Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on January 21, 2018
I hope everyone enjoyed the snow days last week. It was just the perfect amount of snow to really have fun with it! The kids were sure excited to share their snow adventures and enjoyed hearing about mine as well. We all started writing snow stories this week. I am encouraging students to use this writing rubric as they work on their stories. This rubric helps them check their writing to make sure they are using all the writing conventions we have been learning about this week. I am encouraging them to also write at home. We try to have a sharing time at the end of each day for students to share any writing that they have been working on at home (ex: sentences using their sight words, stories they are writing, cards they have made for someone, etc.). Please keep sending them in. I love seeing their continued progress and they love sharing in front of their friends!
Weekly Plans and Activities for January 22-26
Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: they, with)
- M –Journal writing – students will draw/write about Winter/snow using the Winter word bank page in their resource folder
- T – sight word writing (they), They are___.
- W – sight word writing (with). Will you go with me to the _____.
- Th – Winter Fluency Find It Game
- F – Yes/No Graphing (Have You Built A Snowman?), Champs Assembly
Morning Message:
- M –fill in the missing middle sounds, digraphs (ch, sh, th), show 1 more than and 1 less than using numerals
- T – stretch out sound to write words, rhyming words, counting backward from 20
- W – blends (fl, sl, gl), write a number sentence, reading sight word sentences with expression
- Th –fill in the missing words to complete the sentence, finish the number bonds, matching pictures to words
- F – “in” word family, rhyming words
Writing
- Interactive Writing: Snow Stories, Winter Words, Winter Writing, Mitten Interactive Pocket Chart
- Winter Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
- Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist
- Begin using student writing rubrics
- Students will draw and write about their snow day using a Beginning, Middle, and End paper
- Parts of a Story song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSyrFfz55xo
- Writing is Cool! Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDkKgMXdyk
- The Sentence Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wrv_ZviMEc
Reading:
- Books – The Hat, The Mitten, The Cold Lady Who Swollowed Some Snow
- Poem – Arctic Animals
- Focus – rhyming words, sight words, chunks, Capitalization, Punctuation, Word Families
- Questions – Retell Beginning, Middle, End…, In the Beginning…, Next…, At the end…, What does this remind you of (connections), Make Comparisons between The Hat and The Mitten
- Phonics Lessons and Activities- diagraphs “ch” “sh” “th”, sight word chants, rhyming words, blends (fl, gl, sl)
Math: (solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10, strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using spoken words, concrete and pictorial models, and number sentences)
- M – Read Animals on Board, act out and write addition problems using teddy bear counters
- T – Read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, then create your own fish addition problem using goldfish crackers
- W –Read the book, 5 Little Ducks, then complete duck adding using a pipe cleaner and yellow beads
Th – Read Domino Addition, then students will complete domino adding - F – Decomposing the Number 5, create Decomposing Anchor Chart using sticky notes to show all the different ways you can make 5
Science/Social Studies:
- M – Martin Luther King Brainpopjr and Martin Luther King Writing-How can I be a friend.
- T – Science Snow Storm In A Jar, predictions and observations
- W – Social Studies Magazine, all about Weather
- T – Pebble Go, learning about research and Winter Animals
- F – Fun Friday – Snowman Painting (using shaving cream and glue)
