Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Unit 5, Week 5 - On the Move!
This week our Focus Story will be On the Move! by Donna Latham. This story uses rhyming to describe the many means by which people around the world move from place to place.
Our Target Skill this week is identifying the main idea of a story. We will also continue to practice making predictions, retelling a story, and determining the causes and effects of certain events in a story. Noun recognition and identification will be reviewed as well. We will work to identify, form, and match the letters 'Vv' and 'Zz' to their phonemes--/v/ and /z/, respectively.
Amazing Words: travel, kayak, llama, dogsled, double-decker bus, submarine
High-Frequency Words: where, come (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)
Letters: Vv and Zz
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Unit 5, Week 4 - The Little Engine That Could
This week our Focus Story will be The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. This story is a classic, and is a wonderful means by which to teach children about optimism and the good things that can come as a result of hard work. In this story, a long train must be pulled over the mountain as it has toys and treats for the children there. The dolls and toys try unsuccessfully to find an engine willing to pull their train over the mountain. Finally, a little blue engine (the smallest of them all) decides that she will try to help, and with some hard work and encouragement is successful.
Our Target Skill this week will be learning to identify the plot of a story. We will also continue to practice making predictions, retelling a story, and identifying the characters in a story. We will again focus on learning to identify, form, and match the letter 'Uu' to its phoneme--/u/. This week we will focus on the long vowel sound.
Amazing Words: engine, tracks, passenger, roundhouse, mountain, valley
High-Frequency Words: what, said, was (Please continue to practice all of our "Popcorn Words" at home!)
Letter: Uu
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
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