THE SEEDS OF LEARNING
*Math: Investigating Addition
-Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
*Reading/English Language Arts:
-Story of the Week: Just Going to the Dentist by Mercer Mayer
*Focus Skills: Predict, Infer, Connect, Retell
-Read Together: Book - The Napping House, Mentor Sentence - There is a house.
*Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Rhyming, Fluency
-Phonics Focus: Letter Yy
-Sight Words: of, be, good, did
*Writing: Information: How-To Books: Writing to Teach Others
*Review
-Studying the kind of writing we plan to make
-Using what we already know
-Answering a partner's questions
-Labeling diagrams to teach more information
*Science: Day & Night
-Ask questions to classify objects according to those seen in the day sky, the night sky, and both.
-Develop a model to communicate the changes that occur in the sky during the day, as day turns into night, during the night, and as night turns into day using pictures and words.
-Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
*Reading/English Language Arts:
-Story of the Week: Just Going to the Dentist by Mercer Mayer
*Focus Skills: Predict, Infer, Connect, Retell
-Read Together: Book - The Napping House, Mentor Sentence - There is a house.
*Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Rhyming, Fluency
-Phonics Focus: Letter Yy
-Sight Words: of, be, good, did
*Writing: Information: How-To Books: Writing to Teach Others
*Review
-Studying the kind of writing we plan to make
-Using what we already know
-Answering a partner's questions
-Labeling diagrams to teach more information
*Science: Day & Night
-Ask questions to classify objects according to those seen in the day sky, the night sky, and both.
-Develop a model to communicate the changes that occur in the sky during the day, as day turns into night, during the night, and as night turns into day using pictures and words.
IMPORTANT DATES
*Monday, February 25th
Field Trip Permission Forms Due
*Friday, March 1st
STEM Day!