• High Frequency Words:  why, late, school, today, away, way 
• Vocabulary Words:  today, way, school, away, why, apes, crocodile, late, tree, gate, gumdrop(s), pool, stop 

• Strategy:  Visualize
• Skill:  Sequence of Events 
• Story of the Week:  Either Rice: "Clem Goes to School," Timber: "On My Way to School" or Tabasco:  "Kangaroo's Day."

• Students will write a sentence for a class book about stars, based upon a wonderful book by the author Eric Carle.  This book will be short report based upon a prompt about an animal and its home.  They will use the writer's chekclist to be sure they have included the right information and punctuation.  The writer's chekclist includes:  Does my report have details?  Does each sentence begin with a capital letter?  Do my sentences make sense?

• Students can read stories about animals that live in forests, or different animals' homes either alone or with a partner, discussing their favorite parts of the story.
• 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.

• Students can use a variety of materials to build words with the digraphs /th/th and /sh/sh, read, and write the words. 
• Students can sort the spelling words on index cares into th and sh words. 
• Students can complete the word study flipchart on any classroom computer. 
• Students can listen to the story selection for "A Prairie Dog Home."  They draw pictures of their favorite parts of the story.
• 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 take turns selecting cards from their leveled "Boom Box" with a partner.  They read the word and make a sentence with it. 
  

• Students can think of two animals that live in the same place.  They then draw the animals and their home, and write sentences about them.
• Studens draw an animal that lives in the rainforest, including its home.  They write why the animal likes its home.
• Students choose an animal that lives in a habitat other than a rainforest, drawing the animal's home.  They write why the animal likes its home, and compile their writings into a mini book about animal habitats and homes. 

• Students can use the cd player to listen to the story of the week or the leveled readers independently.
• Students can use either the cd or cassette player to listen to AR or other stories on tape as tehy "read along." 
• Students can use the min-cassette player to listen to Earobics Letter Sounds tapes.

• Students can complete the Online Research and Inquiry Activity about helping at www.mhml.com
• 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 digraphs.   

• Students use fingers to show combinations of numbers up to 10.  They do this during AplusMath. com team building activities. 
• Students analyze visual images via Quick Image Dot Pictures and Touch Point Math.
• Students use the Promethean Flipchart on Touchpoint Math during Math Choice Time.
• Students use number combinations to describe different arrangements of a set of objects. 
• Students find combinations of 10 and 12 using a variety of objects and student derived word problems.
• Students use pictures, stories, and objects to model number combinations.
• Students explore relationships among combinations of a number.
• Students record solutions with pictures, numbers, and words.
• Students work to find more than one solution to a problem.   
• Students practice making up and solving story problems. 
• Students attempt tofind more than one solution to a problem 

• Students talk about an animal that lives where it is very hot.  They write about an animal that lives where it is very cold or very hot. 
• They share their writing about animal habitats with a pratner, using a Venn Diagram to tell how the habitats are the same and different.
• Students conduct and record their conversations with a partner aobut hot and cold  climates.   

• Students will review what they have learned about the "Go, Glow, Grow" Lesson on Nutrition.  They will continue to work on the components of the Smart Bodies Program, especiall the healthy nutrition and exercise components.  They will try to identify daily which luch offerings fit within each of the categories (go, glow, grow). 
• Students pick a photo card of an animal.  They talk about where the animal lives, and sort the cards by habitats.
• Students use the phot cards, picking one and writing two sentences telling about where the animals live.  They draw a picture of each sentence.   

Assessments:  Spelling Practice and Final Tests,  Reading Comprehension/Skills Test, Math Skills Test, checklists and rubrics for participation in Science, Social Studies, and Performance Art/Music/Creative Art activities, Dolch packets, Reading workbook packets (individualized based upon student capability), completion of handwriting worksheets, completion of Learning Labs.