Tuesday, January 20

  
Tuesday, January 20
White Day (No computer class, library or Character Education.)

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: Martin Luther King, Jr. By: Nancy Carlson

GENRE: Biography
Introduce Power Words: believe, refuse, law

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Short vowel e
Irregular Words: See

WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Irregular Plural Nouns (men, mice, fish, etc.)

 Handwriting: Number 6
Literacy Jobs

Story: Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. By: Doreen Rappaport
At the conclusion of the story, the children will complete a dot-to-dot picture of him.

These are the songs we are singing this week:
We Will Rise Up
Sing about Martin 

 KinderMath: Taking a Closer Look at Square and Rectangle   

Today we will focus on rectangles and squares in the story, Circus Shapes by Stuart Murphy. After focusing on the attributes of rectangles and squares, the kids will look closely at the faces of the solid shapes and notice the circle base of the cylinder, cone, and square base of a cube. They will have time to explore finding the flat shapes within the solid shapes. Lastly, the kids will lay their solid shapes flat and then trace around them. Once they lift up the solid shape, they will discover a flat shape. 

Music Today 

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