Thursday, October 23

    

Thursday, October 23
White Day: (No library, technology, or character education.) 

READING AND VOCABULARY
Big Book: ABC I Like Me!  By: Nancy Carlson
Response to Text: Connect Reading and Writing

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Review Segmenting/Blending/Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Review Nn & Dd
Irregular Words: to, do
Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Corrections

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Prepositions

 Handwriting: C Stroke Review
After today, the strokes for all the letters and numbers have now been introduced. The next lesson will focus on specific letters that have the same strokes in common.

Writer's Workshop: Big Line
The kids will learn how to separate their paper with a big line to add more details for the setting. For instance, an illustration of ocean water and the sky is split into two parts: The top is the sky and the bottom is the water.

 KinderMath: All About Numbers 0-10

The kids will work on a couple of activities to continue number sense of any number 0-10. 
~Counting objects and writing the number.
~Identifying how many boxes are filled on a Ten-Frame and writing the corresponding number.

Music Today

~Their fine dining experience yesterday!

Wednesday, October 22

    

Wednesday, October 22
Black Day (Character Education) 

Mrs. Weninger will be here teach the children about the Unthinkables, Rock Brain and Topic Twister Meister 

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book: ABC I Like Me! By: Nancy Carlson

Genre: Alphabet Book

Print Concepts: Concept of a Word

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant d

Irregular Words: to, do

Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction

WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Prepositions

 Handwriting: C Stroke

Writer's Workshop: Character and Setting (Day 2)
The kids will draw a different character and setting for today's lesson. It's important to get multiple ideas drawn on paper for when the time comes to write words with their story.

KinderMath: All About Numbers 0-10

Based on the story, Ten Black Dots the children will create their own picture using up to 10 black dots.

Time for Kids: Speaking with Signs

Phy Ed Today

~Lunch will be in our classroom today! Thank you for having your child do the homework over fall break!

Tuesday, October 21

    

Tuesday, October 21
Green Day: Library  

Library from 8:20-8:55.

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: I Like Myself!  By: Karen Beaumont
Connect and Teach: Character Clues

Big Book: I Like Myself!  By: Nancy Carlson
Genre: Alphabet Book
Listening Comprehension

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant d
Irregular Words: to, do

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Prepositions

Writer's Workshop: Character and Setting 
For awhile now, the kids have been illustrating different people and objects. Today, they will put the two together as a "character and setting" into one illustration.

 Handwriting: Rainbow Curve Review
(We did not get to this yesterday.)

KinderMath: Read and Write 9-10

Partners will work on building sets of 9 and 10 using a 10-Frame and comparing with each other who has more/less. Next, the children will hear the story, Ten Black Dots and see how sets of 9 and 10 dots can be made into different things. The story will be used again tomorrow so the children can create their own picture using black dots.

Zero the Hero visits today for Day 30!

Music Today

~Have your child wear orange tomorrow.
~Picture retakes are tomorrow.
~ Lunch will be in our classroom tomorrow for homework done over break! Your child will still choose from the school menu or they can bring a cold lunch.

Monday, October 20

   

Monday, October 20
Orange Day: Technology  

Technology class at 8:20. 

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: I Like Myself!  By: Karen Beaumont
Connect and Teach: Check for Understanding
Introduce Vocabulary Words: bother, change, same

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Counting Syllables, Deleting Words

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant n
Irregular Words: to, do

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Prepositions

 Handwriting: Rainbow Curve Review

Kindermath: Read and Write 10
A number of activities will support the skills in today's lesson. The kids will roll a dot cube to fill in a 10-Frame, make cube towers of 10, and play the game, Guess My Number. In this game, each pair has a number path from 1-10. Partner A covers one number on the path while Partner B guesses which number is covered.

Phy Ed Today

STEM class with Mr. Brown today.

~We now have a bakery play center in our classroom!

~ Thank you for visiting with me at conferences...I enjoyed visiting with all of you and share your child's growth so far!
~Be sure to send your child's fall break homework in tomorrow if you didn't do so today. We are scheduled to have lunch in our classroom on Wednesday.
~ National Hot Lunch Day...