Monday, April 13

Monday, April 13

Gold Day (No computer class or library.)

STEM class with Mr. Brown today.

Big Book: Look-Alike Animals By: Robin Bernard Genre: Informational Text Print Concepts: End Punctuation

Social Studies Connection: Perseverance

In this fiction text, children meet a young girl named Mei Mei and her grandpa, Gong Gong. Gong Gong teaches Mei Mei how to do tai chi, and she works hard to figure out the complex hand, arm, and leg movements. Mei Mei teaches Gong Gong how to do yoga, and he works hard to learn the different poses. Even though they both struggle to learn new things, they persevere.

Social Studies Connection: Perseverance

In this fiction text, children meet a young girl named Mei Mei and her grandpa, Gong Gong. Gong Gong teaches Mei Mei how to do tai chi, and she works hard to figure out the complex hand, arm, and leg movements. Mei Mei teaches Gong Gong how to do yoga, and he works hard to learn the different poses. Even though they both struggle to  

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ck

Irregular Words: review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Conjunctions

Writer's Workshop: Draft Sentences
Today the kids will begin adding sentences next to each picture they drew to explain the steps of their "how to" story.
 Literacy Jobs 
 Math: Writing Addition Stories
In this lesson, the kids will continue to work on writing addition word problems. To help launch today's lesson, we will read Mrs. McTats and Her House Full of Cats by: Alyssa Capacelli. The kids are going to write the addition problems we hear in the story. Addition word problems require a lot of listening comprehension skills. These skills will, at times, need more practice than the addition equation itself.
Music Today  

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