Wednesday, May 1

Wednesday, May 1

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: side, mile, size, shine
 Segment: dive, time, pile, dine
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: a (short, long) nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, s (s, z) u, e, i, o 
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: a (long), nk, ng, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e, i, o
BlendingDrill 
mad to made to fade to shade to shake to shape to shame to sham to Pam to pal to pale to tale to stale to sale to whale 
New Concept   
 Reading and spelling words with the I_E pattern.

KinderLiteracy: Frogs
Together, we will label the parts of a frog.

 Literacy Jobs 
Writer's Workshop: First
Today's focus is only on the "first" part of our story. It is important at the beginning that the character and setting is illustrated and the word first is written in the sentence.
 Library 
 Mrs. Thomas has a fun activity planned for the last visit to the library. 
**Please have library books back by this Friday!
Any class that has 100% returned by then is entered into a drawing for a donut party!

   Math: Survey and Graph

Today's lesson will have the kids continuing to graph and analyze data. However, today they will also learn how to survey their classmates by asking them what animal is their favorite from a group of four choices. After collecting the data, they will analyze the results.

The preschoolers are coming to experience a little bit of kindergarten life this morning! They will get to ask questions about kindergarten, hear a story, make a project, and explore our classroom.

Time for Kids: What is Pickleball?

Phy Ed Today

~Class picture day is tomorrow. We are scheduled for 9:10.
~Please RSVP for graduation by May 15.

Tuesday, April 30

Tuesday, April 30

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

cap to cape to came to tame to tape to tap to map to mat to mate to late to plate to slate to skate  

 Irregular Words: could, would, should, or, for, there, where  NEW: who

    Read: There are no waves in the lake.

   Nate and Blake should skate there.

        Who said they would be at the game?

Spell: The vase was on sale! 

                                             Where can we bake the cake?
                                             Kate has the same last name as Jane. 

KinderLiteracy: Frogs

We will focus these vocabulary words within the story (croak, gills, habitat,  poison) and answer these questions:

1) Who is the author? What is their job?

2) What is one fact we heard from the book?
Writer's Workshop: Oral Storytelling
 Writer's plan what they are going to write about on each page by orally saying out loud the words first, next, last. Using a story they are currently working on, the kids will share their story with a partner while touching the parts of the story.

Literacy Jobs 

Math: Sort and Analyze Data (Day 2)
We will sort which month our birthdays are in then find out which month has the most/least. How many more/less in one month vs. another, etc.
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Intro to Graphing

After hearing The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy, the kids will learn how to use a graph using these four steps: Pose a question, collect data, record the results on a graph, and analyze the data.
 Music Today

~Anyone who returns their library book tomorrow receives a sucker from Mrs. Thomas!

Monday, April 29

 Monday, April 29

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: made, same, lake, state
 Segment: bake, late, cake, came
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, s (s, z) u, e, i, o, a
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: nk, ng, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e, i, o, a
BlendingDrill 
string to strings to stings to sings to rings to ring to rink to shrink to shrunk to shrank to rank to rack to rash to thrash to thrush to rush
New Concept   
 Reading and spelling words with the A_E pattern.

KinderLiteracy: Frogs
The kids will listen to Frogs by Elizabeth Carney to build an interest in the topic for this week: FrogsThe comprehension strategy this week is Retell.

 Literacy Jobs 
Writer's Workshop: Feelings
 Today's lesson focuses on how to add feelings to their characters in a story.

 KinderMath: Sort and State Data

Using items from our classroom, the kids will sort them into categories and analyze the data. For example, the kids have a mixture of 8 bear counters, 5 crayons and 3 paperclips. First, they sort their mixture and place the items in vertical columns. Next, they write the total under each column. Last, the analyzing happens...
Which do we have more of? How do you know? How many more crayons are there than paperclips? And so on...
PE Today

~If you have small children, they are welcome to attend our graduation with you! 

Friday, April 26

   
   Friday, April 26
Writer's Workshop: Problem/Solution

 KinderMath: Sort by an Unknown Rule

We will look closer at how things can be sorted by more than one rule and "unknown" attributes. For instance, without telling the kids what the rule is (wearing shoe laces or not), I will put them in two groups to see if they figure out what the rule is. We will do this same activity with animals that fly and those that don't. Sometimes things have more than one way it can be sorted so we'll use overlapping hula hoops (like the picture below) to demonstrate how it works. For instance, if we want to sort blocks that are red into one group and triangles in another, we might find a block that is red AND a triangle. What do we do?

Computer class this afternoon.

 
Project #1: Paper Plate Earth

Project #2: Puffy Paint Thunderstorm

 Music Today

~Mr. Sawatzke is planning to come to school for a bit today. He will be in the lunchroom to say hi to all the students.

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, April 25

Thursday, April 25

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

string to sting to sing to ring to rink to shrink to shrank to shrunk to shrub to rub to rush to rash to rack to tack to stack 

 to stick

 Irregular Words: could, would, should, or, for , there, where  

    Read: I could not just shrug it off!

   Should I toss the scraps in the trash?

         Your pants should not have shrunk this much.

Spell: Where is this rash from?  

What a thrill it was to be there. 

Your cat should not be in the shrubs. 

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

Literacy Jobs 

 KinderMath: Sort and Classify

We begin a new unit on graphing data. To begin today's lesson on sorting, the kids will hear the story, Elmer by David McKee, to see how we could sort the elephants in the story. Next, they will find a couple of items in our classroom to bring back to the whole group for sorting by color. Lastly, they will sort and then glue colorful tissue paper squares on an elephant shape.

The kids will assemble an Earth Day Kid and write how they can help keep our earth healthy.

PE Today

~Thank you to Mrs. Kline's 3rd graders for reaching their Irish Pride ticket goal and choosing Pajama Day for tomorrow!
~Support Mr. Sawatzke's family by wearing a hat for $2.00 tomorrow. 

Wednesday, April 24

  
 Wednesday, April 24

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: shrug, thrill, splash, shrunk
 Segment: chunk, throb, shred, struck
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced), sh, ck, u, e, i, o, a, ff, ll, ss, zz
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: wh, ph, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced), sh, ck, u, e, i, o, a, ff, ll, ss, zz
BlendingDrill 
ban to band to bland to blend to bend to bent to best to bet to bat to bam to bump to
pump to plump to lump to limp

New Concept   
 Reading and spelling longer words with digraphs.

    
KinderLiteracy: Storms
The kids are answering these questions today...

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Differences to 10

In today's lesson we will continue to work on subtraction within 10. We will do a couple of activities to establish a solid foundation in subtraction. 

First, we will read The Action of Subtraction by Brian Cleary and stop to discuss the subtraction scenarios on each page. 
Next, the kids will play a game called Take it Away!
Each pair will need 10 counters,1 Take it Away mat, the take it away cards, and a small Dixie cup. Partners will take turns pulling a card and place that amount of counters on the ten frame, remove those being taking away, and write the number sentence. 
Quiz, Quiz! 

  For this activity each pair will need one set of Quiz, Quiz cards. Partner A will be the “teacher” as they quiz Partner B with the quiz cards. The partner being quizzed will be using their fingers to subtract. 

Library Day!

~We are heading to preschool this morning to read the stories from our book bins!Time for Kids: Helping the Planet

We Love our Earth!

The children will meet Mother Earth to help them learn ways to care for our earth. Today, the kids will make their own Mother Earth puppet.

 Music Today

~Our graduation invitation will be in the today's Wednesday!