Week 17- Lesson Plans

Sight Words:
have, jump, not, run

Reading Skill:
Shared Reading/Read Aloud- Sequencing the story from beginning to end
Guided Reading/Independent Reading- Stretchy Snake: stretch out the words to hear each letter sound.

Math Skills:
Recognizing teen numerals
Comparing greater than, less than, and equal to.

Writing Workshop:
Write How To books- sequencing the details

Social Studies:
Christmas traditions around the world: We will compare how we celebrate Christmas to other children around the world.

Skills to Work on at Home

• Practice Sight words- have, jump, run, not.
• You  can write words in rainbow colors, find the words in magazines, write sentences using the words, or find the words in your 100 B.C. books
• Practice recognizing teen numerals
• You can make flash cards to help with this skill.
• Be sure to check our blog daily for posts on our Christmas Around the World unit to help lead conversations about what your child is learning at school.

How to Make Fruit Salad

This week, we are learning all about how to write "How To" books. We started our writing unit by making yummy fruit salad. We wrote our steps as a class during the process.

We learned how important it is to add details in our "how to" books...

We need to peel and cut the bananas before adding them! 

Our fruit salad recipe was delicious. Our students wanted to make it at home, so we wrote a fruit salad recipe book. 

 

For your enjoyment...

Our Five Senses

We started our unit by reading this book.

We discussed our Five senses and the importance of having senses. 

Today, the students participated in an activity where they were blind-folded and had to navigate their way outside, with help of a partner. 

After spending a few minutes without our sense of seeing, the students described their experiences with each other. 

Here are two responses from our friends. 

Fun With Math!

Here are a few pictures from our math workshop today.

Lots of fun math activities happening! We love integrating Christmas in math! 

Thanksgiving Break

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I enjoyed spending time with my family, decorating for Christmas, enjoying a Gamecock victory, and shopping. Here are a few reflections of our boys' and girls' Thanksgiving.

Lily went to her grandma's house. 

Abby enjoyed time with her dad. 

Matthew put up his Christmas trees. 

Colten had a feast. 

Great writing and great Thanksgiving memories! 

300 Steps!

Look at these awesome readers who have reached 300 steps!!!! Congrats to Matthew, Colten, Caleigh, and Alliyah!

A Pilgrim's Home

Before Thanksgiving, we learned a lot of information on Pilgrims and Native Americans. We know that the Pilgrims sailed the seas for over 2 months to come to The New World that they named Plymouth Rock. The first types of homes they built were called Common Houses made with logs and straw. We built a model of the Common House for our reading center.

Construction! (Organized chaos!)

Our Common House