Friday, May 30

    

Friday, May 30
Happy Birthday, Simon! 

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
mice to rice to race to pace to page to wage to cage to age to sage to 
stage 

 Irregular Words: who, by, my,  one, once  
  Read: Did Bruce like the rice?
                         The mice in that cage are huge.
                                         The stage is a place where Grace shines!
Spell: Do not change a thing.
                     Those kids are twice my age!
                       There is no space on the page.

 
Handwriting: Upper/Lowercase Letters Review
 (We did not get to this yesterday.)

Literacy Jobs 

Math: The Quarter

First, the kids hear a story and view a short clip on YouTube about the quarter. Next, they will sing a few songs about it and finally, explore a real quarter closely. 

    Project: Pony

Phy Ed Today

~We enjoyed celebrating Bennett's birthday!

Have a wonderful weekend! I can hardly wrap my head around the fact that there are only four days left! 

Thursday, May 29

   

 Thursday, May 29

Happy Birthday, Bennett! 

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: age, wage, rage, stage
 Segment: page, huge, cage, sage
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: u (short, long) e (short, long), o (short, long), i (short, long), a (short, long) nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, s (s, z) 
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: u (long), e (long), o (long), a (long), i (long), nk, ng, ch, th, sh, s (s, ss, c)
Blending Drill 
lace to lice to slice to spice to spine to spin to spun to spunk to punk to pun to pin to ping to wing to win to twin to twine to twice
New Concept    
The grapheme G spells /j/ when followed by E.

KinderLiteracy: Ponies

The kids will answer text-dependent questions about ponies. See the picture below...

 

Handwriting: Upper/Lowercase Letters Review

 Literacy Jobs 
Math: The Dime
First, the kids hear a story and view a short clip on YouTube about the dime. Next, they will sing a few songs about it and finally, explore a real dime closely. This same routine has been done for the penny and nickel too.

Music Today

~Be the Teacher lesson plans are due!
~A BIG thank you to Austin's family for letting us experience the baby chicks yesterday!

Wednesday, May 28

  

Wednesday, May 28

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
ice to lice to lace to place to pace to face to race to rice to price 

 Irregular Words: who, by, my, one, once
    Read: I use a plate for my rice.
                           Do you want ice for your drink?
                                              What is the price for this nice dress?
Spell: There is no space there.
               Dave kept a fast pace in the race.
            Where did they place your brace?

KinderLiteracy: Ponies

We'll discuss these vocabulary words (breed, mare, herd, shelter, tame, wild) 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 
Computer Class Today
Math: The Nickel
We will focus on the nickel today.
Naming the coins and telling their value can be tricky for some kids. Keep exposing your kids to coins so they learn their names and values!

The preschoolers from a different section are visiting our classroom at 1:15 this afternoon. Again, our agenda will be:
~Read Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes and have them make Pete the Cat and color his shoes.
~Answer questions about kindergarten.
~Explore the classroom.
~Receive a crown to take home. 

Phy Ed Today   
(Yesterday was music.)

~The Be the Teacher plan is due tomorrow!

Tuesday, May 27

 

Tuesday, May 27

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: ice, race, face, space
 Segment: pace, brace, price, grace
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: u, (long, short, yu), e (short, long), o (short, long), i (short, long), a (short, long) nk, ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, s (s, z) 
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: u (long), u (yu), e (long), o (long), a (long), i (long), nk, ng, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh

Blending Drill 

tune to dune to dude to dud to mud to mad to made to mane to mine to fine to file to rile to rule to mule to muse to ruse to rose to those to these
New Concept    
The grapheme C spells /s/ when followed by E.

KinderLiteracy: Ponies

The kids will listen to Ponies by Laura Marsh to build an interest in the topic for this week: Ponies

The comprehension strategy this week is Questioning.

KinderWriting: Track & Field Day 

The kids will write about their little taste of Track & Field Day.

  Literacy Jobs 
Math: The Penny

We begin focusing on coins with the penny today. Naming the coins and telling their value can be tricky for some kids. Keep exposing your kids to coins so they learn their names and values. (penny, nickel, dime, quarter) 

The kids will enjoy this coin song during our money unit! 

Phy Ed Today   

~Track & Field Day was so fun!

~We did it! We screamed, we ran and we didn't get caught!