Peek at the Week

This week in...

Reading:

We are finishing up our first reading unit. This week we will cover:

- Question of the week: "How do machines help people work?"
- Oral Vocab: scooping, swooshing, squelching, gobbling, spinning, rubbling
- Initial and final /t/ sound
- Review initial and final /m/ sound
- Sight words: a, to
- Listening Comprehension: Classify and Categorize, review setting
- Readers Workshop book: Dig Dig Digging
- Nouns for places and things
- Writing: Writing process

Common Core Standards We will Cover:
      - Foundational Skills 2.e; 2.c; 3.a
      - Informational Text 7
      - Language 5.a
      - Speaking/Listening: 1.a; 4
      - Writing 3; 5
      - Language 1; 1.b

Math:

- Unit 2: Comparing and ordering 0-5
- Vocab: more, fewer, same as, same number of, column, row, 1 more than, 2 more than
- More, fewer, and same as
- Partner Game: "Win with Five"
- 1 and 2 more
- Partner Game: "Try Together"
- 1 and 2 fewer
- Partner Game: "Helping Hands"
- Math journal- problem solving addition and subtraction

- Students will each receive their own calendar binder! In October:
     - Fill in the calendar
      - Graph the letters in our names
      - Tally Marks
      - Fill in the days in school
      - Weather graph
      - Zero the hero
      - Birthday graph

Common Core Standards we will cover:
      - K.CC.6 (curriculum)
      - K.CC.3 (curriculum)
      - K.OA.1 (math journal)
      - K.MD.3 (calendar)

Seasonal
- Bats, Owls, Spiders

Religion:

- Mass Monday
- God Gives Us Light