n math this week, I will be giving students a post assessment on our current unit This will be a grade. Students need to know how to count to 40 by 1’s and 10’s, count on from a number, write their numbers 0-21, how to count objects using our counting strategies, know that a group of objects is the same number if it is rearranged without adding or taking away any cubes, one more and one less, and sorting by color and counting how many objects are in each set.
Please make sure students practice counting by 1’s and 10’s to 100 every night if needed. For students who have mastered this standard, you can practice counting by 1’s to 200 and/or skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, etc. Here are the standards we will focus on for our next unit after Thanksgiving Break: MGSEK.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens. MGSEK.CC.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions. MGSEK.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies. MGSEK.CC.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals. MGSEK.NBT.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones to understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8). MGSE1.NBT.7 Identify dimes and understand ten pennies can be thought of as a dime. (Use dimes as manipulatives in multiple mathematical contexts.) MGSEK.MD.3 Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. In ELA, we will continue with our Lucy Calkins reading and writing units of study. In reading, we will continue our new unit on “Superpowers!” We will discuss how partners an sit side-by-side, one book or poem or song will go in the middle, and they will take turns reading and pointing making sure to focus on making their pointing match what they are reading. As students are reading, we will go over how they need to make sure that when they get stuck or into some trouble they use ALL their strategies to help them get unstuck. Some strategies they will be using include: pointer power, reread power, partner power and picture power. We will also practice using picture power and add how they can also look closely at the letters in the word and think about the sounds they make to figure out what the word is. Students will also work hard to learn new words as they read by using the “How to Learn a Word” process: •Read the Word •Study the Word •Spell the Word •Write the Word •Use the Word In phonics, we will be discussing the letters “Vv,” “Xx,” and “ Zz.” For shared reading, we will read a book about helping others not only during this time of year, but all year. We will also read a poem about being thankful and a silly turkey poem. In writing, we will be finishing up our “Show and Tell” unit. Students will have a post assessment on Monday and Tuesday. They will choose an object or a place to show and tell about and use all that they learned: labels and details in their pictures and words, writing a sentence, etc. We will also begin our narrative stories (true stories). We will talk about getting ideas from stories and practice storytelling, planning stories page by page, and adding more details to pictures and stories. In social studies, we will be talking about gratitude all week. Each day, students will think of something they are thankful for in the following areas:friends, skills and talent, something at home, a book, and a freedom. Our “Cookies for Character” learner profile word this month is “reflective.” We will be reading the story, “Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse” and discuss how this book represents reflection. In math this week, I will be giving students a formative assessment on counting from 1-40 and writing their numbers 1-20. This will be a grade. I will also pre assess students on our next unit- continued counting. Please see below for the standards in our next unit that we will talk about next week but officially begin after Thanksgiving break.
Please make sure students practice counting by 1’s and 10’s to 100 every night if needed. For students who have mastered this standard, you can practice counting by 1’s to 200 and/or skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, etc. Here are the standards we will focus on for this unit: MGSEK.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens. MGSEK.CC.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions. MGSEK.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies. MGSEK.CC.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals. MGSEK.NBT.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones to understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8). MGSE1.NBT.7 Identify dimes and understand ten pennies can be thought of as a dime. (Use dimes as manipulatives in multiple mathematical contexts.) MGSEK.MD.3 Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. In ELA, we will continue with our Lucy Calkins reading and writing units of study. In reading, we will begin our new unit on “Superpowers!” This is my absolute favorite unit as students learn about different superpowers to help them read. This week, we will focus on “Pointer power in which students put their finger, popsicle stick, pencil, etc. under each word as they are reading to make sure they don’t leave out or add any words. When talking about pointer power, we will discuss how readers don’t let longer words slow them down: every word gets one tap. We will also use “Snap word Power” (snap words are the same thing as sight words) in which we identify our sight words in a snap! We will be reading the story “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” to help us with these two powers. We will even read “Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do you Hear?” and “Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do you See?” to help reinforce these concepts. In phonics, we will be discussing the digraph “wh” and the letter Yy. For shared reading, we will be reading a book about signs all around us as symbols, a poem about Veteran’s Day, and a book about our current season, Fall. In writing, we will be finishing up our “Show and Tell” unit. We will be reviewing/working on finger spaces in between words, expanding and adding more sentences, how to end our books, and celebrate the end of this unit. For this celebration, students will get to share their books that they have worked so hard on! On Friday, students will have a narrative writing pre assessment. They will be writing about a “small moment” in which they did something. In social studies, we will continue our unit on Symbols. We will have some fun with Microsoft Teams symbols that students were using earlier in the year and we will also talk about symbols that tell us information about positive behavior. We will also read a book on the American Flag and working on making text to text connections, text to world connections, and text to self connections. Remote students will be getting a separate email with remote plans and any necessary attachments. |
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April 2021
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