Room 104 Families,
Sight Words: We have completed our sight words and will spend the rest of the year reviewing. Please continue to review at home.
Previous Sight Words: I, like, see, the, is, little, big, a, to, we, can, be, and, look, at, my, you, are, for, am, in, on, no, it, this, said, run, do, want, play, yes, was, if, would, come, have, me, went, with, help, he, she, go, they, up, of, what, now, love, how, here, one, find, two, too, will, three, out, some, down, by, all, four, because, make, but, as, five, good, that, very, let, any, them, mother, father, us, brother, sister, eat, home, away, from, first, after, again, could, six, seven, please, friend
Previous Letters: Kk, Pp, Jj, Hh, Ff, Tt, Ii, Gg, Mm, Cc, Ww, Aa, Ss, Bb, Vv, Oo, Dd, Rr, Qq, Uu, Xx, Ee, Ll, Nn, Yy, Zz
Theme: Our theme this week is dinosaurs
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Read Terrible Tyrannosaurs then students will build their own dinosaur with marshmallows and toothpicks
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Read Dinosaurs are Different and learn about carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores
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Read What Happened to the Dinosaurs and complete a dinosaur glyph
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Read Dinosaur Babies and compare our teeth to dinosaur teeth
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Pretend to be a Paleontologist and dig for chocolate chips in cookies, then compare the number actually in the cookie to the number predicted before
Journals:
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Listen to many fiction books about dinosaurs/with dinosaur characters before writing
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Independent Journals
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I Dreamed About a Dinosaur!
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Dinosaur Sequencing and writing
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Our phonics lessons this week will focus on short /o/ in the middle of cvc words, homophones, homonyms, and chopping out cvc words
Math:
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What My Rule with Patterns? with dinosaur patterns
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Numbers in Sequence
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Dinosaur Measuring and Subtracting
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Ones, Tens, Hundreds Game
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Bead String Name Collection
Literacy/Literacy Centers:
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Writing Center: A Great Story pick a prompt and Baby Dinosaur pick a prompt
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Art Center: Make a dinosaur
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Math Center: Making shapes on geoboards
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Listening Center: Listen to Frog and Toad Together
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ABC Center: Word Family Eggs
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Read Around the Room: Students will find words that have short /o/ in the middle of cvc pattern words.
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For our Journeys curriculum we will read a story called Look at Us!. Our goals this week are Main Ideas/Details and Questioningt
Social Studies:
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Models and Maps
Reminders:
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Remember to keep checking the Things To Be Working On At Home link to above.
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There will be no more homework this school year. Continue to read 20 minutes a night and practice sight words, numbers, and writing.
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Wish List: glue sticks, gallon size ziplock bags, disinfectant wipes.
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We will have a University of Chicago Senior Volunteer Event on Tuesday morning where the volunteers will teach us a lesson about cooking/nutrition.
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The last day of school is Monday, June 24 and it is a full day. There will be an all school picnic that day! More details to come.
Ms. Maltz