Tuesday, February 3

     
Tuesday, February 3
Black Day (No computer class or library.)

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) By: Philemon Sturges
GENRE: Fiction

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Connect and Teach: Make Inferences
Academic Vocabulary: lovely, several, spy

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Syllables, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant v
Irregular Words: have, love

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Prepositions  Writer's Workshop: Writers Give Their Characters Feelings
Feelings may change for characters as a story progresses from the beginning to the middle and to the end. We will make sure the facial features match how the character is feeling.

 Handwriting: Number 14

Literacy Jobs
  KinderMath: Count By 5's Part 1
We will begin the lesson by reading Lots of Ladybugs by Michael Dahl to focus on counting by 5’s. It’s important that the kids know and understand that when we are counting by 5’s, we are simply skipping over given numbers to get to the final amount quickly. To help students understand, I will draw a horizontal number line with the 5, 10, 15, and 20 in an alternate color. For the next activity, each pair will need a baggie with 20 items and 4 blank five frames. They will work with their partner to place the items within the 5 frames until all five are filled then count the five filled frames by 5’s. 

Phy Ed 

~Mr. Ekert (4th grade teacher) is our first guest reader of the month!

~There are still openings for reading to our class during I Love to Read Month! Please go here to sign-up for a time. Thank you! 
~Please log your reading minutes!
~Feel free to send in your child's valentines whenever they are ready. That gives us time to get them passed out before the party on February 12. The kids will decorate a bag at school to hold their valentines.

Monday, February 2

    

Monday, February 2
Happy Groundhog's Day!
Happy I Love to Read Month!

Green Day: Library  

To kick off I Love to Read month, the children will be entertained by storyteller, Dan Gruhlke, from 9:05-9:45. 

Dan Gruhlke long ago was fondly tagged, “Mr. G.” as he spent over three decades “listening to the littlest” stories (& telling some himself). It has been said of Mr. G. that he “speaks fluent five-year-old” enjoying his career with preschoolers and kindergartners “primarily” while venturing a handful of years with intermediate grade students. After over a 35-year education career Mr. G.’s continuing to enrich and engage young audiences through oral storytelling and songs via his “Little Mountain Stories.” You’ll often find him donned in his storytelling overalls, guitar nearby, rearin’ to tell or sing, “just one more,…pleeeeaaassssse.”

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)  By: Philemon Sturges
GENRE: Folktale
Social Studies Connection: Perseverance In this updated folktale, the Little Red Hen perseveres in making a pizza even after her friends refuse to help. Through hard work, Hen achieves her goal and shares the result with her friends.

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Connect and Teach: Folktales

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Blending Onset and Rime

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant v
Irregular Words: have, love

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Prepositions

STEM class with Mr. Brown today.
Zero the Hero visits today...Day 90!

     Music Today  

   
Groundhog's Day activities...
 Did the groundhog see his shadow? We will look at our predictions from Friday and discuss the results.
 Stories: Ten Grouchy Groundhogs!  By: Kathryn Helig
                     Double Trouble Groundhog Day  By: Bethany Roberts
                 ~Groundhog pop-up puppet. 

  
~Start logging reading minutes...It would help us if you kept the log in your child's folder so we can log their minutes throughout the week rather than the end of the month. Thank you!
~See you tomorrow morning for Rise & Read...wear your pj's, bring a blanket and books to read! 

Friday, January 30

    

Friday, January 30
Orange Day: Technology  
Technology class at 8:20. 

READING AND VOCABULARY

Big Book: The Electric Slide and Kai  By: Kelly J. Baptist

Genre: Fiction
Review Power Words: important, scared, surprised

Review Big Idea Words: practice, proud, success

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes (initial), Blending/Segmenting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant q(u), w
Irregular Words: Review

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Dialogue (Quotation marks in print indicate someone is talking.)

 Handwriting: Number 13

 Writer's Workshop: Problem/Solution
Today, we will focus on how many stories contain a problem and solution. 

  KinderMath: Count By 2's Part 2 

We will start the lesson by reading the story, Eggs and Legs by Michael Dahl which is about counting by 2's and pairs of objects. The students will use 10 pairs of color cubes (2 red, 2 yellow, etc.) and a set of count by 2's number cards. Partners will first make the pairs from the snap cubes. They will then lay out their snap cubes with space between each set of cubes. Next, they will a lay out the number cards under each set to match and lastly, go back through to practice counting the cubes by 2's.

               

    Will the groundhog see his shadow? The kids will make predictions today and graph the results on Monday. 

 Phy Ed Today 

~It was so nice to chat with all of you at conferences....Thank you for coming!
~ We would LOVE to have as many readers visit us for I Love to Read month as possible...family members are invited to read if you can't... Click here. Thank you!
~Library Day is Monday.
Have a wonderful weekend!

Thursday, January 29

   

Thursday, January 29
Black Day (No computer class or library.)

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: The Electric Slide and Kai By: Kelly J. Baptist
GENRE: Fiction
Print Concepts: Return Sweep
Character Feelings
Foundational Skills in Context

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant q(u)
Irregular Words: Review
Fluency: Phrasing and Intonation

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Dialogue (Quotation marks in print indicate someone is talking.)

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living. Print Concepts: Return Sweep• Character Feelingt

 Writer's Workshop: Writer's Make a Plan
Using the heart map they made yesterday, the kids will choose one thing to write about and think of a story idea about that. They will then draw a beginning, middle and end for that idea.

 Handwriting: Number 12

Literacy Jobs

 KinderMath: Numbers to 100
*We begin a new unit today called Numbers to 100 with today's lesson focusing on counting by 2's. A stack of 20 unmatched socks will be placed in the middleof our circle. "How many socks do I have? Can I know without counting? How many socks do you need to put on your shoes? When we have two of something we call this a pair or a match." After making the 10 sets of pairs, we will go back and count the socks one-by-one. "Remember Mathematicians always want to get to an answer the most efficient way possible! I will count them by 2’s. When we count by 2’s, we are skip-counting."  I will show the kids how to “whisper” count to 20 by whispering the skipped number and “shouting” the numbers counted by 2’s. For example, 1 (whisper), 2 (shout), 3 (whisper), 4 (shout), etc. 

Music Today 

~I am looking forward to visiting with the rest of you who are scheduled for conferences this evening! 
~I am looking for volunteer readers during I Love to Read Month! Please go here to sign-up for a time. Thank you! 

Wednesday, January 28

   

Wednesday, January 28
White Day (No computer class or library)

Big Book: The Electric Slide and Kai  By: Kelly J. Baptist

Genre: Fiction
Social Studies Connection: Perseverance

In this fiction text, Kai learns that practicing a lot can make him a better dancer. He also gets some help from the people around him. His perseverance pays off when he dances with the rest of his family. Connect and Teach: Character Clues

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: Jabari Jumps  By: Gaia Cornwall
GENRE: Fiction

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.History and Symbols

In this biography, children learn about the life and leadership of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Illustrations depict life when Dr. King was a child and the impact of his message of equality.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Connect and Teach: Character Feelings

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant q(u), w
Irregular Words: Review

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Dialogue (Quotation marks in print indicate someone is talking.)

 Handwriting: Number 11
Literacy Jobs

 Writer's Workshop: Heart Map
We begin a new Narrative unit in writing today. Our first lesson focuses on how writers draw things that are important to them. To generate ideas, each child will get a picture of a heart and draw and label things they love. 

Time for Kids: Living in the Wild

Kindermath: Positional Words
Today's lesson focuses on positional words, so I will have them stand next to a table/chair and follow my prompts as they stand next to, under, on, etc.
After engaging in this activity, we will wrap up the shape unit by making a fun positional shape monster.  

 Phy Ed Today 

~ Conferences continue tomorrow evening. I'm looking forward to chatting with the rest of you!

~I am looking for volunteer readers during I Love to Read Month! Please go here to sign-up for a time. Thank you!