Kindergarten
Students will practice identifying and writing the vowels -e and -u. They will practice the letter-keyword-sound of each letter: e-egg-/e/, u-up-/u/. They will also develop word awareness. They will watch proper sentence writing, including the use of capital letters and punctuation. They will echo read the sentences- I will read it first then they will repeat the sentence. They will also be asked to point to each word to become aware that sentences contain words. They will also continue to work on understanding stories. They will practice retelling a story after I read and act it out. They will be expected to answer questions such as, who was in the story? Where did it begin? What was the problem? What did the character do about it? How did the story end?
1st Grade
The trick words for this week are -say, -do and -first. The vocabulary words for this week are -bunch, -ranch, and -shrug. Students will continue to practice spelling and reading words with consonant blends, such as -bl, -st, -fl, -br. They will also continue to review the reading of a baseword and a suffix. The will specifically practice how to spell words that end with the suffix -s.
2nd Grade
Students will read about famous people and will learn how to identify the important events that happened to them. They will create timelines demonstrating dates of when the person was born, four important events and the date the person died. Students will also practice fluency during Reader's Theater. Students will continue reading a play of Puss-and-Boots. They will make masks and will perform the play for another small group of 2nd graders later this week.
