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.