Students will focus on letters -c, -a, -i, & r. They will learn proper letter formation and letter identification. Students will follow verbal directions while "Sky Writing." An example of "Sky Writing" for the letter -c is as follows: "point to the plane line, start to fly backwards, and go down to the grass line." Students will practice sounds while associating letters to keywords: c-cat-/c/, a-apple-/a/, i-itch-/i/, r-rat-/r/. They will also practice retelling important events in stories during storytime on Friday.
1st Grade
Students will review glued sounds that end with -ng and will learn new glued sounds that end with -nk, such as -ank, -ink, -onk, -unk. This week's vocabulary words are junk, pink, and thank.
The trick words are -two, -about, and -into.
2nd Grade
This week students will begin Unit 3 of Being a Writer. During this four-week unit, students will explore fiction writing and draft, revise, and publish their own stories. The first two weeks of this unit will focus on immersing the students in the genre and having them draft several fiction stories. They will write about different characters, including people, animals that talk, and toys that come to life. Since fiction writing is an act of the imagination, these two weeks will focus on stimulating the students' creativity and developing their abilities for invention and experimentation. The last two weeks will focus on taking the students through the writing process.
