Weekly Focus

         
   This is what we are learning!                  November 9-13,2009
                                                  
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:
Weekly Theme: Let's Laugh
Story: On My Way to School
Big Book: If You Take A Mouse To School
Leveled Readers: Clem Goes to School, Late for School, Kangaroo's Day
Vocabulary: why, late, school, today, away, way, Glen, glad 
Comprehension: Strategy- Visualize (Good readers picture in their minds, the  
                            characters, setting, and actions in stories  
                            they read.)
               Skill- Identify Sequence of Events (Good readers pay
                        special attention to the order of events to
                        help them understand the story better.)
 
Writing: Interactive Writing
Phonics: Identify sound-letter correspondence /bl/bl-,/kl/cl-,/fl/fl-,/pl/pl-,
         /sl/sl-, /gl/gl- 
         Segment and blend sounds in words with l blends. 
Spelling Words: clip,clock,flag,flip,black,block,fun,nut,school,today
Grammar/Mechanics: Capitalizing Days, Months and Holidays
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 numbers 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 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 liltters 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