Unit 4: Week 2 Foods- What’s for Dinner?
Reading: We will be reading: Our Special Sweet Potato Pie; Juan and the cooking pot; Grandfather bear is hungry;
Poems: Crunch, Munch! Thanks a bunch; Crusty Corn Bread
Strategies:
- Self to text connections- This story reminds me of ____
- Review: Retell a story in sequence
- Rhymes- Recognize and produce words that rhyme
- noun-person place or thing: mom, dad, store, park, pencil, dog etc.
- verb- action words: run, jump, walk, read, listen, talk etc
- blend and segment 3 letter words-CVC: big, bag, top, tip, run, ran, fat, fan etc.
- Identify short vowels a,e,i,o, u
- Identify words that have long vowels: a,e,i,o (u coming up next week)
Sight words: look, make, will
Phonics: long i, long o
Writing: We will be writing a narrative about a time we went to a restaurant. We will practice with all the same sentence in the beginning: “One time, I went to a restaurant.” Then, we will follow that sentence with “I ate __.” Your child will be expected to inventive spell the food they ate.
One time, I went to a restaurant. I ate __. I ate__.
Math: We will be reviewing subtraction using pictures, story problems, simple subtraction and simple addition. We will also check for quick write of numbers 0-20, quick draw of how many, quick check of greater and less than using pictures and numbers.
Science: We will explore the warming effects of the sun. Your child will be in a group sketching out a plan on what they can build a structure with materials in the class. Then your child will have to build the structure.
Social Studies: I will be individually testing your child’s knowledge on:
- needs
- wants
- goods
- services
- trade
- ways to learn about the past
I will also be testing NWEA-Reading this Wednesday. I will also be checking your child’s reading level. Therefore, there will be no reading groups for the this week and next week- so no new books.
Any questions or concerns, please email me and I will be glad to set up an appointment. Have a fantastic week!
Ms. Mohamed