Weekly Focus
This is what we are learning!
ELA: Unit 2 Description
Just For Fun is a unit where students begin “how to” and report writing. The
stories focus on animal friends, helping others, habitats, music, and
laughter. The phonics/spelling skills cover the short o, e and u; introduce
digraphs and l blends. The comprehension focus includes main ideas with
details, retelling, and sequencing. Fluency practice focuses on reading
patterns, reading questions, reading dialogue, and reading exclamations.
Enduring Understandings:
My friends and I learn new things as we grow.
Everything that I know and everything that I do help me to
understand others.
Essential Questions:
Why is it important to learn new things?
Why do I need to understand others?
How do I know when I understand others?
Lesson 1:
Story: A Prairie Dog Home
Big Book: Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Decodable Reader: This Fish, That Fish
Leveled Readers: In the Forest, Birds, Bears on Ice
Vocabulary: into, many, live, out
Story Words: prairie dog, meet, claws, caring
Comprehension: Strategy- Summarize
Skill-Main idea and Details
Writing: Main idea sentences
Phonics: Digraphs: sh, th
Spelling Words: run, fun, nut, cut, bug, rug, thin, shop, under, put
Grammar/Mechanics: Nouns, Plural nouns, Irregular Plural Nouns
Literacy Stations: Spelling, Word Builder, Writing, Partner Reading,
Computer, Art, Phonics, Promethium Board
Assessment: teacher generated tests, teacher observation and guaranteed
curriculum assessment activities.
Math: Unit 2 Description
In this unit students will discover ways that numbers can be made from other
numbers, broken into parts to describe dot patterns and sets of objects.
Students will read, write, and sequence numbers up to 100, find the total of
two or more numbers, and compare numbers to find which is larger. Students
will use their growing number sense to develop strategies for solving
addition and subtraction story problems and find their own way to record
their thinking. As students use their growing understanding of numbers to
solve a variety of addition and subtraction story problems, they will learn
to recognize and interpret addition and subtraction situations, choose and
carry out strategies and record the strategies clearly.
Enduring Understandings:
Knowing how things are alike and different is important.
There are many ways to “tell about” numbers.
I can think in numbers.
Essential Questions:
Why do we need numbers? How are they used in our world?
How can I tell about how things are different and how they are alike?
How can I “tell about” a number in different ways?
Why is it important for me to think in numbers?
Students will be able to…
Construct number meaning and demonstrate that number can be expressed
in many different forms (e.g. standard notation, number words, number lines,
geometrical representation)
Demonstrate number sense and estimation skills
Read, write, represent, compare, and order using whole numbers in a
variety of forms
Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the meaning of basic
arithmetic
Selecting appropriate operations for a given situation
Apply a knowledge of basic math fact and arithmetic operations to
real-life situations
Construct, use, and explain procedures to compute and explain
procedures to compute and estimate with whole numbers
Select and use appropriate computational methods for a given
situation involving whole numbers
Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of variables, expressions,
equations, and inequalities (use letters or boxes to represent variables,
understand =,<, and >
Model and develop strategies for solving equations and inequalities
Recognize, describe, extend, and create a wide variety of numerical,
geometrical, and statistical patterns (skip counting of whole numbers)
Use strategies and tools to problem solve in real life
Math Literacy Stations: Number writing, Partner Games, Computer, Addition,
Promethean Board, Building Station
