Monday, January 31

Monday, January 31

Sight Word Focus: when

KinderLiteracy: A Bad Case of Stripes
The kids will listen to A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon to build an interest in the topic this week: Be Yourself/Body.
The comprehension strategy worked on this week is Connections/Inferring.

KinderPhonics: Short o Vowel Sound

Phonemic Awareness: Manipulate ENDING Sounds
Changing the ending sound in a word to make a new word: cap to can, rat to rap, etc.
 Writer's Workshop: Introduction to 'Narrative' Stories
Simply put, the children will start writing about something real about themselves. 

Literacy Jobs 

          ~A few new activities are available during this independent learning time. 

~Short Vowel Sorts
~Sight Word Work
~New Ipad Stories 
 KinderMath: Numbers to 100

*We begin a new unit today called Numbers to 100 with today's lesson focusing on counting by 2's.
A stack of 20 unmatched socks will be placed in the middle of our circle. "How many socks do I have? Can I know without counting? How many socks do you need to put on your shoes? When we have two of something we call this a pair or a match." After making the 10 sets of pairs, we will go back and count the socks one-by-one. "Boys and girls, remember Mathematicians always want to get to an answer the most efficient way possible! I will count them by 2’s. When we count by 2’s, we are skip-counting."  I will show the kids how to “whisper” count to 20 by whispering the skipped number and “shouting” the numbers counted by 2’s. For example, 1 (whisper), 2 (shout), 3 (whisper), 4 (shout), etc.

 Music Today 

~I look forward to seeing those of you who are able to make Rise & Read tomorrow morning...What a GREAT way to kick-off I Love to Read Month!