The Week of April 30, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words: play, may, way, day, stay, tray, hay, clay
Vocabulary word:first, food, ground, right, sometimes, these, under, your
Practice to blend and decode words with ai, ay.Read Sweet Treats and find words with ay, ai and high frequency words.
Read then informational text Where does Food Come From amd find how the text and graphic features add more details to the lesson.Discuss the authors purpose for writing the lesson.practice words with long a (ai ay) sounds.
Writing: when its warm outside...
Group 2
Spelling words: meet, meat, week, weak, mane, main, tail, tale, be, bee, two, too
Vocabulary Words:knot, copy, planning, lonely, heavily, seriously, answered, guessed
Students will learn that homophone are words that sound alike but has different spellings and meanings. we will practice to homophones by using them is sentences.
learn the meaning of vocabulary words as they are used in sentences and practice vocabulary words by completing worksheet. Discuss the importance of following directions to do things in right way.read the realistic Fiction Gloria: who might Be My Best friend and discuss how do friends help each other.Learn that an adjective describes a noun and work on to use adjectives that tell more about another word.
Complete grab n go worksheets
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Group 3-
Spelling words:cities, cries, puppies, hurried, stories, tried, pennies, carried, babies, spied, ponies, flies Bonus: countries, libraries
Vocabulary words:migrate, survival, plenty, frightening, accidents, solid, chilly, landscape, thunderous, dramatic
Students will learn how the spelling changes when we add -s or -es to words that ends with, s, sh, ch, or x.When a base word ends in y, the y is changed to i before adding -ed. Review and practice adding -s or -es , -ed, -ing endings.
Practice the meanings of vocabulary words by making flash cards.Discuss how animals migrate from one location to another during climate changes. We will take turns to read the informational text, The Journey: Stories Of Migration and discuss why animals migrate to different places.
The Week of April 16, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words: leap, mean, peach, bee, leaf, teach, deep, sleep
Vocabulary word:about, by, car, could, don't, maybe, sure, there
Practice to blend and decode words with e, ee,ea e_e. Read Pop's Take A Trip and answer the questions in write in reader.
Discuss about the Different way to travel. .Read the fantasy The Big Trip and compare the characters in the story.
Group 2
Spelling words::horn, story, fork, score, corn, morning, shore, short, tore, forget, report, before
Vocabulary Words:depended, sore, sprang, studied, gazing, hero, exercise, overlooked
Students will learn that the letters o and r together will stand for the /or/ sound in the beginning,or middle of a word.
Also the letters ore stand for the /or/ sounds at the end of a word.
Practice to decode and write words with /or/ sound.
Discuss who a hero is and what heroes do. Learn that fantasy is a story that could not happen in real life. read the fantasy Dex: The heart of A hero and discuss what makes someone a Hero.
Practice to use commas in series of nouns and verbs.
Group 3-
Spelling words:swimming, dropping, tapping, invited, changing, joking, loved, gripped,tasted, stared bonus: freezing, scared
Vocabulary words:prairie, slick, fetch, clattered, sniff, rough, batted, thumped, buzzing, rustle
Students will learn that when a base word ends with e, the e is dropped before adding -ed and -ing. And when a base word ends with a vowel and a consonant the consonant is doubled before adding -ed or -ing.( shop, shopped, shopping)
Practice words with -ed and -ing endings.
Practice the meanings of vocabulary words by making flash cards.Discuss the life of pioneer people, the hardships that they had to face to settle in west. Students will take turns to read the Historical fiction Sarah, plain and Tall and discuss the essential questions while we read.Learn that adverbs are words that describe a verb, telling, when, where and how something happens. Adverb can also used to compare actions which is called comparative adverbs..
The Week of April 9, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words:me, be, read, feet, tree, keep, eat, sea, these
Vocabulary word:about, by, car, could, don't, maybe, sure, there
Practice to blend and decode words with e, ee,ea e_e. Read Pop's Take A Trip and answer the questions in write in reader.
Discuss about the Different way to travel. .Read the fantasy The Big Trip and compare the characters in the story.
Group 2
Spelling words:dark, arm, park, yard, hard, party, start, spark, farm, star, carpet, apartment
Vocabulary Words:assistant, agreed, polite, failed, tearing, wisdom, cleared, trouble
Students will learn that the letters a and r together will stand for the /ar/ sound in the beginning, middle or end of a word.
Practice to decode and write words with /ar/ sound.
We will discuss the importance of having signs and following them, We will read the story The Sign Maker's Assistant and discuss the characters and how the text and graphic features help understanding what is happening in the story.
Review synonyms and proper nouns.
Group 3-
Spelling words:birthday, anyone, sometimes, everything, grandmother, faraway, sunburned, daylight, afternoon, airplane, bonus: scorekeeper, everybody
Vocabulary words:shelter, colony, constant, wilderness, climate, region, unexpected, gliding, overheated, layer
Students will learn that a compound word is formed from two smaller words. Two smaller words in the compound word, gives clues about the meaning of the compound word.Practice to spell and read compound words.
Discuss the topic climate and how it is different in different states and how people survive in areas where the temperature ids freezing.We will read the informational text Life On The Ice and discuss the essential questions while we read.
