Monday, April 20

 Monday, April 20

Gold Day (No computer class or library.)

Big Book: Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzees By: Betsey Chessen 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 ng

Irregular Words: what
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Strong Adjectives and Verbs

 Handwriting: Down the Slide Letters Review: V, W, X, Y

Workshop: Draw & Label the Last Page
The kids are going to draw and label the last page of their "how to book". This page begins with the transitional word Last.

We Love our Earth!

The children will meet Mother Earth today. She is here all week to help the children learn ways to care for our earth. The kids will make their own Mother Earth puppet today.

 Literacy Jobs 
Math: Subtract with a Picture
Today’s lesson will start by reviewing the two previous subtraction strategies we learned: subtracting with fingers and with objects. The kids will work with 10 snap cubes and 1 ten frame to solve problems like this:
There were 8 horses at the farm. Put 8 snap cubes down on your ten frame. 2 horses ran away. Take away 2 snap cubes. How many horses are left?  Next, they will use their fingers to solve problems like this:
There were 10 goats in the pasture. Show me your 10 goats. 6 goats left the pasture. Take away 6 fingers. How many goats are left? Lastly, the kids will use the strategy of drawing pictures to solve subtraction problems like this: There were 8 ducks in the pond. 6 ducks flew away. How can I show my ducks flying away? I am going to cross them out. Now, how many ducks are left? I am going to circle the ducks that are left so I can easily see that 2 are left. The kids will illustrate the problem using circles and crossing out the 'take away' part.    

        Phy Ed Today  

~ If you have any spare crew socks (with holes) laying around. We'll take them! We plan to make sock puppets later this week. 😀

Friday, April 17

           

Friday, April 17
White Day (No computer class or library.)

Big Book: Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzee By: Betsey Chessen Genre: Informational Text

Read Aloud: Me...Jane By: Robin Bernard
Genre: Fiction

Connect and Teach: Describe Connections

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Substituting Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ng

Irregular Word: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Strong Adjectives and Verbs

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: Down the Slide Uppercase Letter Y
(Down the Slide Letters: V, W, X, Y)
Writer's Workshop: Draw & Label 3rd Page
The kids are going to draw and label the third page of their "how to book". This page begins with the transitional word Then.

Math: Subtraction with Fingers
Fingers are very useful at a young age to see an abstract concept such as subtraction become a concrete visual for 'taking away'. The kids will be practicing a variety of subtraction statements such as this:
There are 4 apples in the apple tree (put up 4 fingers) 2 apples fall off the tree. (take down two fingers) How many are left? 4 apples take away 2 apples is 2.
They will also learn another finger technique called 'Touch and Count Back’. Let’s say there were 7 birds in the tree and 3 birds flew away. I’m going to touch my head to keep 7 in my brain and count back 3 using three fingers. 7 (touch head)…6, 5, 4 (counting using your three fingers to hold a place for each bird that flew away). 
7 take away 3 is 4.
I have 5 shirts and 2 get dirty. How many are clean? I will put 5 in my brain and then count back 2!  5….4, 3 (holding up one finger for each dirty shirt). 3 shirts are clean.” This concept can be very difficult for some and will take lots of modeling. 

 Project: It's Raining Place Value 

Music Today  

~ We enjoyed celebrating with Lenna yesterday!

Have a great weekend!  

Thursday, April 16

Thursday, April 16

Read Aloud: Me...Jane By: Robin Bernard Genre: Biography Connect and Tach: Properties of Objects Introduce Power Words: curious, observe, study

Connect and Teach: Biography

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, Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph wh

Irregular Word: what
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Strong Adjectives and Verbs

Writer's Workshop: Draw & Label 2nd Page

The kids are going to draw and label the second page of their "how to book". This page begins with the transitional word Next.

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Subtraction with Objects

It's time to move onto subtraction! For these beginning lessons, the kids will be introduced to strategies that will help them in solving subtraction problems. However, the symbols {- and =} are not introduced quite yet. For this introductory lesson the kids will use 5 snap cubes and a five frame to manipulate 'taking away' from the poem “5 Little Ducks.”

    Phy Ed Today  
We will participate in the statewide tornado drill at 1:45.

~ Wear blue tomorrow for Autism awareness.

Wednesday, April 15

Wednesday, April 15
Happy Birthday, Lenna!

Green Day: Library 

Read Aloud: Me...Jane By: Robin Bernard Genre: Biography Science Connection: Properties of Objects Through this biography, children learn about the early life of Jane Goodall,

her inquisitive nature, her curiosity, and her powers of

observation as she studies the world and the objects in it. Connect and Teach: Biography

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 Onset and Rime, Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph wh

Irregular Word: what
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Strong Adjectives and Verbs

 Handwriting: Down the Slide Uppercase Letter X
(Down the Slide Letters: V, W, X, Y)

Writer's Workshop: Labeling

The kids will begin working on the first page of their "how to" book by drawing the first step from their rough draft and adding additional labels to their illustration. This makes it more interesting for the reader!

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Addition Sums to 10

Today’s lesson is all about having FUN with addition! In our read aloud, Domino Addition by Lynette Long, we will look at presenting addition in a horizontal and vertical format. The kids will choose their own items to work with in order to solve the addition problems.

Time for Kids: Fresh Baked

Music Today  

The book order is due by 8pm tonight.

Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC

~ Field trip permission forms and money are due today.

Tuesday, April 14

Tuesday, April 14
Orange Day: Technology
Technology class at 8:20.  

Read Aloud: I Know the River Loves Me  By: Maya Christina Gonzalaz
Genre: Fiction
Review Power Words: close, flow, visit

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: Isolating Phonemes (medial), Blending Onset and Rime (ch-eek, p-ick), Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes (cheek change /ch/ to /s/: seek)

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ck

Irregular Words: review

 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Conjunctions

 Handwriting: Down the Slide Uppercase Letter W
(Down the Slide Letters: V, W, X, Y)

Writer's Workshop: Front Cover
The front cover clearly tells the reader what the story will be about. It is important that the picture matches the title.
 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Solving for Unknown
In today’s lesson we will continue working on addition story problems. However, we will be focusing on solving for the unknown addend in word problems. The kids will be using a number bond board to solve for the unknown and will have to listen carefully when completing these type of problems as listed below. 
~There were 7 cats at the door. Some were brown and some were black, 3 of the cats were brown. How many were black? 
~There were 8 balloons. Some were red and some where blue. 5 were red. How many were blue? 

~There were 10 frogs at the pond. Some were in the water and some were on the log. 7 were on the log. How many were in the water?

    Phy Ed Today  

The book order of the year is due tomorrow.

Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC

~ Tomorrow is library day.
~ Field trip permission forms and money are due tomorrow!