Week of April 11th - April 15th

Kindergarten The new letters are z & qu. The letter q is called the "chicken letter" because it will never ever go anywhere without his best buddy, u. Word awareness will focus on sentences with periods or question marks. Students will create illustrations to develop a class book titled, Baby Echo Flies. 1st Grade Students will begin Unit 10 this week. This unit focuses on blending and segmenting up to 5 sounds in a closed syllable. Such as, skunk and blimp. The trick words are many, before and called. The words of the day are trust and blink. 2nd Grade Students will be taking OLSATS and writing animal reports during Reading and Writing workshop.

Week of April 4th- April 8th

Kindergarten The letters this week are v & w. We will continue to work on identifying ending sounds in words. Students will also continue to become aware that words are made up of sounds and words create sentences. We will focus on creating and reading sentences with question marks. I will re-perform the story "Baby Echo Flies" and will ask students to retell the story in their own words. 1st Grade Students will continue to practice reading words with closed syllables. They will identify that closed syllables have only one vowel, the vowel is followed by one or more consonants, and the vowel sound is short. Some sample words are click, chunk and sniffs. The trick words for this week are would, after and also. The Unit 9 assessment will take place on Friday. 2nd Grade The leveled reading for this week is "Birthday Surprise." The strategy focus will be predicting and inferring. The vocabulary words are groaned, promised, imagined, angry and grumbled.