Tuesday, April 21

Tuesday, April 21
Orange Day: Technology
Technology class at 8:20.  

Big Book: Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzees By: Betsey Chessen Genre: Informational Text Response to Text: Connect Reading and Writing Review Power Words: curious, observe, study

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes (medial), Blending Onset and Rime (wh-ip, s-ong), Blending Phonemes, Segmenting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes (hung change /ng/ to /t/: hut)

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ng

Irregular Word: what
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Strong Adjectives and Verbs

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  

Workshop: How To Checklist

• Did I tell the reader what supplies they will need?

• Did I use the words first, then, next, and last?

• Did I start my sentence with a capital letter?

• Did I use finger spaces between my words?

• Did I add punctuation at the end?

 Literacy Jobs 
Math: Minus Sign

The kids are working hard to gain an understanding of subtracting and it's time to focus on this abstract symbol. To begin the lesson, the kids will hear the story, If You Were a Minus Sign by: Trisha Speed Shaskan. Next, the kids will hold up the minus sign or equal sign of where they belong in the statement when acting out the following scenarios...

*There were 5 kids at the park, but then 4 of the kids walked home, (5 – 4 = 1).

* 6 dogs were in the yard but 4 dogs ran away, (6 – 4 = 2).

* 5 butterflies were on the flower but 2 butterflies flew away, (5 – 2 = 3).

We Love our Earth!
This week we will do activities that promote caring for our earth.
Today the kids will learn about 'Litter' Red Riding Hood who thinks it is okay to drop her garbage on the ground instead of putting it in the trash can. The story explains how it hurts animals, our environment, and people. At the conclusion of the story, the kids will sequence the events as they occurred in the story.

Music 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. 😀
~ No school on Friday...Teacher Workshop Day.