I hope everyone had a great weekend! This week we will continue with lesson 8 in our Journey books and have our assessment on Tuesday 11/19 and follow with lesson 9 until the week of Thanksgiving!
Joke of the week: What do you call a sleeping bull?
Language Arts- This week we will continue lesson 8 in our Journey’s series. We will be opening our lessons by blending and segmenting words. For example, /j/ /am/ equals jam; then I will say the word and the students will separate the word into two sounds, for example mop and the students will say /m/ /op/! We will also learn our newest sight word, “a” as well as two advanced words including “play” and “go”, learn more vocabulary, and review the sounds for letter Cc. Our topic for the week is how animals move, and our essential question is: Why do different animals move in different ways? We will read stories such as Jonathan and His Mommy, Move!, and The Hare and the Tortoise. As we read our stories this week we will focus on details, comparing, contrasting, and visualizing what we hear. In grammar we will learn about adjectives for color and create sentences such as, The sun is yellow.
After we have our assessment on Tuesday we will begin lesson 9. In lesson 9 our essential question is, Why do people use wheels? The stories we will read are Good Morning Digger, What Do Wheels Do All Day?, and Wheels Long Ago and Today. As we read our stories we will focus on text and graphic features, conclusions, and question what we read. In grammar we will learn about adjectives for numbers, and create sentences such as, The truck has four wheels. We will learn the sight word to, play, and go; and review the sound/letter Pp.
Language Arts Centers- This weeks center will include identifying colors around the room, beginning sounds, rhyming, and syllables.
Math- This week we will begin Chapter 5, Addition. This is a very long chapter that will take us a couple of weeks in order to ensure students are understanding and utilizing the information being taught.
Jesus Time- This week we will enjoy our religion book, God’s People Get a Land of Their Own, reading the passages and completing the sticker activities! We will also read the Beginners Bible and watch videos about the stories we read!
Social Studies: This week we read our Scholastic on Pilgrims and Indians and how they helped long ago.
We have also come into a shortage of glue sticks, I believe only glue bottles were on the supply list, with that being said if you have any extra glue sticks at home or would like to donate glue sticks to our classroom, it would be greatly appreciated!
Answer: A bull-dozer!
Have a fantastic week!