Tuesday, November 10

          
Tuesday, November 10

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: Places in my Community By: Bobbie Kalman
Social Studies Connection: Neighborhood/Community In this text, children discover important places in their community, ranging from homes and workplaces to schools and shops. They also meet key community members like firefighters and veterinarians.
GENRE: Informational Text

Connect and Teach: Informational Texts

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Blending Syllables

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant r
Irregular Words: of, for

GRAMMAR
Questions: A question is a type of sentence that asks. Questions often begin with words such as who, what, when, where,

why, and how.

 Handwriting: Lowercase c
The next several lessons will focus on Lowercase c Stroke letters (c, o, a, d, g, q, s, f).
(We did not get to this last week.)

Kindermath: Same Number

~I show a number and the children count their objects to make it the same.
~Using a variety of number set cards, partners take turns turning over two cards to see if they contain the same number of items. 

Projects: Making a Veteran & Fingerpaint an American Flag

 

(Last names A-K: PE, L-Z: Music)

~ The book order is due tomorrow...You can order here.
~Kindergarten is collecting pancake mix to put in Thanksgiving baskets for families in need. Thank you!

Monday, November 9

                                                       

Monday, November 9

**We will be honoring our Veterans all week.
Today, the kids will learn what it means to be a Veteran.

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Tiny Rabbit's BIG WISH  By: Margarita Engle

Review Power Words: enormous, height, wish

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness Review: Isolating/Blending/Segmenting Phonemes, Producing Rhymes, Blending Onset and Rime: p-in, b-at, etc.

Irregular Words: was, you
Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction

GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses 

Writer's Workshop: Adding Details
 The kids will learn how adding more details to their illustration will make it more interesting.

Kindermath: One Less

The kids will work on this concept by playing the game of Concentration. The picture below tells how they will play but it will be One Less. 

The other One Less activity planned is described below.

 This promotes math skill work of: compare, greater, less, same. 

For STEAM today, Mr. Brown will join me in our classroom during STEAM time to help me with our science lesson today.
In this lesson, students explore the strength of pushes and pulls in order to solve a tricky problem. In the activity, Don't Crush That House, students investigate how to adjust a model wrecking ball's force so they can knock down a wall of cups. The challenge: they can't knock down the paper houses right behind the cups! See the picture below...

 

(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

~ The book order is due Wednesday...You can order here.
~ We enjoyed celebrating with Hazel H. last week!

Thursday, November 5

      

Thursday, November 5
Happy Birthday, Hazel H.!

READING AND VOCABULARY
Big Book: My Friends by Taro Gomi
Print Concepts: One-to-One Correspondence

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant c /k/
Irregular Words: was, you
Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction

GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses 

 Handwriting: Lowercase c
The next several lessons will focus on Lowercase c Stroke letters (c, o, a, d, g, q, s, f).

Kindermath: One More

The kids will work on the concept of one more playing the game Dump the Cup and Compare. To play the game, the kids dump a cup that contains 10 two-sided colored chips as shown below and compare who has more/less by lining the chips up one to one.

Project: Shape Scarecrow

~ Our visit to the library is from 9:50-10:20.

 

  
(Last names A-K: PE, L-Z: Music)


~Reminder: No school tomorrow...teacher workshop.
~ The book order is due Wednesday, November 11...You can order here.
See you Monday!

Wednesday, November 4

      

Wednesday, November 4

Big Book: My Friends by Taro Gomi
Social Studies Connection: Individual Development and Identity In this story, a girl learns various skills from her many different friends, like how to march from a rooster and how to nap from a crocodile! Everyone has something different to teach.
Connect and Teach: Author and Illustrator

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Tiny Rabbit's BIG WISH By: Margarita Engle

Connect and Teach: Character Clues

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant c /k/
Irregular Words: was, you

GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Review
After today, the strokes for all the letters and numbers have now been introduced. The next lesson will focus on specific letters that have the same strokes in common.

Writer's Workshop: Big Line
The kids will learn how to separate their paper with a big line to add more details for the setting. For instance, an illustration of ocean water and the sky is split into two parts: The top is the sky and the bottom is the water.

   Time for Kids: Spotlight on Plants

KinderMath: Comparing Sets One to One

The kids will work on counting objects in a set and then comparing that amount with their partner's set. This promotes math skill work of: compare, greater, less, same.

 STEAM with Mr. Brown 

 
(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

~Disguise a turkey is due tomorrow.
~ The book order is due Wednesday, November 11...You can order here.
~ Library day is tomorrow. 
~ Hope for Henry Bubble Gum Day is tomorrow...bring $2 and gum.
~ YAY!!! So many of you returned the Roll & Read homework sent home earlier this week! What a happy sight in this teacher's eyes!

Tuesday, November 3

     

Tuesday, November 3
ELECTION DAY!

~The kids will head to the polls and cast their ballot as to who they think should be president, Duck or Farmer Brown! We will then graph their responses and analyze the data!

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: Tiny Rabbit's BIG WISH By: Margarita Engle
Connect and Teach: Check for Understanding
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Deleting Words, Blending Onsets and Rime

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant p
Irregular Words: was, you

GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses

 Handwriting: C Stroke

It's the 40th day of school...Zero the Hero will be here!

KinderMath: Compare Sets
The children will do a few activities that work on comparing sets like the following:

Each child will pick a number card and build that amount with cubes. They will compare the towers they build with their math partner to see who has more/less. 

Science: Why Do Builders Need So Many Big Machines?

In this Read-Along lesson, Vivian watches a house being built and wonders why the builders need so many big machines. The lesson includes a short exercise where students act out the “work words” of their favorite machine. 
  
(Last names A-K: PE, L-Z: Music)


~ A few turkeys in disguise have been coming in...they are hiliarious and I can't wait to see more! Please send it in by Thursday, Nov. 5.