Unit 5 Week 1
This week my Kindergarten students will read
What Can You Do? It is a story about how weather effects us.
We will sing a song with many "l" words and review the sound of "l" and learn many words that begin with "l". Next we will discuss the difference between fantasy and reality, draw and write what we like to do in the rain, check our comprehension and look at sentence frames.
First Graders will read Hopscotch Daydream which features a painting from long ago and so we will discuss daydreams, night dreams and
Fantasy and Reality.
We will learn new vocabulary words, discuss how to pronounce words with the oo, oa and ow sounds and begin to realize that adjectives make a noun more interesting because adjectives describe nouns.
Sight words this week are
"always, father, love, mother"
Second Grade will read about the
Sonoran Desert Animals.
We will learn that this particular desert has more rain than most deserts and it covers Mexico and parts of California and Arizona.
The book discusses many types of desert animals and their predators. The author believes this desert is special because of the variety of arachnids, poisonous snakes, reptiles and birds.
We will discuss possessive nouns, ou, ow sounds, author's purpose and pronouns.
Sight words are
any
find
many
when
Third Graders will read an Informational Nonfiction book called Children at Work:
Colonial America. They will learn all about Apprentice laborers and how people during colonial times learned a trade.
We will compare what is was like in olden times to what it is like today. We will learn new compound words like silversmith and discuss sequence of events. Singular and plural pronouns will be our final topic for the week.
We will discuss the difference between connotation and denotation. We will also practice dividing vc/vc syllables like pic/ture. Next we will continue to improve summarizing and working on adjectives.
Fifth Grade will read Animals of the Poles.
It discusses how the animals of the north and south pole survive the icy climate. We will discuss each problem and the ways each animal has adapted to solve the problem.
This week we will work on word parts and base words with affixes. Affixes is a word part added to the beginning or end of a base word. Some affixes are er, ist, ful and ed. We will also review soft g hard g words. Then we will learn that often stories are written about problems which is something a person needs to fix and then the author offers a solution which is a way to fix a problem.
Last we will review adjectives which are words that describes a noun. Then we will learn about demonstrative adjectives that tell if a noun is singular or plural and how far away it is Demonstrative adjectives are these, those, that and this.
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As always if you click on the Treasure Chest box on my web site it will have the past units, concepts taught and sight words under the light bulbs.