Week of November 30- December 4
Language Arts
Theme - Animal Homes
Skills/concepts - identifying ending sounds, changing ending sounds to make new words, possessive with 's, adding the ending - ing to word, re reading to find information, looking for the main topic and finding key details to support it, reading nonfiction stories and informational text
Story Genre - Informational Text and Nonfiction
Blends - words woth ending blends - nk, nd, nt, st, sk, mp
Vocabulary words - habitat, depend
High Frequency Words - eat, no, of, under, who
Spelling List -
1. lend
2. send
3. fast
4. past
5. sink
6. wink
7. run
8. bug
9. of
10.who
Bonus word
Advent
Math
~ Introduction to Chapter 6
~ place value
~ Identifying groups of 10
~ Number words
~ Counting by 10
Religion
~ Story of St. Nicholas
~ Advent is a time to wait and prepare our hearts for the birthday of Jesus
Science
~ Living and nonliving things
~ basic needs of animals
~ Pets and how we meet their needs
Technology Tuesday
We will explore Epic and do a SeeSaw Activity on nouns.
Writing
Santa is stuck in the chimney. How will we solve this problem?
Week of November 16-20
Language Arts
Theme - Big Buildings
Skills/concepts - creating rhymes, singular and plural nouns, character, setting and events in a story, making and confirming predictions, contractions with 's (ex. let's, she's, he's it's), writing captions for pictures
Story Genre - Fantasy
Vowel sound - short u - blending, reading and writing words with the short u sound as in umbrella
Vocabulary Words - shelter, materials, collapsed, furious, refused
High Frequency Words - could, live, one, three, then
Spelling List
1. run
2. fun
3. nut
4. cut
5. bug
6. rug
7. men
8. head
9. could
10. one
Bonus Word
Thanksgiving
Math
~ more and less
~ subtracting to compare
~ Word problems
~ review of related facts and fact families
~Chapter 4 test on Thursday
Religion
~ Chapter 5 test on Tuesday
~ discuss Ordinary Time in the church calendar
~ Sunday is a day for God
~ Saints and how to follow their example
Science
~ introduction to living and nonliving things
~ 4 needs of living things - food, air, water, shelter
~ environments for living things
Technology Tuesday
We will explore Epic reading! We will look for books on Community Helpers.
Scholastic News
~ Thanksgiving and having a grateful heart!
We will do many writing activities for Thanksgiving this week. How to convince Mom to have pizza for Thanksgiving and how to disguise a turkey!
Week of November 9-13
Language Arts
Theme - "Our Community"
Skills/Concepts - making and confirming predictions, blending and isolating phonemes, adding - ed to a word to make it past tense, introduction to nouns, using a comma to seperate a series of words
Vowel Sound - short e - blending, reading and writing words with short e sound
Vocabulary words - community, occupation, astonishing, equipment, fortunately
High Frequency Words - again, help, new, use, there
Spelling List
1. leg
2. beg
3. men
4. hen
5. head
6. bread
7. grass
8. spin
9. there
10. again
Bonus word
November
Math
~ modeling subtraction with cubes
~ finding key words in subtraction word problems
~ fact families - problems with the same 3 numbers
~ related additon and related subtraction facts
~ review of subtraction facts from 10
Religion
~ how we can "spend time" with Jesus
~ treating others with kindness to show that we are a friend of Jesus
~ introduction to a Commandment - a rule from God
~ The Greatest Commandment to love God and your neighbor
~ Loving ourselves to show love for God
Science
~ Review of engineers and the jobs that they do
~ Designs
~ Sorting items based on matural or manmade materials
~ We will take the Unit 2 Test
Scholastic News
~ Veteran's Day and the courage and bravery shown by the men and women in the Military
Technology Tuesday
~ We will doa short vowel sorting activity on SeeSaw.
Week of November 2 - 6
Language Arts
This week we will focus on moving our bodies in Unit 1 Week 5. Our essential question is "How does your body move?" We will look at our new vocabulary words - exercise, physical, agree, difficult and exhausted. We will continue to work on the skill of visualizing as we listen to stories. We will categorize sounds. Children will be introduced to r blends - cr, dr, fr, gr and tr. We will also look at s blends - sm, sn, sp, st, sw. We will focus on sentence structure - capital letters and endmarks. We will look at stories that share informational text and are written with a purpose. My friends will also be introduced to possession with 's.
High Frequency Words
jump, move, run, two
Spelling List 5
1. drip
2. drop
3. grab
4. grass
5. spill
6. spin
7. lot
8. hot
9. move
10. two
Bonus word
pumpkin
Math
We will start Chapter 4. We will focus on solving word problems and looking for information that we know and finding the information that we need to know. We will look for related math facts - problems with the same 3 numbers - 8-2=6, 8-6=2. We will be introduced to Fact Families - 4 problems with the same 3 numbers - 2 addition and 2 subtraction.
Religion
We will talk about Saints as we celebrate All Saint's Day. We will talk about Saints and how they help us grow closer to God. They set a good example for us to follow in life. We will take Chapter 4 test on Wednesday.
Technology Tuesday
We will do a Seesaw activity on voting.
** Reminder that Wed, Thurs and Fri are all 11:35 dismissal days. There is no lunch on half days unless your child attends Eagle's Club. We will have morning snack each day.
Week of October 26-30
Language Arts
we will focus on Unit 1 Week 4. Our essential question this week is "What do Friends like to do together?" We will talk about what it means to be a good friend. Our vocabulary words for the week are cooperate, relationship, chore, collect and deliver. We will work on categorizing sounds of words. The children will be introduced to short o sound and we will work on blending and building words with this sound. We will be introduced to putting words in ABC order. We will look at examples of nonfiction stories and fantasy. We will also work on identifying sentences aas asking or telling.
High Frequency Words - fun, make, they, too
Spelling List 4
1. hog
2. hop
3. hot
4. log
5. lot
6. top
7. flip
8. black
9. they
10. too
Bonus word
Halloween
Math
We will finish up Chapter 3 this week. We will continue to review subtraction facts and straegies to use for subtraction. We will look at what happens when we subtract zero from a number. My friends should all know the meaning of the word difference. We will take Chapter 3 test on Thursday.
Science
We will look at materials and what they are made of and used for this week. We will look for examples of glass, metal, wood and brick on our school campus. We will take a look at natural and manmade objects. We will also work on pumpkin experiments - if pumpkins sink or float, how many cubes tall our pumpkins are and we will make a pumpkin volcanoe!
Religion
We will talk about being kind to one another - even when it is not easy to do. We will talk about the word trust and how we trust in God at all times. We will take our Chapter 4 test on Thursday.
Social Studies/Scholastic News
We will talk about the voting process and will have the chance to vote on a Halloween movie to watch on Friday.
Week of October 19-23
Language Arts
This week we will focus on Unit 1 Week 3. Our essential question this week is "What makes a pet special?" We will brainstorm ways that we care for pets and our stories will center on pets. Some of our stories will be reality and some will be fantasy and some will be realistic fiction. Our vocabulary words for the week are - care, train, companion, groom and popular. We will work on identifying contrasting vowel sounds. We will take a look at singular nouns and making them plural by adding an s. We will be introduced to -l blends like bl, cl, fl, gl, sl, pl and we will work on blending words with these sounds. We will look at what makes a sentence - capital letters, complete ideas and endmarks.
High Frequency Words - be, come, good, pull
Spelling words
1. black
2. clip
3. flag
4. flip
5. plan
6. slip
7. win
8. sit
9. be
10. pull
Bonus word
October
Math
We will begin our chapter on Basic Subtraction facts. We will model whole parts and taking parts away from the whole. We will learn the meaning of the minus sign. We will model using our cubes. We will work on sloving Math subtraction word problems. We will review the word difference - the answer to a subtraction problem! Practice math facts from 10!!! They must master these facts!!
Religion
We will talk about ways to make others feel welcome and how we can welcome Jesus in to our hearts. We will listen to the story Zaccheus and we will talk about John the Baptist.
Science
We will talk about the design process and how to solve problems. We will continue to make observations and draw conclusions from our observations. We will use the design process to create a back scratcher and to perform our egg drop experiment.
Scholastic News
We will talk about the life cycle of a pumpkin and the parts of a pumpkin.
Week of October 13-16
Language Arts
This week we will focus on Unit 1 Week 2. Our essential question this week is "What is it like where you live?" We will look at our vocabulary words for the week - city, country, bored, feast, scurried. We will look at words with alliteration - same beginning sounds. Our short vowel sound for the week is the letter i and we will work on blending, writing and reading words with this sound. We will look at stories that are fantasy and realistic fantasy. We will use details from stories to answer questions about the story. We will continue to do daily writes in our journals where we focus on correct formation of sentences - capital letters, complete thoughts and endmarks. We will work in our Handwriting books and focus on proper letter formation and using our best first grade writing.
High Frequency Words - down, out, up, very
Spelling
1. pin
2. win
3. hit
4. sit
5. miss
6 kiss
7. nap
8. can
9. out
10. up
Math
We will review skills and concepts taught in Chapter 2. We will take Chapter 2 test on Tuesday.
We will begin our chapter on Basic Subtraction facts. We will model whole parts and taking parts away from the whole. We will learn the meaning of the minus sign. We will model using our cubes.
Religion
We will continue to talk about the Holy Family and how our families are similar and different from the Holy Family. We will take our Chapter 3 test on Thursday. We will focus on kindness and showing kindness in the classroom, on the playground and at home.
Science
We will take our Unit 1 Test on Wednesday.
Social Studies
We will talk about Community Helpers and focus in on Firefighters and how they keep us safe.
Week of October 5 - 9
Language Arts
This week we will start Unit 1 in our Reading Anthology. The chilren will receive two hard back readers to keep in their desk. We will discuss titles, authors and illustrators. We will use the skill of visualizing to create images of a story. We will continue to work on rhyming and syllables. We will be introduced to the short a sound and will spend all week building short a words by putting sounds together and blending sounds. We will work on phonemic awareness of identifying beginnig and ending sounds. We will look at the -ap, -an, -at word families. We will listen to a realistic fiction story and share details from the story. We will talk about using pictures as clues for a story.
We will also begin our handwriting book this week and really focus on proper letter formation and writing neatly.
High Frequency Words: does, not, school, what
Spelling words: 1. man 2. can 3. nap 4. tap 5. cat 6. hat 7. not 8. does
Math
We will discuss addition strategies that we can use to solve addition problems. We will practice using each strategy. We will look for key words in a word problem that tell us to add such as more, join, in all. We will work to find missing addends. We will work on addition of three numbers. We will review Chapter 2 skills for our test on Tuesday, October 13. Continue to review Math facts to 10 to help with mastery and quickness.
Religion
We will continue to discuss the Holy Family. We will learn that Joseph was the stepfather of Jesus. We will discuss the birthday of Jesus on Christmas. We will identify ways that our families are similar to the Holy Family. We will discuss kindness and ways to show kindness to others.
Science
We will discuss what an investigation is and how clue words like first, next and last tell us the order in which to perform an investigation. We will make hypothesis on what we think will happen and we will test our predictions by performing experiments of mixing colors and kicking balls with our right and left feet. We will review the inquiry skills and how we use our five senses to learn about the world around us. We will do an experiment using our sense of hearing.
Scholastic News
We will discuss signs of Fall and complete a graph showing the signs of Fall.
Social Studies
We will discuss Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America.
Week of September 28-October 2
Language Arts
We will complete our last week of Smart Start in preparation for diving into Unit 1 next week. We will focus on sentence structure - capital letters and endmarks. We will look at the pronoun I and practice using it in oral and written sentences. We will work on building words by putting sounds together. We will look at words with s blends - sn, st, sp. We will look at the letters - g,w,x,v,q,j, y, z and short u sound. We will listen for rhyming words and we will work on identifying the number of syllables in a word.
We will have another week of "practice" spelling to get us ready for our first list next week.
High Frequency Words
are, me, she, with, for, and, have , see, said, was
Math
We will start Chapter 2 where we will focus on adding 3 addends. We will look at number order and realize that the the order our numbers are in does not matter in addition. We will work on adding doubles and then adding doubles plus 1 (ex 3+3 = 6, 3 +4 = 7). We will work on finding strategies to help solve addition problems. Continue to work on addition facts to 10 to help children with Math Facts Mastery!
Religion
We will start Chapter 3 where we will learn that Jesus was a part of a family just like we are. His family was called "The Holy Family". God asked Mary to be the Mother of Jesus and Joseph is Jesus' stepfather, chosen by God. We will talk about why God chose Mary to be the Mother of His Son. We will talk about the fact that The Holy Family lived in Nazareth and did many of the same things that we do with our families also. We will discuss Guardian Angel day on October 2.
** Chapter 2 Assessment will be on Tuesday. Books will be sent home on Monday to review for the text.
Science
We will continue to use inquiry skills - observe, measure, predict, compare - to learn about the world around us. We will classify objects by observing how they are alike and different. We will graph our findings and use our graphs to answer questions about the information. We will do a Science experiment with two water bottles - a full and an empty one - and also with an orange and an apple. The children will complete a weather chart starting on Wednesday to record their observations.
Scholastic News
We will talk about Essential Workers and how they have cared for us during the last few months. We will say a prayer thanking God for them. We will create cards as a sign of appreciation.
Week of September 21-25
Language Arts
We will continue with our Smart Start review of kindergarten skills to get us reading ready!
We will focus on phonics - identifying beginning and ending sounds. We will continue to work on rhyming pairs and building words by changing beginning sounds. We will look at letters c, f, d,h and the short e sound. We will look at sentence structure - capital letters and endmarks. We will practice sounting out syllables to identify word parts for spelling readiness. We will look at examples of fiction and nonfiction of stories and using details from a story to retell the events of a story/
High Frequency Words
this, is, my, look, little, where, here, play, the, we
We will write daily in our journal to complete writing prompts. We will look at sentence structure - the beginning of a sentence, word spacing and endmarks.
Math
We will continue to review the definition of added and sum. We will work on identifying the parts that we are adding together to make a whole. We will use a number line to count on. We will look at related addition facts (2+3=5 and 3+2=5) to understand that in addition number order does not matter. We will use our ten frame cards and counters to solve word problems.
** Chapter 1 Assessment will be on Friday. A practice packet will be sent home on Tuesday for you to start to review. This is optional but a good way to practice the concepts that will be covered.
Religion
We will learn that God sent His only Son, Jesus, to us as a gift. We will talk about the Holy Trinity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We will understand that we are also a gift from God and must share our gifts with the world.
Science
We will review how we use our five sense to review the world around us. We will do an experiment with celery and our five senses. We will also observe what happens when we put celery in water with food coloring.
Scholastic News
We will look at the life cycle of an apple and different ways that we use apples. We will do a fun apple volcano experiment in Science and we will graph our favorite apples.
Week of September 14 - 18
Language Arts
This week we will do our first week of Smart Start to review some basic kindergarten skills and to assess where we are in terms of a starting point for first grade.
We will work on the concept of tracking from left to right. We will also listen to the Alphabet Song. We will focus on the letters and sounds of /m/, /s/, /a/, /p/ and /t/. We will blend these sounds and change beginning and ending sounds to make new words that rhyme. We will talk about fiction and non fiction and listen to an example of each.
We will talk about sentence structure and will look for capital letters to start a sentence and endmarks to end our thoughts.
High Frequency Words - go, a, has, I, like, do, to, you, he, can
Math
We will review basic addition of numbers to 10. We will look at addition as taking two small groups and putting them together to make one big group. The children will practice writing and reading addition sentences using + and = signs. The children will learn the vocabulary words addend (the numbers added together) and sum (the answer to an addition problem). We will use ten frame cards to model addition problems. Children will realize that problems can be related and that the order of the numbers does not matter - 3+2=5 or 2+3 = 5.
Religion
We will begin with Chapter 1 and talk about Creation. My friends will learn the definition of Bible and creation and we will look for examples of God's creation. We will talk about ways that we care for God's creation and will thank God for all of the people that help us to grow in God's love. Our number one rule this year is to BE KIND so we will always focus on ways we can show kindness to others.
Science
We will begin with Unit 1 and will be discussing our five senses and how we use each of our senses to learn more about the world around us. We will descibe objects using each of our senses. We will also talk about Science tools - rulers, scales, thermometers - and how we use them to leanr more about objects.
Scholastic News
We will talk about community helpers and how we can help in our home and school communities.