Friday, March 22

 Friday, March 22

Math: Equal Sign

Today we move into the abstract symbol of the equal sign. As you know, the kids have worked hard in understanding combining of sets. Now it's time to apply those skills through a new means! To help launch today's lesson, we will read through Animals on Board by: Stuart Murphy and meet the character, Ellie the Equal.

For today, the kids will use the equal sign rather than the term 'makes' to complete the problem. 

4 + 2 = 6

Phy Ed  

Project: Sun Catcher Bunny

Computer class this afternoon.

We are watching Here Comes Peter Cottontail this afternoon.

~The Peeps were fed Smarties over the last couple of days, and are ready to come home today! 
~The kids did a great job keeping their egg warm yesterday...just look at all those cracks!

 ~If the kids are successful at staying on their egg today, a little surprise is going to 'hatch' in their nest!

~I will send home all their winter gear today. Here's hoping it won't be needed anymore after break!

Have a wonderful spring break!

Thursday, March 21

 Thursday, March 21

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
shin to ship to shop to shot to shock to sock to sick to sack to rack to rash to dash to 

cash to clash to crash to crush to brush to rush

 Irregular Words: your, want, go, no, so, goes, says   NEW: she, we
                Read: She goes to the shop at ten.
                                        Are we in a rush to get to the bash?
                                            Jill says she wants to have fish sticks.

Spell: We went on a ship.
                               Will you shut the trash can lid?
                                   She grabs a snack from the shelf.

KinderLiteracy: Rabbits
We'll review the vocabulary words...

 Literacy Jobs 

Writer's Workshop: Introduction to a Sentence Stem
These are basically sentence starters such as: I like ____. or This is a ___. The sentence  stems are mostly words that have been explicitly taught and the children know how to read. Today, all of the kids will work with I see a _____. as their sentence starter. 

Math: Plus Sign
Today we move into the abstract symbol of the plus sign. As you know, the kids have had a ton of practice combining sets to find out how many in all. Now it's time to apply those skills through a new means! To help launch today's lesson, we will read through If I Were a Plus Sign by: Trisha Speed Shaskan and meet the character, Gus the Plus.
For today, we will still use the word, 'makes' rather than the equal sign. 
4 + 2 makes 6

Music Today 

Your child will be trying to 'hatch' an egg over the next two days. If they are successful at staying on their egg, it might have a crack in it before the end of the day tomorrow! 

Your child has been taking very good care of their peep this week! It is wrapped in a cozy napkin and being fed Smarties so it doesn't go hungry!

   

~No extra news for today. 

Wednesday, March 20

Wednesday, March 20

 

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: fish, rush, ship, shut

 Segment: shin, shock, dash, brush
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes: ck, ff, f, ll, l, ss, zz, z, s (/s/, /z/), u, e, i, o, a
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: k, u, e, i, o, a, f l, s, z

Blending Drill 

sick to slick to lick to kick to quick to wick to will to pill to pick to puck to  

tuck to truck to struck to strum to strums 

 New Concept 

           The grapheme SH spells /sh/

KinderLiteracy: Rabbits

The kids are answering these questions today...

Literacy Jobs   

 

Library Day!

Writing Activity: My peep likes to...
*In addition to the peep activity, we are going to spread a little love by making some cards for residents of a nursing home.

Math: Add with a Number Path

The children will work with a number path similar to the picture below. 

Researchers believe that a number line is just too abstract for our young mathematicians. Our students need to be able to visually see each unit, which is the box containing a number. This allows for concrete understanding of seeing how many spaces it is from one number to another.

The kids will do a number of problems similar to this:

There were 4 frogs on a log. 2 more hopped on. How many are on the log?

Phy Ed  

 Time for Kids: It's Spring!

 

~The book order is due today.

Tuesday, March 19

 Tuesday, March 19
HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING!

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
pack to sack to snack to slack to black to block to lock to lick to pick to sick to stick to 

stuck to tuck to truck to trick to tick 

 Irregular Words: your, want, go, no, so   NEW: goes, says
    Read: Mom packs the best snacks.
                    The duck got stuck in the muck.
                           I want to pick up a stick and a brick.
Spell: The clock goes tick tock.
             Jack has a big black truck.
                    I want to go to the track to run.

KinderLiteracy: Rabbits

We will focus these vocabulary words within the story (pellets, fluffy, lively, burrow, gnaw) and answer these questions:
1) Who is the author? What is their job?
2) What is one fact we heard from the book?

 Literacy Jobs 

Writing Activity: Describing our peeps

Math: Add with Fingers

Adding with our fingers is a strategy that can help build addition fluency. The kids will do some fun activities involving their fingers including this Funny Fingers interactive activity. 

Music Today 

Directed Drawing: Easter Bunny 

   

~The book order is due tomorrow. Scholastic Book Order 

Monday, March 18

    Monday, March 18

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: rock, luck, sack, stick

 Segment: pick, duck, slick, black
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes: ff, f, ll, l, ss, zz, z, s, z, u, e, i, o, a

Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: u, e, i, o, a, f (f, ff), l (l, ll), s (s, ss), z (z, zz)

Blending Drill  

all to ball to bull to pull to full to fall to mall to small to stall to  

tall to toll to troll to stroll to troll to trolls to rolls to polls 

 New Concept 

   The grapheme CK spells /k/

KinderLiteracy: Rabbits

The kids will listen to Rabbits by Anita Ganeri to build an interest in the topic for this week: Rabbits

Writing Activity: Adopt a Peep

Your child will choose a Peep to take care of this week. Today's task is to write their Peep's name, how old it is, if it is a boy/girl, and what it likes to do. Literacy Jobs 

Math: Add with Objects
We begin a new unit today called Addition Word Problems. The kids will work with snap cubes to solve simple word problems: "I had 3 pencils and 2 crayons. How many in all?" "I had 2 chairs and 6 more chairs. How many chairs in all?", etc.

Phy Ed  

~The book order is due Wednesday. Scholastic Book Order