High Frequency Words:  girl, boy, together, when, people, care, water 

Vocabulary Words:  animals, bread, brother, cook, home, leaves, llama, neighborhood, recycled, river 

Spelling Words:  Rice - sled, slip, snake, snap, spill, spin; Timber - sled, slip, snake, snap, spill, spin, people, water, make, game; or Tabasco - sled, slip, snake, snap, spill, spin, people, water, make, game,  

Strategy:  Text Structure 

Skill:  Compare and Contrast 

Story of the Week:  Either Rice: "Boys and Girls Play," Timber: "Kids Can Help," or Tabasco:  "Fun Days."

                                                Unit 3, Story 3, Me and My Shadow

Phonics:  Consonant Digraphs ch-, wh-, -tch

High Frequency Words:  light, our, would, your, again

Vocabulary Words:  change, moves, earth, shadow

Spelling Words:  Rice - whip, whale, catch, match, chin, chop; Timber - whip, whale, catch, match, chin, chop, our, your, slip, spin; or Tabasco -  whip, whale, catch, match, chin, chop, our, your, slip, spin, would, again, light, change, moves, earth, shadow. 

Strategy:  Text Structure 

Skill:  Main Idea and Detail 

Test Strategy:  Think and Search

Story of the Week:  Either Rice: "Shadows," Timber: "Short Shadows, Long Shadows," or Tabasco:  "The Sun."

Students will use the "Write From the Beginning" process to compose a second round of thank you letters.  Students will use the same process to write descriptive sentences of topics of their choice. 

Students will write sentences about shadows, specifically a time when they saw their shadow.  As an extension, they can think of a time when they didn't see their shadow and write about that.     

Students will work with partners to shine a light on the wall, putting their hands in front of the light.  They can make an animal show.  They draw and write about the animal shadows they made. 

Students will draw pictures about something that needs the sun, and then write a sentence about their pictures.  As an extension they can think of things the sun can do, and write about one good thing and one bad thing the sun can do.

Students can draw a picture of Earth and the sun, labeling their drawings.  As an extension, they can write about how it could be night in one place and day in another on Earth.     

Students can read stories about shadows either alone or with a partner, using inflection to lift their voices while reading at the end of sentences that end with question marks.  They then discuss their favorite parts of the stories.

Students can partner-read the story of the week with a partner and use retelling cards to retell the story to a partner.

Students will read the leveled readers for the week.

Students can read in pairs, groups, or independently from either the Unit Reading List or books from the classroom library, and take AR tests as appropriate.

Students can read for fluency into a computer. 

                                                                   Word Study

Students can sort the spelling words on index cares into rhyming words. 

Students can complete the word study flipchart on any classroom computer. 

Students can complete the Vocabulary Online Activity at www.mhln.com.

Students can use Discovery Bottles to identify items and match the intial sounds with letters of the alphabet.  Their "assignments" will be individualized. 

Students can practice putting words in alphabetical order.

Students can work in pairs to use word cards to make compound words. 

Students can match synonyms.

Students can match antonyms.

Students can practice phoneme segmentation.

Students can use either the cd or cassette player to listen to AR or other stories on tape as they "read along." 

Students can use the min-cassette player to listen to Earobics Letter Sounds tapes.

Students can connect to the Literacy Online Lesson at www.mhln.com for independent computer instruction and practice.

Students use the flipchart for the Promethean Board on sorting words.   

Students use the flipchart for the Promethean Board on compound words.

Students use the flipchart for the Promethean Board on contractions.

Students complete Read It, Draw It, Solve It story problems independently.

Students continue to practice sorting a variety of items, and guess the rules for why items were placed in one category or another. 

Students will practice estimating length of shadows and then verifying accuracy.  They can use both standard and nonstandard measurement.

Students use the Promethean Flipchart on Touchpoint Math during Math Choice Time.

Students explore predictability through several different methods. 

Students conduct surveys and record the data on topics that are preferences and some that are opinions.

                                                                    Social Studies

Students will practice differentiating between past, present, and future by playing a guessing game, "Past, Present, or Future?" and writing a story chain. 

Students can choose to work in groups of three to write a story chain, where the first student writes the opening sentence of the story chain by writing about the past, and then passes the paper to the student sitting on the right and that student writes the next sentence telling about the present.  The last student writes the third statement about what might happen in the future.     

Students contine to practice measuring a variety of items using both standard and non-standard measures.  They complete a scavenger hunt for items they can measure with toothpicks, clips, inches, and centimeters. 

Students continue to practice estimating weights of a variety of objects. 

                                                                Assessments 

Spelling Practice and Final Tests

Reading Comprehension/Skills Test

Vocabulary Usage Test

Students will read a story, and then retell it in at least 3 steps, writing three descriptive sentences and illustrating each.  This can be done on the computer as a powerpoint slide show.

Math Skills Assessment 

Checklists and rubrics for participation in Science, Social Studies, and Performance Art/Music/Creative Art activities Completion of Dolch packets, Reading workbook packets (individualized based upon student capability), completion of handwriting worksheets, completion of Learning Labs.