Monday, April 22

 Monday, April 22

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: honk, chunk, gunk, stunk
 Segment: bunk, junk, dunk, skunk
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, z, s (s, z) u, e, i, o, a
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: ng, w (w, wh) f (f, ff, ph) ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e, i, o, a, f, ff, l, ll, s, ss, z, z (s, z, zz)
BlendingDrill 
sang to slang to slung to stung to stun to shun to sun to sung to song to Kong to king to thing to thin to then to when
New Concept   
 The grapheme N spells /n/ when followed by k

    

KinderLiteracy: Storms

The kids will listen to Storms by Miriam Goin to build an interest in the topic for this week: Storms

The comprehension strategy this week is Connections.
 Literacy Jobs 
*New literacy work is now available for the kids. ZZ

Math: Subtracting One

Today, the kids will focus on subtracting one with the use of a vertical number line.

Using the Ten in a Bed poem, the kids will raise 10 fingers and subtract one-by-one to notice that the number is getting less by one each time. The goal is to have the kids continue to notice the connection between less and subtraction. We will continue to use the vertical number line to demonstrate a subtraction problem like this: 

5 birds were in a tree. 3 birds flew away. How many birds are left? We will find the number 5 and swoop down 3 spots to see there are 2 birds left.   

Thunderstorm in a Cup
The kids will love this experiment!

Fill a cup half full of water to represent the sky then add shaving cream on the water for clouds. Next, add a few drops of blue food coloring onto the top of the cloud to represent water droplets. As a cloud gets full and heavy the water starts to fall from the sky as rain. I'll simplify the concept of lightning by explaining the frozen water in the cloud bumps into each other and causes an electrical charge. That electrical charge can turn into lightning. We'll use bent paperclips to represent lightning in the cup.
 Music Today

~We enjoyed celebrating with Maverik on Friday!

~Field trip permission forms/money are due Wednesday, April 24.