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.

Monday, November 2

   

Monday, November 2

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

Tiny Rabbit wishes to be big but only grows a little. Yet, he develops

powerful ears, allowing him to hear every forest sound. When his tall

ears save him from a lion, he learns to be happy just as he is. Social Studies Connection: Individual Development and Identity

Connect and Teach: Fables

A fable is a type of folktale. Fables usually are short, have talking animals, and take place

outside. They also teach a lesson.

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Blending Words

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

 GRAMMAR
Verb Tenses

Writer's Workshop: Character and Setting (Day 2)
The kids will draw a different character and setting for today's lesson. It's important to get multiple ideas drawn on paper for when the time comes to write words with their story.

 Handwriting: Rainbow Curve Review

Kindermath: Match Sets to Numerals

We begin a new unit in math called Comparing Numbers. Today, the kids will work on counting objects in sets and match the corresponding numeral. In addition, they will do an activity that works on telling what number comes next within a sequence of numbers.

 STEAM with Mr. Brown 

 
(Last names A-K: Music, L-Z: PE)

~ Tomorrow is the last day to bring in any candy you want to donate to the troops.
~ The cutest little goblins I've ever seen...wouldn't you agree?

~We now have a bakery play center in our classroom!