Friday, March 6

 
Friday, March 6
White Day (No computer class or library.)
Dr. Seuss Week!
Featured Book...

Project: The children will design their own socks!

 Irish Pride Celebration Today at 8:30
 Students of the month for February will be recognized as well as new students to our school. The new character word for the month will be introduced: acceptance. We will end the celebration by singing our Irish Pride song.

Read Aloud: Take Me Out to the Yakyu By: Aaron Meshon

Genre: Fiction
Connect and Teach: Author's Purpose

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Long Vowels a and o

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Review Complete Sentences

Genre: Song Social Studies Connection: History and Symbols This well-known song about America’s favorite pastime is sung at almost every baseball game in the United States! Written more than one hundred years ago, it still evokes the excitement of going to a game. Connect and Teach: Song

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Review of C Stroke Letters
  KinderMath: Combining Sets up to 20
Again, we will be focusing on combining sets but this time to 20. Again, this is not a "true" addition lesson, but rather getting the kids to become confident in combining two sets of objects for a total or "in all". It's important to teach them the reason behind counting on. For example 7 bears and 8 apples. How many in all? *Count on from 7...*7*, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

 Phy Ed Today
~Most of the kids enjoyed the green eggs and ham...

The Book order is due Wednesday, March 11.
Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC
Have a nice weekend!  

Thursday, March 5

 
Thursday, March 5
Black Day (No computer class or library.)
Dr. Seuss Week!
Featured Book...

 We are making real green eggs and ham this afternoon! 

 Project: Things 1 & 2

Read Aloud: Take Me Out to the Yakyu By: Aaron Meshon

Genre: Fiction

Power Words: anthem, cheer, team

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Long Vowel u

Irregular Words: Review

 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Review Complete Sentences  Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Ss
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
~Any tickets/gift certificate/treats you can donate toward the PTA Baskets of Chance fundraiser is greatly appreciated. Thank you to those of you who have donated so far!
~Have your child wear crazy socks tomorrow and their Irish Pride shirt for our Irish Pride celebration.

The Book order is due Wednesday, March 11.
Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC

Wednesday, March 4

 
Wednesday, March 4

Green Day: Library 
Dr. Seuss Week!
Featured Book...

~Wacky hair and wacky wear day!
Some wacky things will be happening around here including but not limited to...
~Our names start ing with 'W' all day long.
~Walking backwards in the classroom and hall.
~Our daily routine happening out of order.
~Sitting on a chair backwards.
~Taping your worksheet to the bottom of a table and work from the 'ceiling'
~Reading a story from end to beginning.
~Getting to do their paperwork wacky all day long!

Read Aloud: Take Me Out to the Yakyu By: Aaron Meshon
Social Studies Connection: History and Symbols Baseball is a cherished tradition in America. It’s popular in Japan too. This delightful story shows how going to a ball game in the two countries is the same and how it’s fascinatingly different.

Genre: Fiction
Connect and Teach: Make and Check Predictions

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Long Vowel u

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Review Complete Sentences

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Gg
  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.

Zero the Hero visits today...Day 110! 

Time for Kids: Growing Tall

 Phy Ed Today
~Wear green tomorrow!

The Book order is due Wednesday, March 11.
Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC
~Dr. Seuss dress up days...

Tuesday, March 3

 
Tuesday, March 3
Orange Day: Technology
Technology class at 8:20.   
Dr. Seuss Week!
Featured Book...

Wear a crazy hat and/or red & white day!
 Project: The Cat in the Hat

Big Book: In Our Country  By: Susan Canizares

Genre: Informational Text

Review Power Words: America, plain, sea Review Big Idea Words: belong, country, right

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset and Rime (n-eat, t-ate)
Isolating Phonemes (medial), Blending/Segmenting Phonemes
 Substituting Phonemes (quote: change /long oō/ to /short iĭ/: quit ) WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Review Irregular Plural Nouns  Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Qq
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
~Mrs. Tongen will not be in school today but The Cat in the Hat will be...hehe...
~Any tickets/gift certificate/treats you can donate toward the PTA Baskets of Chance fundraiser is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
~Wacky Wednesday tomorrow! Have your child dress in any wacky way...including their hair!
~Library day tomorrow...
~Dr. Seuss dress up days...