The Week of December 18, 2017

Group 1

Spelling words:on, got, fox, pop, not, hop
Vocabulary words:her, she, now, today, our, would
Student will practice to blend  words with short o and  consonants l blends 
Read the story Hit It and answer the questions in the Write in Reader.
Practice vocabulary words flash cards.
Preview the topic Music and discuss the different ways we can make music.Read the Realistic Fiction A musical Day and discuss the importance of music in our every day life.Practice kinds of sentences.
Writing: If I were Santa
Group 2
Spelling words: closed, hoping, baked, hiding, standing, asked, skating, teasing, knocking,feeding
vocabulary: tunnel, curled, height, direction, toward, healed, brag, tease
Model and practice  to blend and decode regularly spelled words with endings -ed, -ing
Read the story Tortoise gets a Home in write in  Reader and answer the questions in the stop think and write section.
Practice to add -s to present tense verbs.
We will discuss that traditional tales are stories that people have been telling for many years.And the characters in the story usually learn a lesson.ow the characters speak and act like real people and the importance of not teasing others.We will write  note to the brown squirrel telling how you feel about teasing others.
Review present tense nouns.
review how to identify the kids of nouns in sentences.
Writing: If I were Santa
Wednesday:
Spelling words: closed, hoping, baked, hiding, standing, asked, skating, teasing, knocking,feeding
vocabulary: tunnel, curled, height, direction, toward, healed, brag, tease
Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Read the folk Tale Why Rabbits Have Short tails and discuss the moral it teaches. We will compare the lessons /morals from both the folktales.Read the decodable reader Maybe So and review the high frequency words.
Review synonyms.
Writing: If I were SantaGroup 3-
Spelling words:knife, stretch, write, knew, knock, match, wrong,scrub, strong,throw bonus:knuckle,scramble
Vocabulary words:harvest, separate,ashamed, borders, advice, borrow, patch, serious
Students will learn to Decode, read, spell multi syllable  irregularly spelled words with silent letters kn, wr.
Practice spelling and vocabulary words and their  meanings.
Reread the folktale harvest birds and list the events that happend in the story and answer the questions in the Spb Pages: 105, 106
Review using context clues to find the meanings of words in sentences w/s 109
Read the leveled reader Dear Diary note the important details that we can draw conclusions from.
Writing: If I were Santa.

The Week of December 11, 2017

Group 1


Spelling words:in, will, did, sit, six, big
Vocabulary words: animal, of, how, some, make, why
Student will practice to blend  words with short i and  consonants r blends 
Read the story Tell Cat and answer the questions in the Write in Reader.
Practice vocabulary words flash cards.
Preview the topic Animal Communication and discuss different ways animals can communicate.Read the informational text Animals Communicate and will discuss picture of the animals that tells about the way they communicate.
Practice to use commas in series.
Group 2
Spelling words: liked, using, riding, chased, spilled, making, raked,tasted,hiking,started
vocabulary: tunnel, curled, height, direction, toward, healed, brag, tease
Model and practice  to blend and decode regularly spelled words with endings -ed, -ing
Read the story Tortoise gets a Home in write in  Reader and answer the questions in the stop think and write section.
Practice to add -s to present tense verbs.
We will discuss that traditional tales are stories that people have been telling for many years.And the characters in the story usually learn a lesson.We will read the Folk Tale How Chipmunk Got His Stripes . We will discuss how the characters speak and act like real people.

Group 3-
Spelling words: itch, wreck, knee, patch, wrap, knot, watch, scream, thrill,street Bonus:wrinkle,straight
Vocabulary words:harvest, separate,ashamed, borders, advice, borrow, patch, serious
Students will learn to Decode, read, spell multi syllable  irregularly spelled words with silent letters kn, wr.
Practice spelling and vocabulary words and their  meanings.
Read the informational text Livings Things Are Linked in Write-in Reader and answer the stop think write section.

Listen to the fluent reading Sweet berries and find the meanings of the vocabulary words used in the section.
We will discuss the different traditions that each culture has and how they have been passed down from one generation to the other.We will learn that folktales are stories that tells about a cultures customs and has a lesson to teach. We will take turns to read The Harvest Birds.Discuss the essential questions what do traditional tales tells readers about life while we read.

Practice to use commas correctly with nouns in a series.

The Week of December 4, 2017

Group 1


Spelling words:had, cat, ran, lock,miss,sock, egg
Vocabulary words: away, every, call, hear, come, said
Student will practice to blend  words with short a , -ck and double consonants. 
Read the story Ann Packs in decodable reader and find short a and double consonant words..
Review vocabulary words flash cards.
Reread the story Jack and The Wolf with fluency.
Writing: How to decorate a Christmas Tree
Group 2
Spelling words: shine, chase, white, while, these, flash, then, catch, thumb, which
vocabulary: beware, damage, bend, flash, pounding, prevent, reach, equal
Model and practice  consonant digraphs  th, ch, sh, wh, tch ph.
Use picture cards to summarize the events in the  lesson Super Storms.
Practice spelling and vocabulary words by completing worksheets.
Practice to blend and decode regularly spelled base words with endings -s, -ed, -ing.
Writing: How to decorate a Christmas Tree

Group 3-
Spelling words: cheese, June, elbow, program, shiny, piles, sticky,visit, shiver, limit Bonus: both, comb
Vocabulary words:twitch, swoops, squeak, echoes, detail, slithers, dozes, snuggles
Students will learn to Decode, read, spell multi syllable CVC words.
Review spelling and vocabulary words and their  meanings.
Write facts about Bats from the lesson read.
Make a mini book How A bat grows.
Review subjects and predicates
Read the leveled reader Chased By a Bat.
Review suffix -able and -ible and action verbs

Writing: How to decorate a Christmas Tree