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. 

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