The Week of May 21, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words: far, art, barn, jar, card, bark, arm yarn
Vocabulary word:few, night, shall, window, story, noise, world,loudly
Student will learn that letters ar will stand for the /ar/ sound at the beginning, middle and end of a word.
Read the story Bean Reaches For The Sun in Write in Reader and answer the questions.
Discuss the steps in making a garden.We will discuss what happens when a character named Toad plants some seeds to make a garden. Read the story The Garden and answer the essential question, what grows in a garden.
Group 2
Spelling words:root, crew, you, spoon,blue, bloom, grew, stew, boost, scoop, flew Bonus: shampoo
Vocabulary Words:ordinary, control, cage, upset, sensible, confused, training, suspiciously
Students will learn that the letters oo, ew, ue and ou can stand for the /oo/in boot.students will practice to segment sounds in words.
Discuss the vocabulary words and their meanings. Discuss how living things can change when they grow citing the example of humans.We will read the fantasy The Mysterious Tadpole and discuss the essential question how animals change when they grow while we read.
Group 3
Spellig Words:painless, sickness, thankless, helpless, kindness, hopeless,fearless, careless, darkness, spotless, softness bonus:breathless eagerness
Vocabualry: approached, section, avalanches, increases, equipment, tanks, slopes, altitude, succeed, halt
Students will learn that adding suffixes to the end of a base word can change the meaning of the base words.And that the sounds of the base words stay the same even if letters are dropped of changed
Discuss that mountains are high elevated forms of land and are found all over the world and people like to do adventures like climbing up a mountain range. We will read the informational text Mountains Surviving On Mount Everest. We will use the details in the text like the graphic features to make inferences and predictions.
We will learn that an analogy is a kind of comparison in which one pair of words is compared to another.and each pair relates by definition, meaning or characteristics.complete worksheets.
The Week of may 14, 2018
Group 1
Spelling words:
Spelling words: show, row, grow, low, blow, snow, crow, bowl
Vocabulary word:done, great, laugh, paper, soon, talk, were, work
Practice to blend and decode words with oa and ow.
Read the story Fun With Gram in decodable reader and find words with long o sounds.
read the Story When Tom Grows Up in write in Reader and answer the questions.
we will discuss things that we do now that people long ago did not know about. Read the story Tomas Rivera and answer the essential question, why is it important to learn about people from the past.
Practice and complete worksheets..
Spelling words:tall, saw, dog, draw, call, fall, soft, paw, ball,yawn, log, small Bonus:awful
Vocabulary Words:grain, pod, soak, soften, root, shoot, nutrition, tasty
Students will learn that the letters aw, au, can stand for the /aw/ sound as in lawn.The letters au usually stand at the beginning or middle of a word.
Discuss the life cycles of tress and plants how a seed can grow and turn into a large tree. We read the informational text From Seed To Plant. we will discuss the essential questions how plants grow and change while we read..
Tuesday:
Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Complete reading the informational text From Seed To Plant and discuss the cause and effect that happens in the lesson.We will also look how graphic features help us understand the text better.
Review examples of irregular action verbs and complete a
Read the informational text Super Soil and compare how the features in both the lessons are same and alike.
Read the story A Spring Walk from the decodable reader and find words that stand for /aw/
Practice irregular verbs that tells about the past.
Grab n go worksheets
Students will learn to sort words with -y, -ly and -ful endings.
Group 3-
Spelling words:joyful, quickly, friendly, farmer, speaker,unhurt, recheck,unfold, rejoin, untie, reheat,unclear Bonus;unknown, unbuckle
Vocabulary words:voyage, lava, rippled, arrival, guided, twisted, aboard, anchor, spotted, bay
Students will learn that a suffix is added to the end of the base word and it changes the meaning of the base word and adds a syllable.
students will practice to add suffix -ly, -ful -er to the base words.
Students will learn that a prefix is added to the beginning of a base word Practice words with prefixes un-, pre-, re- and bi-
Learn the meaning of the vocabulary words.
Discuss that when volcanoes erupts, hot lava comes out and when it cools it turns to lands and islands are formed.
We will take turns to read the realistic fiction Dog - of - the Sea -Waves . We will discuss the essential question what changes do volcanoes cause while we read.
