Thursday, May 1

   
 Thursday, April 24

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...

 Writer's Workshop: Let's Celebrate!
Today we will celebrate all the hard work your child put into the narrative story they created. They will read their story to a few friends, decorate a crown, and have a dance party with a disco ball! Their story will come home for you to enjoy!

 Literacy Jobs 
Math: Subtract with a Picture
Today’s lesson will start by reviewing the two previous subtraction strategies we learned: subtracting with fingers and with objects. The kids will work with 10 snap cubes and 1 ten frame to solve problems like this:
There were 8 horses at the farm. Put 8 snap cubes down on your ten frame. 2 horses ran away. Take away 2 snap cubes. How many horses are left?  Next, they will use their fingers to solve problems like this:
There were 10 goats in the pasture. Show me your 10 goats. 6 goats left the pasture. Take away 6 fingers. How many goats are left? Lastly, the kids will use the strategy of drawing pictures to solve subtraction problems like this:
  There were 8 ducks in the pond. 6 ducks flew away. How can I show my ducks flying away? I am going to cross them out. Now, how many ducks are left? I am going to circle the ducks that are left so I can easily see that 2 are left. The kids will illustrate the problem using circles and crossing out the 'take away' part.
Music Today

Project: Happy May Day!
The kids will be making a May Day basket to bring home today. 

                                                                   

~ Have your child wear their new Irish Acres playground shirt tomorrow or something green if you didn't purchase one. We are taking a photo on the playground right away in the morning.

Wednesday, April 30

Wednesday, April 30

 

 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  

 Writer's Workshop: Edit Sentences 
We are close to publishing our very first book as writers as this will be our last day of 
editing/revising our book. Today I will teach the children that good writers reread their sentences to make sure they have a capital letter, finger spaces, punctuation and that their words are in a straight line. They will use the Writer's Checklist (see photo) to check their work.

    Library Today

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.       

   Phy Ed Today  

Computer Class Today

~Class picture day is tomorrow.

~In case you don't receive a May lunch menu in today's Wednesday envelope, these are the options for Thursday and Friday:

Thursday (5/1)

Breakfast:  Whole Grain Donut Ring

                   Cereal Choice: Lucky Charms, Honey Nut Cheerios

                   String Cheese

                   Fresh Apple

Lunch:  Main Entree: Hot Ham and Cheese

                                  Chicken Patty Sandwich

             Newton Meal:  Blueberry Muffin

                                     String Cheest

                                     Trix Raspberry Rainbow Yogurt

Friday (5/2)

Breakfast:  Blueberry Waffles/Syrup

                  Cereal Choice:  Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms

                  String Cheese

                  Fresh Orange

Lunch:  Main Entree:  Cheese Pizza

                                   Chicken Patty Sandwich

               Newton Meal:  Blueberry Muffin

                                       String Cheese

                                      Trix Raspberry Rainbow Yogurt

Tuesday, April 29

  
 Tuesday, April 29

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

ink to pink to sink to think to thin to tin to tan to tank to thank to sank to bank  

to blank to plank to plunk to punk to sunk to junk to hunk to bunk 

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

    Read: There are things in the trunk.

   There is a lot of junk in the tank.

           Where is Frank? I have to thank him!  

Spell: The skunk stinks!

                       Where do you think it is?

                          There is a dish in the sink. 

    

KinderLiteracy: Storms

We will focus these vocabulary words within the story (weather, crystal, electricity, funnel) and answer these questions:

1) Who is the author? What is their job compared to the illustrator?
2) What is one fact we heard from the book?

 Writer's Workshop: Edit Pictures

The children are going to edit/revise any pictures and labels throughout their story they have been working on.

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Unknown Subtraction Stories

We will work on the difference in unknown problems. The kids will show the problem using cubes and write the problem statement. The following is an example of the problems they will work on.
My teacher has 10 flowers and my principal has 7 flowers. How many fewer flowers does my principal have than my teacher? 
It's important the kids are confident in stating how many fewer there are. Again, this can be very difficult for the kids as they are most confident with more.

In this lesson, students observe and describe the weather, paying attention to the sun, the temperature, the wind, and precipitation. In the activity, Be a Weather Watcher, students observe and draw the weather around them.

Music Today 

                                                                   

~Field trip permission forms/money are due tomorrow. 

~Class picture day is Thursday.

Monday, April 28

 Monday, April 28

 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 
(Completely coincidental that this is our topic for the week!)

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. 
 Writer's Workshop: Narrative Checklist

Today, I am going to teach the kids to use the Narrative Checklist to make sure their story has all of the following components. (see picture)

Handwriting: Upper/Lowercase U & Sentence/Punctuation

Math: Subtraction Stories

We will work on more subtraction stories within 10 today. On Friday, the kids used a farm scene to lay the cubes on. Today, they have a pond scene with frogs to use for solving the story problems.   

   Phy Ed Today  

               ~The front of our school looks so good now!

~We enjoyed celebrating with Vera on Friday!

~Field trip permission forms/money are due Wednesday. 
~Class picture day is Thursday.