Tuesday, April 23

Tuesday, April 23

Word Work with Manipulative Letters  

ink to pink to sink to think to thin to tin to tan to tank to thank to sank to bank to blank to plank to plunk to punk to sunk to junk to hunk to bunk 

 Irregular Words: walk, talk, could, would, should, or, for  NEW: there, where

    Read: There are things in the trunk.

   There is a lot of junk in the tank.

           Where is Frank? I have to thank him! 

Spell: The skunk stinks!

                       Where do you think it is?

                          There is a dish in the sink. 

    

KinderLiteracy: Storms

We will focus these vocabulary words within the story (weather, crystal, electricity, funnel) and answer these questions:

1) Who is the author? What is their job compared to the illustrator?
2) What is one fact we heard from the book?
Writer's Workshop: Rough Draft
The kids will revisit the ideas they drew on their heart map last week. These were pictures/labels of things they love. Today, the kids will choose some of those ideas to draw a beginning, middle, and end.
Literacy Jobs 

Math: Differences to 10
For today’s lesson the kids will be working on equations within 10 by using the book, Elevator Magic by Stuart Murphy. We will use the vertical number line we used yesterday as it will directly resemble the elevator display from the story. 
There are 10 floors and we are going down 2. What is 10 take away 2?
 We are on the 8^th floor and are going down 3 floors. What is 8 take away 3?
After the read aloud, each kid will have an elevator card, whiteboard and dry-erase marker. I will lead the kids in problems like these and they will record the equation on their whiteboard. 
We are on the 9^th floor and are going down 3 floors. What floor will be on? 
The kids  write 9-3=6 
We are on the 10^th floor and going down 7 floors. 
The kids will write 10-7=3.

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.

PE Today

~Field trip permission forms/money are due tomorrow. 

Monday, April 22

 Monday, April 22

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: honk, chunk, gunk, stunk
 Segment: bunk, junk, dunk, skunk
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: ng, wh, ph, ch, th, sh, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, z, s (s, z) u, e, i, o, a
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: ng, w (w, wh) f (f, ff, ph) ch, th (voiced/unvoiced) sh, k (c, k, ck), u, e, i, o, a, f, ff, l, ll, s, ss, z, z (s, z, zz)
BlendingDrill 
sang to slang to slung to stung to stun to shun to sun to sung to song to Kong to king to thing to thin to then to when
New Concept   
 The grapheme N spells /n/ when followed by k

    

KinderLiteracy: Storms

The kids will listen to Storms by Miriam Goin to build an interest in the topic for this week: Storms

The comprehension strategy this week is Connections.
 Literacy Jobs 
*New literacy work is now available for the kids. 

Math: Subtracting One

Today, the kids will focus on subtracting one with the use of a vertical number line.

Using the Ten in a Bed poem, the kids will raise 10 fingers and subtract one-by-one to notice that the number is getting less by one each time. The goal is to have the kids continue to notice the connection between less and subtraction. We will continue to use the vertical number line to demonstrate a subtraction problem like this: 

5 birds were in a tree. 3 birds flew away. How many birds are left? We will find the number 5 and swoop down 3 spots to see there are 2 birds left.   

Thunderstorm in a Cup
The kids will love this experiment!

Fill a cup half full of water to represent the sky then add shaving cream on the water for clouds. Next, add a few drops of blue food coloring onto the top of the cloud to represent water droplets. As a cloud gets full and heavy the water starts to fall from the sky as rain. I'll simplify the concept of lightning by explaining the frozen water in the cloud bumps into each other and causes an electrical charge. That electrical charge can turn into lightning. We'll use bent paperclips to represent lightning in the cup.
 Music Today

~We enjoyed celebrating with Maverik on Friday!

~Field trip permission forms/money are due Wednesday, April 24. 

Friday, April 19

  

   Friday, April 19
        Happy Birthday Maverik! (tomorrow)

Math: Unknown Subtraction Stories (Day 2)

We will continue to work on the difference in unknown problems. The kids will solve the unknown number problem using cubes and then write the subtraction equation. For instance:
I had 8 balloons. My friend had 5 balloons. How many fewer does my friend have?
8-5=3
Project: Watercolor Flower
 
Project #2: Grass House
The kids will pour dirt and plant grass seed for their little front yard today. They will journal about the changes that happen over time.

Computer class this afternoon.

PE Today

~Field trip permission forms/money is due Wednesday, April 24. 

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, April 18

 

Thursday, April 18

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
whip to whips to hips to ship to hip to him to whim to whiz to which 

 Irregular Words: were, walk, talk, could, would, should  NEW: or, for

Read: What is that thing?
                       You will get the hang of it.

                                      You have to sing the song for me! 

 Spell: Ling swung the bat.
               A bug stung the king! 

                        She hung on to the swing.  

KinderLiteracy: Seed to Plant

We'll review the vocabulary words...

 

Writer's Workshop: Writer's Draw Things that are Important to Them
We start a new unit today on writing Narratives. To launch the unit, the kids will hear the story, Look, I Wrote a Book by Sally Lloyd-Jones and illustrate/label something they love on a heart shape. I will send home an informational letter about this unit today.

Literacy Jobs 
Time for Kids: On the Job
*We did not get to this yesterday.*

Math: Unknown Subtraction Stories

We will work on the difference in unknown problems. The kids will show the problem using cubes and write the problem statement. The following is an example of the problems they will work on.
My teacher has 10 flowers and my principal has 7 flowers. How many fewer flowers does my principal have than my teacher? 
It's important the kids are confident in stating how many fewer there are. Again, this can be very difficult for the kids as they are most confident with more.   
   It's day 140...It's time for Zero the Hero to visit!

 Music Today

~Thank you to Mrs. Malwitz's 6th graders for reaching their Irish Pride ticket goal and choosing Bubble Gum Day for tomorrow! Send gum with your child if you want them to participate!
~Have your child wear blue tomorrow for Autism awareness.

Wednesday, April 17

  

 Wednesday, April 17

 Phonemic Awareness 
Blend: song, lung, rung, flung
 Segment: hung, gong, long, swung
Visual Drill
      Graphemes: wh, ph, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced), sh, ck, u, e, i, o, a, ff, ll, ss, zz
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: wh, ph, ch, th (voiced/unvoiced), sh, ck, u, e, i, o, a, ff, ll, ss, zz
BlendingDrill 
which to wiff to whim to him to ham to wham to whack to hack to hash to rash to rab to
 grab to graph to graphs 

New Concept   
 The grapheme NG spells /n/

KinderLiteracy: Seed to Plant

The kids will sequence the steps a seed moves through to become a plant. 

 Literacy Jobs 
Writer's Workshop: Writing Celebration!

The kids have learned how to do SO much in their writing! 

They know how to draw a character, setting, add labels AND write a

sentence with the Writer's Checklist as their guide! 

Today we celebrate all of their hard work. The kids will read their stories to friends and receive an author's crown, special pencil and have a dance party! I will include a special note about the completion of the unit in today's Wednesday envelope.

Library Day!

Time for Kids: On the Job

Math: Subtraction Stories: Day 2

We will work on more subtraction stories within 10 today. On Friday, the kids used a farm scene to lay the cubes on. Today, they have a pond scene with frogs to use for solving the story problems. 
PE Today

~Our field trip information will be sent home today in the Wednesday envelope.