Thursday, April 9

     
Thursday, April 9
Black Day (No computer class or library.)

Read Aloud: I Know the River Loves Me By: Maya Christina Gonzalaz
Genre: Fiction

Introduce Power Words: close, flow, visit Connect and Teach: Picture It! (Visualizing)

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Substituting Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ck

Irregular Word: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Conjunctions

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  

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: Tall Line Down-ez Across Letters Review
  ( L, H, T, I, F, E)
Writer's Workshop: Generating Ideas
The kids will work on drawing and labeling four ideas of things they know how to do really well in preparation of writing their "How to" book.
Math: Addition Stories
In this lesson, the kids will continue to work on addition but move into word problems. To help launch today's lesson, we will read What's New at the Zoo by: Suzanne Slade. Addition word problems require a lot of listening comprehension skills. These skills will, at times, need more practice than the addition equation itself. Farmer John has a mommy cat and kittens. The mommy cat was outside the fence and the 4 kittens were inside the fence.
 How many cats are there in all? 1 + 4 = 5 

Music Today  

We will go shopping at the Irish Pride Store today. 

~Have your child wear blue tomorrow for Autism awareness. 

The book order is due Wednesday, April 15. This will be the last order of the year!
Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC

Wednesday, April 8

   

Wednesday, April 8

Green Day: Library 

Read Aloud: I Know the River Loves Me By: Maya Christina Gonzalaz
Genre: Fiction

Science Connection: Properties of Objects In this fiction text, the author uses personification to help children learn to transfer their knowledge about friendships and the properties they associate with friends to form meaningful connections with nature. Connect and Teach: Ask and Answer Questions

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Onset-Rime, Isolating Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ck

Irregular Word: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Review Conjunctions
Writer's Workshop: "Verbally Explain"

Writers often use words like first, then, next, and last to help readers understand the order of events. To reinforce this concept, we will read a few "how to" stories and complete an activity sheet on making applesauce using those words. 

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Equal Sign

Today we move into the abstract symbol of the equal sign. As you know, the kids have worked hard in understanding combining of sets. Now it's time to apply those skills through a new means! To help launch today's lesson, we will read through Animals on Board by: Stuart Murphy and meet the character, Ellie the Equal.

For today, the kids will use the equal sign rather than the term 'makes' to complete the problem. 

4 + 2 = 6

Zero the Hero is here today...day 130!

Time for Kids: On the Map

    Phy Ed Today  

The book order is due Wednesday, April 15. This will be the last order of the year!
Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/GXWMC

~Take a look at the pictures below of the fine dining experience in our classroom yesterday. Awesome job working on your reading during Spring Break!

Tuesday, April 7

 
Tuesday, April 7
Orange Day: Technology
Technology class at 8:20.  

Big Book: Not A Box By: Antoinette Portis Genre: Fiction Review Big Idea Words: watch, wonder, world Review Power Words: familiar, free, witness

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes (beginning), Blending Onset and Rime (ch-in, sh-ip), Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes (chin: change /ch/ to /sh/: shin

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ch

Irregular Words: review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Interrogatives: a word, phrase, or sentence structure used to ask a question, typically ending with a question mark.
Writer's Workshop: Introduction to "How to" Writing
We begin a new unit on how writers can teach readers how to do simple tasks. We will explore this idea by looking at a few "how to" books and notice how they explain each step with their pictures, labels, and words.
 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Plus Sign

Today we move into the abstract symbol of the plus sign. As you know, the kids have had a ton of practice combining sets to find out how many in all. Now it's time to apply those skills through a new means! To help launch today's lesson, we will read 

through If I Were a Plus Sign by: Trisha Speed Shaskan and meet the character, Gus the Plus.

For today, we will still use the word, 'makes' rather than the equal sign. 

4 + 2 makes 6

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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  

Music Today  

~ Tomorrow is library day.
~ PLEASE return your child's water bottle.
~ Lunch is in our classroom today!

Monday, April 6

Monday, April 6
Gold Day (No computer class or library.)

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

Big Book: Not A Box By: Antoinette Portis Genre: Fiction 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

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ch

Irregular Words: review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Interrogatives: a word, phrase, or sentence structure used to ask a question, typically ending with a question mark.
 Handwriting: Letter Ee
(Tall Line Down-ez Across Uppercase Letters: L, H, T, I, F, E)
**We did not get to this before Spring Break.

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Add with a Number Path

The children will work with a number path similar to the picture below. 

Researchers believe that a number line is just too abstract for our young mathematicians. Our students need to be able to visually see each unit, which is the box containing a number. This allows for concrete understanding of seeing how many spaces it is from one number to another.

The kids will do a number of problems similar to this:

There were 4 frogs on a log. 2 more hopped on. How many are on the log? 

    Phy Ed Today  

~ PLEASE return your child's water bottle!
~ If you didn't return your child's spring break homework, please do so tomorrow...we are having lunch in our classroom then!
~We enjoyed celebrating with Lukas before break...

Sunday, April 5

Sunday, April 5
HaPpY EaSteR!

*A couple of reminders...
~ Return your child's water bottle tomorrow.
~ Lunch will be in our classroom on Tuesday for those who return the reading packet!