Unit 5 Week 2
In our Treasure Chest Curriculum
This week my Kindergarten students
will read The Little Tree about Nick and Kim and what
they did to grow a new
tree.
We will practice their new sight words
for
Unit 8
which are
said
little
I
Concepts taught this week will be position words middle and top
and the k and ck sound usually found at the end of a word.
We will also focus on good comprehension
and
identify the sequence of events in a game
and stories.
First Grade will read the story Teddy
Saves the Day. It is a fantasy that discusses problems
that toys have and what a Teddy Bear does to help them. We will use a
Problems Solution Chart to retell the story and evaluate the
problems and solutions that were
discussed in the story.
We will look at root words
such as push and pull and add ed and ing to
them.
We will also review long i sounds in words such as fly, child, and
high.
Then we will continue to discuss and understand when to use er and est
to
adjectives. We will review that er
is added to an adjective when we are comparing two things and est is used when we are comparing
more than two things. Last our literacy activity this week will be to
write
our opinion and tell a friend whether
they should read or not read
Teddy Saves the Day.
Sight words are
ball
head
should
shout
Second Grade will read a play called Sky Colors. It takes place
long ago (setting) when the sky was either black or white.
The sky was
envious of the blue jay, red squirrel, yellow lizard and orange frog
and wanted to have some color too.
All the animals tried to help the sky but only the blue jay could fly
high enough and spread its beautiful blue feathers across the sky. Then
sky asked sun to help too and that is why the other colors shine on the
sky.
My students always enjoy have a part in the play.
Our vocabulary skills this week will focus on root words and we will
determine
if the word endings to root words in sentences should be ed or
ing.
We also practiced saying and finding the diphthongs oi and oy in words.
Then we will evaluate problems
and solutions in the story. Next
we
will learn about pronouns and when we
should use I, me, we and
us.
Last we will make a color word web.
Sight words are
beautiful
for
have
try
Third Grade will learn about the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals when they read Henry Bergh and
the ASPCA.
We will learn about the treatment of animals in the 1800's and how
Henry
Bergh becomes a leader in changing the deplorable conditions. He will
learn that he started
clinics and built shelters for animals. He also helped form
another organization called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children which drew attention to the children working in mines
and factories at that time. Since he began his legacy now most children
in the US can play, go to school and be treated well.
Our vocabulary skills this week will be finding root words in word
families and adding inflected endings like s, ed and ing to root
words.
We will then identify cause and effect
in stories
and write subject and object pronouns to replace nouns.
Last we will play a game and make as many compound
words as possible.
Fourth Grade will also read a play called Hans and
Greta. This play always reminds me of Hansel and Gretle but it
has a
twist. The play characters are a talking cat, a grandma in a
gingerbread house and two children whose step-mother and father send
them to visit their grandma. We find the cat and the children
playing tricks on one another at Grandma's house while the
unsuspecting Grandma makes plans for the day. They all learn a
lesson but later we see the children plotting
another
trick for when they will see the cat again!
Antonyms will be our vocabulary lesson this
week. It is a word
that
is the opposite of another word. We will review our antonym song
and
then we will discuss judgments.
We will learn that a
judgment is an
opinion about a character, action or idea. Last we will learn
that
there are special adjectives called articles.
a, the, an
We will learn when to use which article in a sentence.
Fifth Grade will read Food Fight. It is another
fantasy story, only this time it involves a grocery store that comes to
life after the owners close the doors to go home. The milk and dairy
section are jealous of the produce (apples, carrots etc.) in the
front of the store and the milk tries to move up there only to find a
problem in their thinking.
Personification
was the method used to
tell the story. All the groceries talk!
Ask your children what the other groceries' reactions
are and the effect it has on the store. Also ask them who they
think will be blamed for the mess.
Our phonics and vocabulary lessons will focus on word origins and homophones.
We will then discuss themes and analyze paragraph
themes.
Last we will discuss articles in sentences
and why we sometimes use
an
instead of
the or a.
We will learn that we use an
before a noun if the noun begins with a vowel.
(a,e,i,o,u)
example: an octopus