November 30 - December 4, 2009
Reading Workshop:
1. Reading Strategy: Looking for chunks (parts of words you know).
Writing Workshop:
1. Introduction to Organization: sequence of events, story structure.
Phonological Awareness:
1. Determining sounds in the beginning and ending of a word.
2. Word Family: -ed
Word Wall Word(s):
1. with
2. it
3. in
4. is
5. we
Handwriting:
1. Number 8
2. Number 9
3. Letter A
4. Letter I
5. Number 10
Mathematics:
Ordinal Numbers
Science / Social Studies:
Giving to others & Holiday Celebrations Around the World: Las Posadas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, Diwali, Chinese New Year
November 23-24, 2009
We're playing a little bit of "catch up" and having fun with Thanksgiving this week!
November 16-20, 2009
Reading Workshop:
1. Reading Strategy: Get your mouth ready.
2. Comprehension: Identify the characters, setting, problem/solution; think of connections and wonderings.
Writing Workshop:
1. Writing about ideas from your imagination.
2. Top Quality Work: writing lowercase letters, improving handwriting, writing smaller.
Phonological Awareness:
1. Segmenting words
2. -og word family
Word Wall Word(s):
1. are
2. all
3. you
4. your
Handwriting:
1. Letter Q
2. Letter G
3. Letter S
Mathematics:
Number Concepts: 0-20 (learning to conserve a number in your head and count on from it)
Science / Social Studies:
The First Thanksgiving
November 9 - 13, 2009
Reading Workshop:
1. Making your own choices within our Reading Workshop schedule: Read To Self, Read To Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing (continued).
2. Comprehension Strategy: Retell the story with a beginning, middle, and ending.
Writing Workshop:
1. We can add labels to our picture plans / purpose of labels.
2. Moving beyond one sentence; speaking and writing in complete sentences.
3. Using "because" to elaborate in a story.
Phonological Awareness:
1. Beginning sounds
2. Hearing and substituting sounds
3. -un word family
Word Wall Word(s):
1. said
2. because
Handwriting:
1. Letter Y
2. Letter Z
3. Letter C
4. Letter O
Mathematics:
Number Concepts: 5-10
Science / Social Studies:
Fall Plants / Harvest
November 2 - 6, 2009
Reading Workshop:
1. Making your own choices within our Reading Workshop schedule: Read To Self, Read To Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing
Writing Workshop:
1. What is expository text? (non-fiction)
2. What are the characteristics of expository text?
Phonological Awareness:
1. Hearing and blending onsets and rimes
2. Segmenting words
3. -ug word family
Word Wall Word(s):
1. of
Handwriting:
1. Letter V
2. Letter W
3. Letter X
4. Number 7
Science / Social Studies:
US Symbols / Voting
Mathematics:
Number Concepts: 0-5