Peek at the Week

We have had SO much fun with reindeers this past week! We are sad to see them  go... but excited to start a Santa/Christmas unit!

 

 

 

This week in:

 

Reading:

 

-Oral Vocabulary: celebration, sprinted, barn, blacksmith, arch, soldier

- Initial Dd

- Initial Kk

- Sight words: see, look

- Comprehension: Cause and Effect

- Big Book: George Washington Visits

- Verbs that add -s

 

Math:

 

1 Fewer: Children will use counting to identify a number that is 1 fewer than another number.

 

 

2 More: Use counting to identify a number that is 2 more than another number.

 

2 fewer: Use counting to identify a number that is 2 fewer than another number

 

Ordering numbers through 10: order numbers from 0 through ten in sequence

 

Common Core Standards we will cover:

 

K.CC.2

K.CC.6

K.CC.7

K.OA.1

 

Religion:

 

Christmas/Advent

 

Seasonal:

 

Santa/Ho Ho Ho

Christmas party with reading buddies



B&N Bookfait

The Barnes 'n Noble bookfair is on Thursday! It would be wonderful to have everyone there from 4:00-4:30 to sing with Mr. Barrios and the kindergarten.

 

Some books we could use for our classroom:

 

*Advent Storybook: 24 stories to share before Christmas by Antoine Schneider

*Making the Most of Small Groups by Debbie Diller

*Christmas Is... by Gail Gibbons

*Pete the Cat Saves Christmas by Eric Litwin

*Randolph Saves Christmas by Lark Wilson

 

On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen

You guessed it! Our theme this week is reindeer. We will also continue with Advent (the reason for the season).

 

A peek at our week:

 

This week in reading:

 

Practice with initial/ending /r/ sound

sight words: me, with, she

Concept Vocab: duckling, pond, puddle, plunged, proud, brave

Readers workshop story: Little Quack
Readers workshop: plot

Practice with nouns, adjectives, verbs

Blending with three and four letter words

Writers workshop: editing

 

Thematic:

Reindeer application

Reindeer stories

 

Math:

 

Comparing numbers to 5

Game: Cover the path

Comparing numbers to 10

Game: greater than or less than?

Game: Cover 9

1 More

Game: Cover three

1 Fewer

 

 

On Monday we made Advent wreaths with our mass buddies.

 

 

Peek at the Week

This week in...

Reading:
We will begin Unit 3
Phonemic Awareness: Bb
Sight words: me, with, she
Readers Workshop story: Little Panda
Comprehension: compare and contrast; review main idea
Writers workshop: summary
Verbs

Common core state standards we will cover:
CCSS Reading 2,3
CCSS Language 3
CCSS Speaking/listening 1,2
CCSS writing 2

Math:
Counting 10: use objects to represent and count the number 10
Vocabulary: ten
Reading and writing 10
Problem solving: Look for a pattern : solve problems by identifying growing patterns and predicting what comes next
Vocab: growing patterns 
Begin Topic 4
Comparing numbers through ten: compare two numbers using sets of objects and one to one correspondence to determine which number is greater And which is less
Vocabulary: greater; less

Standards we will cover: 
K.cc.4c
K.cc.6
K.cc.7

Religion:
Advent wreaths with our mass buddies

Thanksgiving Fun!!

We had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving! We created an "I am thankful for..." class book, made a turkey syllable sort book,  added a turkey handprint poem to our memory books, and learned a turkey poem. More turkey fun pictures to come!

Thanksgiving Center Day

A huge thank you to the parents who volunteered and donated items! We couldn't have done it without you! Our next center day will be in just a few short weeks to celebrate Christmas.

Pilgrims, turkey cookies, thanksgiving story necklaces, indian vests, turkey headbands!

Next up... Advent!

Peek at the Week

It's the last week before Thanksgiving break! Wednesday is our Thanksgiving center day. We will finish Unit 2 in our reading series this week and will begin unit 3 when we come back. This week we will continue learning about the first Thanksgiving.

This week in...

Reading:

Oral Vocabulary: beanstalk, lad, ogre, magic, naughty, lend
Phonemic Awareness: Review short i and short a
Sight words: he, for
Comprehension: realism and fantasy, review sequence
Readers Workshop: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Review adjectives
Writing: Writing process; Plan a story, draft, revise, edit, share
Writing: I am thankful for... ; Journey on the Mayflower

Standards we will cover:

Foundational Skills 1.b, 2.d, 2.e, 2.c, 3
Literature 2, 3, 5
Writing 3, 5, 7
Language 5, 5.c

Peek at the Week

This week in...

Reading:

Phonemic Awareness: beginning and medial /i/ sound
Blending words with short a and short i
Sight words: he, for
Readers Workshop: A Bed For Winter
Comprehension: sequence
Conventions: adjectives for opposites
Writing: using uppercase and lowercase letters and finger spaces 

Math:

Begin Topic 3
Counting 6 and 7
Reading and writing 6 and 7
Counting 8 and 9
Reading and writing 8 and 9
Pumpkin Bingo
November calendar skills: writing the date, graphing name syllables, daily domino, weather graph
Comparing more and less
Ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth. Fifth)

Social Studies:

All about the first thanksgiving

Science:

Finish up pumpkin experiment 

Pumpkins and Halloween

Last week was filled with activities! The reading buddy party, Halloween centers, trick-or-treating, 50th Day of School and All Saints Day left the students (and teachers) begging for the weekend on Friday!

We started the week by making spider cupcakes with Mrs. Garner!

Then we had our Halloween Reading Buddy party with our 4th Grade Reading Buddies!

Pumpkin Unit

We have been learning about pumpkins the last two weeks. 

This is our bubble map of pumpkin adjectives

We finished up our pumpkin unit by opening our pumpkin and counting the seeds. Before we counted the seeds, each student gave an estimate as to how many seeds they thought would be in the pumpkin. We counted the seeds by 10s. There were 366 pumpkin seeds in our pumpkin!

Avery had the closest estimation.. she estimated 350 seeds in the pumpkin!