Our Country, Our Land

Week 10: Lesson Plans

America the Beautiful

Precipitation

A Thanksgiving Story

A Turkey for Thanksgiving

I Accidentally

Print Concepts and Concept Development

Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Skills

Cause/Effect, opposites, predict/verify, rhyming, now and Long Ago

**The author of I Accidentally came to speak to the children and read her book and discuss how books are written, illustrated and published!

**Grade 3 presented a Reader’s Theater for us

**American Stage presentation

Sounds/letters introduced so far:

Aa, Bb, Tt, Pp, Ss, Mm, Oo, Cc, Rr, Ll, Uu, Nn, Ii, Gg, Dd, Ff

New Sounds/Letter:  Hh, Ww

Auditory blending, decoding, word families/rhyming

High-Frequency Words 

Predecodable Books

Review: me, see, a, A, for, is, an, at, the, The, I, am, you, be, can, he, she, we, and, are, like, likes, but, us, up, not, on, down, big, go, in, it, little, said, come, with, to

NEW: want, as, has

At the Library

Vocabulary Focus

Math

Grain, mountain, plain, everglades, beach, sea, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, water cycle, environment, nature, landforms,

Counting by 5’s; 10’s, temperature

Religion

ONLINE

God is with us no matter how we feel and will always be there for us.

Being thankful and thanking God for all that has been given to us.

ABC Section : review introduced sounds-focus on the letters mentioned above

Backpack Bear’s Books: Stories 1-9

Word Machines