January
Reading: realistic vs. make believe, author's purpose, sequence
Suggested Titles:Adventure of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Martin Luther King Jr., Bear Snores on, One Little Mouse, A Bed for Winter, Snow Day, Snowflakes
Math: CC.K.OA.1 Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings (Drawings need not show details, but should show the mathematics in the problem) sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
Themes: Martin Luther King Jr., Winter, Hibernation and Migration
Sight Words: the, like, can, pink, brown, yellow, black, purple, orange, white, I, red, blue, green, cat, could, at, am, an, a, to, all, and, away, dad, dog, day, he, here, mom, me, have, is, too, to, two, no, said, in, it, we, my, after, for, get, go, going, off, on, of, be, could, down, play, put, eight