Friday, February 13, 2009

Week of February 17th - February 20th

Kindergarten
Students will continue to work with their "popcorn" words. They we continue to produce rhyming words within the following word families: -ill, -ick, -im, -ist, & -ish. This week's focus for beginning sounds is short vowel /i/. Students will blend individual sounds to form whole words and they will chop words into individual sounds.


First Grade

Students will continue to work with sight words and spelling words. They will continue to work with -l and -r blends, such as sl/cl/bl/gl & cr/dr/br/pr. Students will identify final and medial sounds. They will substitute, add, and delete sounds in words. They will transfer their knowledge of sounds in words by segmenting individual sounds and writing the corresponding letters to create words and sentences on paper or white boards.


Second Grade
Students are staying in their homeroom classes this week for Reading. They will be writing biographies on significant historians. I will be working with a small group of 2nd graders. We will be creating timelines demonstrating significant events in a specific historian's life.