Monday, May 4

Monday, May 4 

White Day (No computer class or library.) 

Happy Birthday, Davis! 

 

 Irish Pride Celebration Today at 8:30 

 Students of the month for April will be recognized as well as new students to our school. The new character word for the month will be introduced: courage. We will end the celebration by singing our Irish Pride song.  

Big Book: Plants Feed Me By: Lizzy Rockwell Genre: Informational Text

Connect and Teach: Steps in a Sequence

  

Big Book: Planting Seeds  By: Kathryn Clay 

Connect and Teach: Make and Check Predictions  

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Initial l-Blends

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Pronouns

 Literacy Jobs 

 

Buddy Reading: Students from Mrs. Sutter's Creative Writing class from the high school made children's books and will be visiting our classroom today and tomorrow to read the story they wrote and illustrated.

 KinderMath: Sort by an Unknown Rule

We will look closer at how things can be sorted by more than one rule and "unknown" attributes. For instance, without telling the kids what the rule is (wearing shoe laces or not), I will put them in two groups to see if they figure out what the rule is. We will do this same activity with animals that fly and those that don't. Sometimes things have more than one way it can be sorted so we'll use overlapping hula hoops (like the picture below) to demonstrate how it works. For instance, if we want to sort blocks that are red into one group and triangles in another, we might find a block that is red AND a triangle. What do we do?

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

~ If you haven't done so, please sign and return the Track & Field Day form.
~ An important list of details will be in your child's folder today regarding our field trip on Wednesday.