Monday, November 29, 2010

Letter Rr

Science- Exploring water- Sink and Float
ELAR- Poetry, Poem and Rhyme. Itsy Bitsy Spider finger play. Students will generate ideas for a peom. Creating Couplet poems.
ELAR- Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer! Reviewing character, main event and setting. Inferencing. Big Idea of the story!!Sceince- Exploring Water!



Social Studies- Needs and Wants


Math- Graphing. Vocab- vertical, horizontal, rows and columns.



Monday, November 15, 2010

Letter Ff


This week in science we will be learning all about rocks!
Sequencing the farm animals 1-15


This week in Math we are studying parts of a whole and creating 10. In this Turkey lesson we will have 2 turkeys. We will put 1 feather on one turkey then try to determine how many feathers need to be on the 2nd turkey to make 10 feathers all together! Then we will try different numbers!



Frogs and lily pads. Finding parts of a whole for the number 10.







Farm Station



In ELAR we will be doing some writing with sentences like: I am little. I can_____. Then, I am big. I can______.



We will also be determining the main characters, setting and main event of the story. Using these story boards they can draw pics of each of the elements of the story.



Monday, November 8, 2010

Spaceship- Creating words with the letters we have learned so far!
Science- Exploring the contents of soil

Social Studies- Celebrations and symbols of our local community Dublin

Star sight words game- our new sight words for the 3rd 6 weeks are...
me with she see look they you of

Space PIP dots! We will match the Spacemen to the matching spaceship PIP dot.


Roll a Turkey

Math-this week we will doing activities that have to do with the vocab more than/less than. We will do various activities all week to re-enforce this. In this activity- We will roll the dice for one shark and whatever # the child rolls is how many fish the shark will eat. Then they will do the same for the next shark. Then we will compare which shark has more/less fish!


Snake counting- Create an AB pattern and put the snake in numerical order!
In ELAR this week we will be exploring verbs, writing from brainstorming to rough draft, discuss different books and whether they are meant to entertain or inform, and determining the main idea of a story.


Monday, November 1, 2010

Letter Ii

Igloo writing station
Science - parts of a plant

Leaf rubbing

Parts of a Plant project

Inch-Worm sentences

ELAR- Bear Snores on... Vocabulary: Sleep, winter, cave, woods, storm and blustery. Talk about hibernation. Also, comparing Text to Text... Text to Self... and Text to World


Ice cream color game

Making our own Ice Cream!!!



Math- Game... how many scoops


Sorting the Insects by attributes
Roll the dice and whatever # it lands on is how many Insect stickers we will put on the row