Tuesday, March 17

Tuesday, March 17
Orange Day: Technology
Technology class at 8:20. 

Oh my, the shenanigans have already started!
Those sneaky leprechauns have left green footprints all over the morning message and have messed with a few things in our classroom!

 In fact, they turned all the papers for math & literacy mini-size and replaced the crayons, pencils, and markers with mini ones! Even more, they left a note on each of their traps telling the kids that they couldn't be fooled!

We will be on the lookout ALL day for more of their suspicious activity! Maybe we will find them here in the fields of Ireland... 

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  

Big Book: A Morning with Grandpa By: Sylvia Liu

Connect and Teach: Character Clues

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes (medial), Blending Onset and Rime (y-am, b-us), Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonems

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph sh

Irregular Words: Review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Review Complex Sentences  Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: Letter Mm
(Tall Line Down-Retrace Letters: P, R, B, D, N, M)

Lucky Charms Graphing  

What shape will have the most? The least? The same? The best part is eating our math!

Math: Shamrock addition

Project: Leprechaun Kid

Music Today

 It's likely the leprechauns will visit our classroom while the kids are out looking for gold! (YIKES!) 

~Library day tomorrow.

~The sixth graders were a HUGE help to the littles! It was fun to watch them work together to make the best kind of trap to get those sneaky leprechauns! I will send the trap home with your child today.