Literacy unit: Plants Continued……
Reading: Students will listen to a story called Seed Secrets. It is an informational piece that discusses the travels of a seed. Students will also listen to other stories about plants. Students will discuss and identify the life cycle of a plant.
Comprehension Strategy: Retell and identifying story structure
Writing: Student will write 2 sentences or more discussing using adjectives (describing words) how seeds travel. Student will use the important parts of making a good sentence. This includes:
- Does your idea make sense?
- Does your sentence begin with a capital letter?
- Do you have space between the words?
- Did you use an end mark (punctuation)?
- Are all sight words (the ones we learned so far) spelled correctly?
Word Family: -ug (bug, tug, mug, hug, jug, slug, plug)
Spelling: seeds, here, was, tug, rug, mug, hug, bug
Math: We will explore the quarter. We will write numbers 1-100. We will continue to count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100. We will revisit simple addition and subtraction. We will play many math games to reinforce our math skills.
Science: We will continue to explore plant needs. Last week we planted a seed and we have a couple of sprouts! Students will observe and document our experience of growing a plant. We will make sure we identify it is a living thing and further discuss that living things have needs to survive.
Social Studies: We will start talking about taking care of the Earth and its value. We will discuss what we get from the earth and how plants help us survive.
REMINDERS:
Wednesday: Library check out day
Thursday: Pocket list : 5 foods you would eat while camping.
Friday: Turn in your last reading minutes. (we are trying to reach our 200,000 school-wide minutes goal!
Running low on snacks! Thanks for all your support!
Ms. Mohamed