The Week of January 29, 2018

Group 1

Spelling words: that, then, this, both,path,math
Vocabulary words: blue, little,water, cold, live, where, far, their
Student will practice to blend  words with digraph th.
Read Pup's bath in write-In reader and answer the questions.
Read the Informational Text At Home In the Ocean and discuss the kinds of plants and animals that you find in the ocean
Group 2
Spelling words:  pay, wait, paint, train, pail, clay, free, teach, teeth, please, beach, wheel
Vocabulary words:culture, community, languages, transportation, subjects, lessons, special, wear

Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Students will learn that the vowel pairs ai can stand for the long a sound as in aim  and the vowel teams ay can stand for the long a sound as in spray.

Practice learning the sounds for vowel digraphs that ee and ea stands for long e sound as in leap and sheep and can be in the beginning, middle or end of a word.
Students will discuss the topic differences in school around the world.we will read the informational text Schools Around The World and discuss how some schools are different from each other.

Group 3-

Spelling words:joy, point, boy, join, oil, coin, noise, hole, whole,hear, here bonus:peace, piece
Vocabulary words:risky, grunted, profit, crops, plucked, scowled, tugged, hollered
Students will practice to decode words with oi and oy.
Students will learn that homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and has different meanings.Discuss the term agriculture and how some crops grow above ground and some underground. We learn that Trickster Tales tell about a character who tires to trick another character in a story.We will read the story Tops and Bottoms and discuss the characters and the essential questions.

The Week of January 22, 2018

Group 1

Spelling words:fun, bus, run, hand, pond,must
Vocabulary words: eat, put, give, small, one, take
Student will practice to blend  words with short u and  final -ump blends 
Read Who Likes to Jump? and find words with -ump blends.
We will  learn that a fantasy tells about made up people animals and events. We will read the fantasy A Cupcake party. We will discuss the importance of caring our friends while we read..
Group 2
Spelling words: names, bells,stamps, dishes, grapes,classes,buzzes,matches,fences,stitches
Vocabulary words:understand, gathered, impatient, impossible,believe, problem, demand, furious

Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Students will practice words with ending sounds /s/ and /z/ in words such as books, girls, lakes and washes. students will learn that ending -es is added to base words that often end with s, ss, x, z, sh, ch,tch.
Finish reading the story Click Clack Moo Cows that Type and discuss that words that sounds like noises helps the reader imagine what is happening. Discuss the characters and settings in the story.
Review words with prefixes pre- and mis-

Review singular and plural nouns.
Group 3-

Spelling words:chalk,also, raw ,salt, wall, lawn ,always ,almost, belong, false Bonus: strawberry,soft
Vocabulary words:invention, experiment, laboratory, genius, gadget, electric, signal, occasional
Students will practice to decode words with aw, al, au and o Students will learn that a followed by an l stands for the sound /aw/ like in salt and o can sometimes stands for the sound /aw/.

Discuss the topic Inventions and how they help people.Learn that a biography tells the true story of a person' life. We will read the biography Thomas Edison and and discuss the important traits an inventor should have..

The Week of January 15, 2018

Group 1

Spelling words:us, sun, but, lamp, jump, pump
Vocabulary words: eat, put, give, small, one, take
Student will practice to blend  words with short u and  final -ump blends 
Read the story Who Can help Cat? and answer the questions in the Write in Reader.
Read Who Likes to Jump? and find words with -ump blends.
We will  learn that a fantasy tells about made up people animals and events. We will read the fantasy A Cupcake party. We will discuss the importance of caring our friends while we read..
Group 2
Spelling words: hens, eggs ducks, bikes,boxes, wishes, dresses,foxes,glasses,bushes
Vocabulary words:understand, gathered, impatient, impossible,believe, problem, demand, furious
Students will listen to the passage Don't play cards with Dogs in The room and find the meanings of the highlighted words in the passage
Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Students will practice words with ending sounds /s/ and /z/ in words such as books, girls, lakes and washes. students will learn that ending -es is added to base words that often end with s, ss, x, z, sh, ch,tch.
Read the story The Play date in write in reader and answer the questions.

Review singular and plural nouns.
Group 3-

Spelling words:talk, cross, awful,law, cloth, cost, crawl, sauce,mall,,yawn Bonus: small, often
Vocabulary words:invention, experiment, laboratory, genius, gadget, electric, signal, occasional
Students will practice to decode words with aw, al, au and o Students will learn that a followed by an l stands for the sound /aw/ like in salt and o can sometimes stands for the sound /aw/.
Students will read the story Aleck's Big Ideas and answer the questions in write in reader.

Discuss the topic Inventions and how they help people.Learn that a biography tells the true story of a person' life. We will read the biography Thomas Edison and and discuss the important traits an inventor should have..

Happy New Year

The Week of January 2, 2018

Group 1

Spelling words:yes, let, red, step, ,sled, nest
Vocabulary words: read, was, draw, pictures, write, after
Student will practice to blend  words with short e and  consonants s blends 
Listen to the fluent reading The Little Red hen and find the meaning of vocabulary words used.
Read the story Scott And His Red Pen and answer the questions in the Write in Reader.
We will learn that a biography tells about events in a real person's life. We will read the lesson Dr. Seuss and discuss what makes a story funny.
Group 2
Vocabulary words: millions, choices, drift, simple, weaker, wrapped, disgusting, decide
Spelling words: I'm, don't, isn't, can't, we'll, it's, smaller, strongest, louder, tallest
High Frequency words: because, better, go, me, old, really, right, they, was, you
Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Students will learn that contractions are shortened form of two words and an apostrophe takes the place of letter/letters that are dropped.Practice contractions.
Students will listen to the passage Sharks on The Run and find the meaning of the highlighted words.
We will take a picture walk on the Lesson Jellies and look for the photos and captions relating to each topic.We will take turns to read the informational lesson Jellies and answer the essential questions on each page.

Students will learn that future tense verb tells an action that is going to happen and need to add will before the verb
Group 3-
Spelling words:clown, round, bow, cloud, power, crown, thousand,shower,found,loud,Bonus: mountain, house
Vocabulary words:familiar, applause, vacant, rickety, blurry, blasted, jerky, rude
Students will learn to Decode, read, spell vowel diphthongs ow, ou
Practice spelling and vocabulary words and their  meanings.
Read Puppets Around The World and answer the questions on write-in reader.
Listen to the fluent reading The Magical Art of Mime and find the meanings of vocabulary words.
Read the realistic fiction Kamishibai Man and discuss the essential questions.

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