Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on December 4, 2017
We had a great week last week following our Thanksgiving break. On Fun Friday we made snowmen ornaments. They turned out so cute! This week our class will enjoy making a Gingerbread graph and completing a number write around the room!
Weekly Plans and Activities
Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: it, review: I, can, am, like, the, on, see, me, we, go, at)
- M –draw and write about weather using sight word “it”
- T – make word family houses
- W – sight word tic tac toe
- Th –make a Christmas card
- F – free writing or finish up a writing you have started that is in your writing folder, add Christmas/Winter word bank to writing resource folder
Morning Message:
- M- Read it Right Practice
- T –diagraph “sh”
- W – Deleting Final Phonemes Practice
- Th –beginning sounds secret message
- F –Rhyme Away! #3– students listen to story and erase rhymes
Writing
- Continue working on creating a book about a topic you are interested in with a partner
- Interactive Writing: My Five Senses at Christmas
- December Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
- Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist charts
Reading:
- Book – The Gingerbread Man, An Elf for Christmas, Rock Star Santa
- Poems – 5 Little Gingerbread Men (focus on sight words and color words)
- Focus –Inferencing, Retelling, Beginning/Middle/End, Story Elements
- Questions –Inferencing/When You Retell…, In the Beginning…, Next…, At the end…
- Phonics Lessons and Activities- deleting final phonemes, beginning sounds, diagraph “sh”, CVC word boxes, sight word chants
Math: (Comparing sets of objects up to 20 using comparative language)
- M-F – Number Talks: (Number Strings and Dot Cards) Christmas Subtilizing, Problem Solving with the Gingerbread Problem, Using a Rekenrek
- M – draw the number 7 in different ways, Christmas Count Around the Room, Christmas ornament number mix up (arrange numerals 0-12 in the correct order)
- T – Gingerbread Graph, Problem Solving
- W –Discussion on Comparing Strings of Numbers, Christmas Spin and Graph, Hot Chocolate Addition w/cotton marshmallows
- Th –Greater Than/Less Than Discussion and Chart, use Uno cards to complete greater than/less than sentence strips
- F – Rekenreks, 10 fingerprints tree, 4 In a Row game
Science/Social Studies:
- M – Holiday Celebrations-Christmas Brain Pop Jr.
- T – review needs vs. wants, students take home their flyer
- W – candy cane science experiment
- T – Brainstorm and submit list of questions to Santa to prepare for Santa chat next week
- F – Make Gingerbread Play-Doh
The Christmas Scholastic Boor order is due this week if you would like to place an order. Also, please review the information about our upcoming Christmas party and activities that was sent in folders last week. I hope everyone has a great week!!
