Friday, February 23

 
Friday, February 23

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 

flag to flat to flap to slap to slip to slit to skit to kit to lit to lot to slot to spot

to pot to pod to pond to bond to band to land to hand

 Irregular Words: the, I, a, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from

    Read: A frog hops to the pond.
                  He got to band camp at six.
                        Can you get the list from Stan?

Spell: Is it the last stop?
                  He skips to get the flag.
                     The kids swim on the trip.

 KinderMath: Combining Sets up to 10
(We did not get to this yesterday.)
This lesson builds the foundation of combining sets (addition). We won't be using any addition symbols in this lesson but the kids will be working together to combine simple sets. 
EX: 3 bears and 4 apples make 7 in all...5 bears and 3 blocks make 8 in all.

                                     

Computer Class    
Phy Ed 
Spanish Class...Last Day! The plan for today is to review the ABC's, colors, numbers 1-10, and days of the week.

Projects: George & Abe and The White House

~ We are going to the beach-themed room from 12:00-12:30 today.
~Thank you to Mrs. Schmidt (1st grade teacher) for reading to us yesterday...

~We enjoyed celebrating with Kash'Lee yesterday...

Have a great weekend everyone!    

Thursday, February 22

 
Thursday, February 22
         Happy Birthday Kash'Lee!

 

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: last, skip, stop, kids
 Segment: fast, twin, pond, spot
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes: m, s (/s/, /z/), t, p, f, n, d, c, g, b, k, h, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: k, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z 

Blending Drill 

at to sat to sad to mad to mat to cat to cap to map to sap to nap to tap to tad 

 New Concept 

           Short A/I/O practice with consonant clusters.

KinderLiteracy: Presidents
We will be rereading parts of the book to answer some text-dependent questions as seen in the photo below.

Literacy Jobs   

 KinderMath: Combining Sets up to 10

This lesson builds the foundation of combining sets (addition). We won't be using any addition symbols in this lesson but the kids will be working together to combine simple sets. 
EX: 3 bears and 4 apples make 7 in all...5 bears and 3 blocks make 8 in all.

               Music Today   

Spanish Class

ABC & colors review, introduction to days of the week.

In this Read-Along lesson, Desiree notices all the holes in the trees around her house and sets out to discover how they got there, and why they matter. The lesson includes a short exercise where students listen for animal sounds and pretend to be woodpeckers. 

  ~Thank you to Mrs. Schneider (2nd grade teacher) for reading to us yesterday...

~ Read chapter 13 in Nim's Island tonight and initial the choice board. ~Have your child wear a team jersey or sports shirt tomorrow. ~I hope to see you at Bingo Fun Night this evening!

Wednesday, February 21

Wednesday, February 21

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
lot to plot to pot to spot to pots to pods to rods to rod to rop to crop to drop to drip

to grip to rip to rap to ram to Sam to swam

 Irregular Words: he, be, me, from
    Read: He lost the prop.
                   Mom got me a spot.
                             The frog is from the pond.
Spell: He did not stop.
             Bob got me a job.
                      The dog has a big spot.

 Literacy Jobs 

 KinderLiteracy: Presidents
We will focus on the vocabulary words (law, military, countries, speech, White House, Oval Office, West Wing) within the story, The Story of the Whitehouse by Marge Kennedy 

  KinderMath: Find Differences of Sets to 20 
In today’s lesson, the kids will be working on stating how many the difference between two sets of 20 is. For this activity, each pair will need two baggies of items-each filled with a different number of items. We will model dumping out a bag of bears and a bag of tiles where the tiles can be “matched” to the bears. We will demonstrate lining them up and determining how many FEWER is seen of one set. This will be modeled 2-3 more times and then the partners will do the same, but record their answers on the recording sheet as shown below.

 

Library Day!
Phy Ed 

Time for Kids: A President's Day

 Social Studies: Abraham Lincoln

The kids will be introduced to Abraham Lincoln and a little bit about his life.

Spanish Class

The high school students are with us from 9:15-9:45 each morning this week. Today, they will review each child's Spanish name and introduce the color names.

   

~We enjoyed having Lori (Olivia's aunt) read to us yesterday...

 

~Does anyone have a clean, hard-sided kiddie pool we could borrow for our I Love to Read month finale on March 1? 

~Read ch. 12 in Nim's Island and initial the choice board.

Tuesday, February 20

Tuesday, February 20

 

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: lot, mops, lost, spot
 Segment: dog, jogs, pond, stop
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes: i, a, m, s (/s/, /z/), t, p, f, n, d, c, g, b, k, h, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: i, a, k, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z 

Blending Drill 

sip to sit to fit to fits to fins to fin to tin to tip to nip to snip to skip to skin to skim to skit to skid to kid

 New Concept 

           Short O practice in words with consonant clusters.

KinderLiteracy: Presidents
The kids will hear The Story of the Whitehouse by Marge Kennedy for the topic of this week: Presidents Day.
They will also view A President's Job.

The comprehension strategy: Connections.

Literacy Jobs   

Our Literacy Jobs contain new activities that support CVC words, sight words, stretching out words and more! 

 KinderMath: Find Differences of Sets to 10
In today’s lesson, the kids will be going further than simply comparing two sets as more or less. They will be working on stating how many the difference between two sets is. For this activity, each pair will need two sets of number cards 1-10 and 20 snap cubes. Each partner will pull a card and build that amount of cubes. Students will then “make friends” with their cubes so they can easily see how many more/fewer. Again, the kids will focus on stating the amount that the difference is.

               Music Today   

Spanish Class

All this week students from the high school Spanish class will be coming to our room. They have prepared a Spanish name for each of the kids and will call them by that name when they are here. Today, the students plan to do activities with numbers and colors. 

  Social Studies: George Washington
The kiddos will be introduced to our first president and a little bit about his life. 
~We enjoyed celebrating Jackson's birthday last Friday...

~Thank you to Diana (Olivia's mom) for reading to us on Friday as well...

~ Read chapter 11 in Nim's Island tonight and initial the choice board.

~Thanks in advance for ANY donations of games for the Baskets of Chance for Bingo Fun Night this Thursday!
~Bring a beach towel tomorrow.