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Week of April 29, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Reading MAP test
  • Tuesday: Math MAP test
  • Wednesday: Language Usage MAP test
  • Thursday: Begin Unit 10 (or MAP makeups); read aloud fluently
  • Friday: No Normal School- Sign up with your homeroom teacher for a reading test slot
Social Studies: Prezi for Ancient Greece

Monday: Intro; gods and goddesses

Tuesday: Gods and goddesses (continued)

Wednesday: The Trojan War

Thursday: Athens

Friday: No Normal School- Sign up with your homeroom teacher for a reading test slot

 

Week of April 22, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read informational text aloud fluently; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read informational text aloud fluently; find and discuss plural nouns and plural possessives; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read poem aloud fluently, with great expression and inflection; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: Unit 9 Choice Boards
  • Friday: Field Trip
Social Studies:

Monday: Ag Day Activities

Tuesday: Second Step - The Way to Say a Problem; Thinking of a Solution

Wednesday: Drill

Thursday: Cougar Store

Friday: Field Trip

 

Week of April 15, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read literary text aloud fluently; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read literary text aloud fluently; find and discuss irregular past tense verbs; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read informational text aloud fluently; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: read informational text aloud fluently; find and discuss plural nouns; practice handwriting
  • Friday: No School
  • Monday: Chicken Journals Days 1-5
  • Tuesday: Chicken Journals Days 6-13
  • Wednesday: Chicken Journals Days 14-21
  • Thursday: Test (Kahoot)
  • Friday: No School
Week of April 8, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read informational text aloud fluently; find and discuss compound words; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read informational text aloud fluently; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read informational text aloud fluently; find and discuss nouns; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: read a poem aloud fluently; practice handwriting
  • Friday: read realistic fiction text aloud fluently; catch up on work
  • Monday  -  Intro
  • Tuesday  - Butterflies
  • Wednesday - Frogs
  • Thursday  - Chickens
  • Friday  - Plants
Week of April 1, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: No School
  • Tuesday: read informational text aloud fluently; find and discuss possessives; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read a poem with fluent expression; practice spelling words
  • Thursday: Unit 8 Choice Boards
  • Friday: Begin Unit 9; read informational text aloud fluently; practice handwriting
Social Studies: Civil Rights
  • Monday  -  No School
  • Tuesday  - Jackie Robinson
  • Wednesday - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Thursday  - Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Friday  - Civil Rights Test (Kahoot)
Week of March 25, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read a drama aloud fluently; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read a drama aloud fluently; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read a poem at an appropriate pace; analyze tone in a poem; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: read informational text aloud fluently; practice handwriting
  • Friday: read informational text aloud fluently; catch up on missing work; Unit 11 Week 2 Spelling Test
Social Studies: Civil Rights
  • Monday  -  Cesar Chavez
  • Tuesday  - Susan B. Anthony
  • Wednesday - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Thursday  - Rosa Parks
  • Friday  - March Cougar Store and Awards
 
Week of March 11, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read informational text aloud fluently; ask questions; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read a poem aloud fluently; discuss poet’s word choice; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Greatest Showman; Math test review
  • Thursday: read a drama aloud fluently; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Ellis Island Day
Social Studies: Immigration
  • Monday: Industrial Revolution
  • Tuesday: Immigrants Become Farmers
  • Wednesday: A Success Story
  • Thursday: Citizenship 
  • Friday: Ellis Island Day

Week of March 4, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read informational text aloud fluently; use graphics and informational text features; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read informational text aloud fluently; use graphics and informational text features; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Read a poem aloud fluently; analyze word choice and vocabulary used; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: Unit 7 Choice Boards
  • Friday: Begin Unit 8; read informational text aloud fluently; ask questions while reading; practice handwriting
Social Studies: Immigration
      • Monday: Welcome to America
      • Tuesday: Arriving in America
      • Wednesday: Ellis Island
      • Thursday: Life in the City
      • Friday: Second Step - Having Empathy and Having Empathy at School
Week of February 26, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read informational text aloud fluently; use graphics and informational text features; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read informational text aloud fluently; use graphics and informational text features; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Field Trip
  • Thursday: Special Guest Speaker
  • Friday: read informational text aloud fluently; use graphics and informational text features; practice handwriting
Science: Insects
  • Monday: What is an insect?
  • Tuesday: Insect body parts
  • Wednesday: Ants and Bees
  • Thursday: Insects Test (Kahoot)
  • Friday: Cougar Store
Week of February 19, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: No School
  • Tuesday: Begin Unit 7; read informational text aloud fluently; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Read informational text aloud fluently; find and explain regular past tense verbs; practice spelling words
  • Thursday: Read informational text aloud fluently; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Read a poem aloud fluently; practice handwriting
Social Studies: Civil War
  • Monday: No School
  • Tuesday: Generals Lee and Grant
  • Wednesday: The war ends
  • Thursday: Clara Barton
  • Friday: Civil War Test (Kahoot)
Week of February 12, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read a poem aloud fluently; assess a poet’s purpose; catch up on missing work or undone handwriting pages
  • Tuesday: Unit 6/Valentine’s Choice Boards
  • Wednesday: Valentine’s Day Fun
  • Thursday: No School
  • Friday: No School
Social Studies: Civil War
      • Monday: The war begins
      • Tuesday: The war continues
      • Wednesday: Valentine’s Day Party
      • Thursday: No School
      • Friday: No School
Week of February 5, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: CogAT Testing
  • Tuesday: read aloud fluently; find and explain the suffix “-est”; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read aloud fluently and make connections; practice spelling words
  • Thursday: read aloud fluently and make connections; practice handwriting
  • Friday: read aloud fluently; find and explain compound words; practice handwriting
Social Studies: Civil War
  • Monday: Slavery
  • Tuesday: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman
  • Wednesday: Abraham Lincoln
  • Thursday: Second Step (What’s Empathy and Empathy in Action)
  • Friday: Chinese New Year Assembly
Week of January 29, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read aloud fluently and make connections; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read aloud fluently; find and explain the suffix “-er”; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read aloud fluently and make connections; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: Westward Expansion Day - no blocks today
  • Friday: read aloud fluently; find and explain the suffix “-est”; practice handwriting
Social Studies: Westward Expansion
  • Monday: Trail of Tears/Death of Bison
  • Tuesday: Sequoyah and Cherokee language
  • Wednesday: Westward Expansion Test (Kahoot)
  • Thursday: Westward Expansion Day
  • Friday: Cougar Store
Week of January 22, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Begin Unit 6: Tales That Teach Us; read aloud fluently; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: read aloud fluently; find and explain contractions; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read aloud fluently; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: read aloud fluently; locate and define adverbs; practice handwriting
  • Friday: read a poem with dramatic expression; recognize and produce rhyming words; catch up on spelling work and handwriting
Social Studies: Westward Expansion
  • Monday: Guest Speaker
  • Tuesday: California Gold Rush
  • Wednesday: Pony Express
  • Thursday: Transcontinental Railroad
  • Friday: Cowboys’ life out West
Week of January 15, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: No School
  • Tuesday: Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Read aloud fluently; discuss prefix “un-”; practice spelling words
  • Thursday: Read a poem fluently and with expression; practice handwriting.
  • Friday: Unit 5 Choice Boards
Social Studies: Westward Expansion
  • Monday: No School
  • Tuesday: Robert Fulton/Steam Engine
  • Wednesday: Erie Canal
  • Thursday: Oregon Trail
  • Friday: Wagon Trains
Week of January 8, 2024
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Read aloud fluently; discuss punctuation; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; practice handwriting.
  • Thursday: Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; discuss suffixes, especially -tion; practice handwriting
  • Friday: No School
Social Studies: Prezi on Japan
  • Monday: Geography
  • Tuesday: Food
  • Wednesday: Dress
  • Thursday: Traditions
  • Friday: No School
Week of December 18, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; practice handwriting
  • Tuesday: Read aloud fluently; discuss irregular past tense verbs; practice handwriting.
  • Wednesday: Read a poem with expression and identify a poet’s purpose; practice handwriting.
  • Thursday: Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; practice handwriting
  • Friday: No School
Social Studies: China Prezi; India Prezi
  • Monday: Siddharta, Buddha, Jataka tales, and King Ashoka
  • Tuesday: India and China test (Kahoot)
  • Wednesday: Holiday Singalong (K-4)
  • Thursday: Diwali Party 
  • Friday: No School
Week of December 11, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Read a poem with short, intentional pauses; practice spelling words. 
  • Tuesday: Read aloud expressively; analyze characters and their motivations; practice spelling words.
  • Wednesday: Unit 4 Choice Boards
  • Thursday: Begin Unit 5 - Technology and Invention; Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Read aloud at a fluent speed and pace; practice handwriting
Social Studies: China Prezi; India Prezi
  • Monday: China - Great Rivers and Great Wall
  • Tuesday: Confucius
  • Wednesday: Chinese Writing and Inventions; Chinese New Year
  • Thursday: Ancient India - Indus People
  • Friday: Hinduism and gods; Diwali
Week of December 4, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: No School - DIBELS testing
  • Tuesday: MAP testing
  • Wednesday: MAP testing
  • Thursday: MAP testing
  • Friday: Read aloud fluently; draw inferences in a literary text
Social Studies: Diwali
  • Monday: No School 
  • Tuesday: Diwali
  • Wednesday: Diwali
  • Thursday: Diwali
  • Friday: Diwali
Week of November 27, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Read aloud fluently; draw inferences in a literary text; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Notice and discuss adverbs; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Identify poet’s purpose; draw inferences in a poem; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: Read a poem with short appropriate pauses; use evidence to support understanding of a poem; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Notice and discuss prepositions in a poem;  catch up on unfinished work
  • Monday: Non-Newtonian fluid
  • Tuesday: Experiments
  • Wednesday: Matter Test (Kahoot)
  • Thursday: Second Step ~ Different Feelings; How Do You Feel? 
  • Friday: Cougar Store
Week of November 13, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Read aloud fluently; notice and discuss adverbs; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Make inferences about a poem; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Unit 3 Choice Boards
  • Thursday: Begin Unit 4: Different Characters, Different Points of View; Draw inferences in a literary text; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Identify pronouns in a text and discuss what they stand for; practice handwriting
  • Monday: Introduction to Matter
  • Tuesday: Liquid
  • Wednesday: Solid
  • Thursday: Gas
  • Friday: Second Step ~ Feeling Disappointed; Helping Yourself Feel Better
Week of November 6, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: discuss figurative language/personification in a poem; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: determine important details in a text; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: read aloud with appropriate phrasing; use text and graphic features of informational text
  • Thursday: Early Release (spelling test and math)
  • Friday: No School
Social Studies: Prezi for War of 1812
  • Monday: Francis Scott Key
  • Tuesday: War Ends
  • Wednesday: Test (Kahoot)
  • Thursday: No school in PM
  • Friday: No school
Week of October 30, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Discuss word choice in a poem; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Halloween
  • Wednesday: Charlotte’s Web Day
  • Thursday: Use text evidence to support understanding; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Find and discuss adverbs and adjectives in informational text; practice handwriting
Social Studies: Prezi for War of 1812
  • Monday: Introduction
  • Tuesday: Halloween
  • Wednesday: Tecumseh
  • Thursday: War Begins and James Madison
  • Friday: Old Ironsides and Dolly Madison
Week of October 23, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Use text evidence to draw inferences in a poem; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Unit 2 Choice Boards
  • Wednesday: Begin Unit 3: Government Working for Us; determine the importance of details in a text; practice spelling words
  • Thursday: Read aloud with dramatic expression; find and discuss compound words; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Determine the importance of details in a text; practice handwriting
Social Studies: Prezi for Constitution
  • Monday: The Constitution and James Madison
  • Tuesday: Three Branches of our Government
  • Wednesday: Preamble
  • Thursday: Test (Kahoot)
  • Friday: Cougar Store
Week of October 9, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Create and describe mental images; find and discuss past tense verbs; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Identify sensory language in a poem; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Create and describe mental images; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: Create and describe mental images; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Read complex sentences with appropriate phrasing; find and discuss the different types of sentences
Social Studies:
  • Monday: 4 layers of the rainforest
  • Tuesday: Several countries in South America
  • Wednesday: Languages spoken in South America; Simon Bolivar
  • Thursday: Test (Kahoot)
  • Friday: Second Step ~ We Can Change our Thoughts
Week of October 2, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Charlotte’s Web extension activities
  • Tuesday: Field Trip
  • Wednesday: Practice RACE writing
  • Thursday: Read aloud at an appropriate volume; find and discuss pronouns in texts
  • Friday: Create and describe mental images; find and discuss contractions
Social Studies:
  • Monday: Field Trip
  • Tuesday: Field Trip
  • Wednesday: Introduction to South America
  • Thursday: Pampas and Gauchos
  • Friday: Andes Mountains; begin Brazil and Rainforest
Week of September 25, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: read a poem with dramatic expression; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Choice Boards
  • Wednesday: Begin new unit (Characters Learn and Grow); create and describe mental images; practice spelling words
  • Thursday: read aloud at an appropriate volume, find and define the prefix “un-”; practice handwriting
  • Friday: create and describe mental images; practice handwriting
Science:
  • Monday: Metamorphic Rocks
  • Tuesday: Science Experiment
  • Wednesday: Rocks/Minerals Test (Kahoot)
  • Thursday: Second Step ~ Helpful and Unhelpful Thoughts; We Can Change our Thoughts
  • Friday: Cougar Store
Week of September 18, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Recognize the mood of a poem; conferences self-reflection
  • Tuesday: Use questions to deepen understanding of a text; conferences self-reflection
  • Wednesday: Read aloud with appropriate pacing and expression; notice and discuss the prefix “un”
  • Thursday: No School
  • Friday: No School
Science:
  • Monday: What are minerals and where do we find rocks
  • Tuesday: Igneous Rocks
  • Wednesday: Sedimentary Rocks
  • Thursday: No school
  • Friday: No school
Week of September 11, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Recognize rhyming words in a poem; practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Use questions to deepen understanding of a text; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Read aloud with dramatic expression; notice and discuss apostrophes; practice handwriting
  • Thursday: Use questions to deepen understanding of a text; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Read aloud with dramatic expression; notice and discuss irregular past tense verbs
Social Studies:
  • Monday: Coast
  • Tuesday: Valley
  • Wednesday: Oasis
  • Thursday: Landforms Test (Kahoot to practice)
  • Friday: 2nd Step ~ How to Get Good at Something and What Mistakes Tell Us
Week of September 4, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: No School
  • Tuesday: Ask questions to deepen understanding of a text; practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Read aloud with appropriate pacing; discuss suffixes -er and -est; practice spelling words
  • Thursday: Ask questions to deepen understanding of a text; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Read aloud with appropriate pacing; discuss compound words; practice handwriting
Social Studies:
  • Monday: No School
  • Tuesday: Introduce Landforms
  • Wednesday: Prairie
  • Thursday: Plateau
  • Friday: Desert
Week of August 28, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Discuss Characters and Setting; Practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Discuss Setting and Problem/Resolution; Practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Discuss appropriate use of classroom library and book bags
  • Thursday: Choose books for independent reading; practice handwriting
  • Friday: Choose books for independent reading; practice handwriting
Week of August 21, 2023
Guided Reading:
  • Monday: Discuss Why Readers Read and Ways to Read a Book; Practice spelling words
  • Tuesday: Compare and Contrast Fiction and Informational Text; Practice spelling words
  • Wednesday: Discuss Informational Text Features; Spelling word search
  • Thursday: MAP testing
  • Friday: No School - DIBELS assessment
Week of August 14, 2023
Monday: Welcome to 2nd grade activities
Tuesday: Social Contract and Procedures
Wednesday: Made Binders and Red Folders
Thursday: Introduce ourselves as readers
Friday: Reading Inventory; Favorite books