Friday, January 17

 

Friday, January 17
Happy 1/2 Birthday Ben (July 10)

 Handwriting: Number 9
 
Literacy Jobs

Project: Polar Bear

KinderMath: Constructing Solid Shapes 

 Using a cube, sphere, cylinder and cone, the kids will help determine and talk about which shapes will roll, stack, and slide. I will point out how the cylinder and cone can only slide on their flat side which we call the face. Lastly, they will explore which shapes are able to stack and why a cone can only be placed on a stack with nothing on top of it. 

 We are going shopping at the Irish Pride Store this afternoon. Your child has the choice to spend their tickets or save them for a bigger item.

 Phy Ed Today 

~Friendly reminder to keep having your child do their UFLI homework. I recently reminded them that I will have something that flies to give them at the end of the school year! :)

Stay warm this weekend!

Thursday, January 16

 
  Thursday, January 16

                  

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 

(Deleting, adding, or changing ONE letter to make a new word.)
web to wed to fed to led to let to wet to west to went to dent to den to ten to tin

 to win to twin to twig

 Irregular Words: from, look, book, are

Read: The twig got wet.
               Did Brad swim fast?
                     Ken and Ben are twins.

Spell: The web got wet.
              The wind lifts it up.

                 Glen said he can win!

 Handwriting: Number 8

KinderLiteracy: Polar Bears
The kids will be involved in a discussion on the vocabulary questions seen in the photo below.

Literacy Jobs

KinderMath: Comparing Solid Shapes

We will read Jack the Builder by Stuart Murphy and focus on the solid figures and their attributes, like their shape, size, roundness, & corners. After the read aloud, we will create a solid shapes poster like the one pictured below.

Next, we will play “Get in the Shape.” For this activity, students will pretend like they are “stuffed” in the shape. For example, they will pretend to get into a cylinder...How do the walls feel? What does the top feel like? What shape are you standing on? {circle bottom} We will continue with the remaining solid shapes.   

Zero the Hero visits today...Day 80!

Music Today

Pushes & Pulls: How Can You Knock Down the Most Bowling Pins
In this Read-Along lesson, Daniel worries he won’t do well at a friend’s Bumper Bowling party…until he figures out an unexpected way to win. The lesson includes a short exercise where students act out bumper bowling.
We didn't get to this yesterday!

Students in the high school drama class wrote a play and will be performing it for us at 2:10 today. 

~No extra news for today.

Wednesday, January 15

Wednesday, January 15

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: win, wag, went, twig
 Segment: wet, twin, west, swim
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes:  l, r, h, k, s (/s/, /z/), e, b, g, u, c, d, o, n, i, f, p, t, s, m, a
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes:  l, r, h, k (c, k), s (/s/, /z/), e, b, g, u

Blending Drill
lid to slid to sled to fled to pled to bled to led to red to bed to bet to belt to felt to felp to help to held
 New Concept 

Letter w

KinderLiteracy: Polar Bears
The kids will be involved in a discussion on the text-dependent questions seen in the photo below.

Literacy Jobs

Pushes & Pulls: How Can You Knock Down the Most Bowling Pins
In this Read-Along lesson, Daniel worries he won’t do well at a friend’s Bumper Bowling party…until he figures out an unexpected way to win. The lesson includes a short exercise where students act out bowling. If you want to extend the lesson, you can try this optional activity, Human Bumper Bowling, where students make a model bumper bowling alley and work together to knock down pins.

Library Today
Computer Class Today

Math: Solid Shapes 

We begin a new unit on 2D & 3D shapes today. 

We will read the book Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres by Tana Hoban and take time discuss the pages that illustrate solid shapes {cones, cylinders, cubes, and spheres}. It is important to identify the shapes by their name and use the words “3D” and “solid” interchangeably.

I will show the kids a party hat, ball, soup can, and box and describe their attributes by using vocabulary like: flat, curvy, point, roll, slide, stack.

The children will explore freely with solid shapes for the remainder of math time. Phy Ed Today 

~The book order is due today.
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Tuesday, January 14

 
  Tuesday, January 14

Late Start!

                  

Word Work
(Deleting, adding, or changing ONE letter to make a new word.)
lab to lag to lad to lap to led to laps to lips to lip to lid to lit to let to led

to leg to lug 

 Irregular Words: he, be, me, from, look, book
 NEW: are
Read: The frog can flip!
                   The pals are in a club.
                         Did Cal plug the lamp in?

Spell: Sal and I are glad.
            I can plan the trip.

            Glen has a pet slug.

 Handwriting: Number 7

Literacy Jobs
KinderLiteracy: Polar Bears

Recall questions:
What does the author do compared to the illustrator? 
What type of book is this? (fiction/nonfiction)
What is one fact we heard from the book? 
Clarifying vocabulary words...(Arctic, cub, den, float, snatch).

 Writer's Workshop: Draw and Label Yourself
The kids will have fun with this lesson since they will be drawing and labeling themselves.

  Irish Pride Celebration Today at 10:20

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

~The book order is due tomorrow.

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Monday, January 13

 

Monday, January 13

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: flag, slug, flip, clap
 Segment: club, glad, plug, flat
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes:  l, r, h, k, s (/s/, /z/), e, b, g, u, c, d, o, n, i, f, p, t, m, a
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes:  l, r, h, k (c, k), s (/s/, /z/), e, b, g, u

Blending Drill
let to left to loft to lift to lit to kit to hit to hip to rip to lip to limp to lamp to lap to lad to land to lend 
 New Concept  

                                Letter L: As the second sound in a word.)

KinderLiteracy: Polar Bears

Polar Bears by: Katie Marsico is the focus book for the week. The comprehension strategy the kids work on this week is Questioning/Connections.
Literacy Jobs

         KinderMath: About 19
We have worked hard to know that teen numbers are made up of a group of 10 and some more. Today we finish up our work with teen numbers.

Pushes & Pulls: How Can you Knock Down a Wall Made of Concrete?
In this lesson, students change the strength and direction of a wrecking ball’s push in order to solve a tricky problem. The activity, Don't Crush That House, is a game in which students experiment with the force of a paper wrecking ball in order to knock down a wall of cups. The challenge is: they can’t knock down the paper houses!

 Phy Ed Today 

~The book order is due Wednesday. There will be a book order flyer in your child's folder today.
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~ Late start is tomorrow...have your child wear their Irish Pride shirt.