Monday, May 5

 Monday, May 5

 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: Frogs
The comprehension strategy this week is Retell.

 Literacy Jobs 

Handwriting: Upper/Lowercase A & Words that rhyme with dice.

 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.

In this lesson, the kids make observations of plants in order to identify their needs and that they are, in fact, living things. In the activity, Plant Dance, the kids will engage in a kinesthetic activity in which they observe and then model the appearance of plants when their needs are and aren’t met.

Music Today

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