys, 4 and 1 monkeys, 5 and 0 monkeys.

 Music Today

                ~Late start tomorrow. Have your child wear our school colors.

~The book order is due on Wednesday.