Monday, April 20

 Monday, April 20

Gold Day (No computer class or library.)

Big Book: Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzees By: Betsey Chessen Genre: Informational Text 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 Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ng

Irregular Words: what
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Strong Adjectives and Verbs

 Handwriting: Down the Slide Letters Review: V, W, X, Y

Workshop: Draw & Label the Last Page
The kids are going to draw and label the last page of their "how to book". This page begins with the transitional word Last.

We Love our Earth!

The children will meet Mother Earth today. She is here all week to help the children learn ways to care for our earth. The kids will make their own Mother Earth puppet today.

 Literacy Jobs 
Math: Subtract with a Picture
Today’s lesson will start by reviewing the two previous subtraction strategies we learned: subtracting with fingers and with objects. The kids will work with 10 snap cubes and 1 ten frame to solve problems like this:
There were 8 horses at the farm. Put 8 snap cubes down on your ten frame. 2 horses ran away. Take away 2 snap cubes. How many horses are left?  Next, they will use their fingers to solve problems like this:
There were 10 goats in the pasture. Show me your 10 goats. 6 goats left the pasture. Take away 6 fingers. How many goats are left? Lastly, the kids will use the strategy of drawing pictures to solve subtraction problems like this: There were 8 ducks in the pond. 6 ducks flew away. How can I show my ducks flying away? I am going to cross them out. Now, how many ducks are left? I am going to circle the ducks that are left so I can easily see that 2 are left. The kids will illustrate the problem using circles and crossing out the 'take away' part.    

        Phy Ed Today  

~ If you have any spare crew socks (with holes) laying around. We'll take them! We plan to make sock puppets later this week. 😀