Daily Classroom Work

April 15-18

Reading: Meeting Our Needs and Wants: Why do we make choices?

Monday: Ask and answer questions about a text
Tuesday: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
Wednesday: Identify and sort common words into categories, relating vocabulary to background knowledge.
Thursday: Identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.
Friday: No School

Phonics: Reading and Writing Words with Digraphs

Monday: Read sentences with phrasing for fluency
Tuesday: Write correct end punctuation for sentences
Wednesday: Read sentences with phrasing for fluency
Thursday: Identify words with suffix re-
Friday: No School

Writing: Opinion writing

April 8-12

Reading: Weather and Seasons: How do our lives change with the seasons?

Monday: Use personal experiences to make inferences.
Tuesday: Understand meaning of end punctuation.
Wednesday: Identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Thursday: Identify words with ‑ed and use the inflection to help determine word meaning.
Friday: Ask and answer questions about a text.

Phonics: Reading and Writing Words with Digraphs

Monday: Read sentences with phrasing
Tuesday: Sentence dictation
Wednesday: Read sentences with phrasing
Thursday: Read sentences with phrasing
Friday: Review author, illustrator, fiction, non-fiction

Writing: Writing informational text

April 2-5

Reading: Weather and Seasons: How do our lives change with the seasons?

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Create mental images to deepen understanding
Wednesday: Describe the connection between two ideas or pieces of information in a text.
Thursday: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
Friday: Identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

Phonics: Reading and Writing Words with Digraphs

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Use ck at the end of words right after a short vowel
Wednesday: Read and write words with digraphs
Thursday: Read sentences using phrasing to model fluency
Friday: Read sentences including sight words

Writing: Writing informational text

March 25-29

Reading: Holidays and Celebrations-Why do we celebrate people and events?

Monday: Create mental images and ask questions about a text.
Tuesday: Review question mark. Pitch-Your voice goes up at the end of a question.
Wednesday: Use pictures and other details to draw an inference.
Thursday: Describe the relationship between the illustrations and the story
Friday: Identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.

Phonics: Building fluency reading CVC and sight words.

Monday: Spelling of ck-only at the end of a word right after a short vowel
Tuesday: Identify long and short vowel sounds in words
Wednesday: Read sentences using phrasing to model fluency
Thursday: Read and write words with digraphs
Friday: Practice creating mental images as you read

Writing: Students will write a narrative.

March 11-15

UNIT 7 - Holidays and Celebrations

Reading: Why do we celebrate people and events?

Monday: Distinguishing between important and unimportant information.
Tuesday: Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Wednesday: Use inflections (‑ing and –ful) as clues to the meaning of unknown words.
Thursday: Identify the reasons an author gives to support an opinion.
Friday: Identify the difference between fact and opinion.

Phonics: Building fluency reading CVC and sight words.

Monday: Reading and writing words with digraphs.
Tuesday: Reading and writing sight words.
Wednesday: Reading sentences with correct phrasing.
Thursday: Reading nonsense words.
Friday: Retell a story using the Story Hand.

Writing: Students will write a narrative.

March 4-8

Reading: Holidays and Celebrations-Why do we celebrate people and events?

Monday: Introduce abbreviations-Dr., Mr., Mrs.
Tuesday: Identify main topic and retell key details of an informational text.
Wednesday: Use the inflection ‑ed as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Thursday: Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Friday: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.

Phonics: Building fluency reading CVC and sight words.

Monday: Introduce digraphs-wh, ch, sh, th, ck and pictures
Tuesday: Review sight words
Wednesday: Read and write words with digraphs.
Thursday: Read nonsense words.
Friday: Retell a story using the Story Hand.

Writing: Students will write a narrative.

Feb. 26-March 1

Reading: Holidays and Celebrations-Why do we celebrate people and events?

Monday: Recognize and identify end punctuation.
Tuesday: Suffix -s, means happening right now or more than one.
Wednesday: Describe the connection between two events in a text.
Thursday: Identify words with suffix -ed
Friday: Identify personification as describing an object or an animal as doing things that people do.

Phonics: Building fluency reading CVC and sight words.

Monday: Read and write CVC words
Tuesday: Identify long and short vowels in words.
Wednesday: Read and write sight words.
Thursday: Read nonsense words.
Friday: Retell a story using the Story Hand

Writing: Students will write a narrative.

Feb. 20-23

Reading: Stories Have a Message-How do we know what is right?

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Make connections between texts
Wednesday: Relate words to their opposite, Introduce prefix-un
Thursday: Identify multiple meaning words.
Friday: Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in stories.

Phonics: Blending

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Read nonsense words
Wednesday: Dictation-sounds, words, sentences
Thursday: Read and write CVC words
Friday: Identify characters, setting and main events.

Writing: Writing an opinion text that includes details

Feb. 12-16th, 2024

UNIT 6 - Stories have a message - How do we know what is right?

Reading: Stories Have a Message-How do we know what is right?

Monday: Making text to self connections
Tuesday: Build knowledge by understanding that traditional stories teach lessons.
Wednesday: Understand words by relating them to their opposites.
Thursday: Parent Conferences
Friday: Parent Conferences

Phonics: Blending

Monday: Blending and writing CVC words
Tuesday: Identifying long and short vowels sounds
Wednesday: Review sight words
Thursday: Parent Conferences
Friday: Parent Conferences

Writing: Writing an opinion text that includes details

Feb. 5-9

Reading: Stories Have a Message-How do we know what is right?

Monday: Make connections to stories that teach about working together.
Tuesday: Read a poem with fluent expression using inflection/intonation‑stress.
Wednesday: Understand that fables teach lessons.
Thursday: Confirm understanding of a text read aloud by asking and answering questions about key details.
Friday: Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

Phonics: Blending

Monday: Blending and writing CVC words
Tuesday: Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds
Wednesday: Review trick words
Thursday: Read and write nonsense words
Friday: Answer questions about a story. Read sentences with phrasing.

Writing: Writing an opinion text that includes details

Jan. 29-Feb. 2

Reading: Technology at Home and School-Why do we use technology?

Monday: Summarize main topic and key details
Tuesday: Identify Characters, setting and major events
Wednesday: Describe the relationship between illustrations and text.
Thursday: Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in stories.
Friday: Identify and explain descriptive words.

Phonics: Blending

Monday: Blending and writing CVC words
Tuesday: Review: long and short vowel sounds.
Wednesday: Trick words: a, the
Thursday: Read CVC nonsense words
Friday: Answer questions about a story

Writing: Writing informational text including captions

Jan. 22-26

Reading: Technology at Home and School-Why do we use technology?

Monday: Draw inferences to learn about technology
Tuesday: Recognize informational text features: Illustrations and captions
Wednesday: Find text evidence: Identify the reasons an author gives to support points.
Thursday: Describe the relationship between the illustrations and the text
Friday: Identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

Phonics: Blending

Monday: Tapping out sounds in CVC words
Tuesday: Identify long and short vowel sounds
Wednesday: Reading and writing CVC words
Thursday: Reading CVC nonsense words
Friday: Answer questions about a story

Writing: Writing informational text including captions

January 15-20, 2024

Reading: Technology at Home and School-Why do we use technology?

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Retell important details in a poem
Wednesday: Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text
Thursday: Recognize features of informational texts: photographs and captions
Friday: Distinguish between important and unimportant information in a text

Phonics: Blending

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Blending CVC words, letters Q and R
Wednesday: Blending CVC words, letters S, T, U,
Thursday: Tapping out words to blend three sounds, Letters V, W, X
Friday: Blending CVC words, letters Y, Z

Writing: Writing informational text including captions

Jan. 8-12th

Reading: Writers Tell Many Stories - Why do people tell stories?

Monday: Create mental images about characters in stories
Tuesday: Identify and describe characters and setting
Wednesday: Identify major story events
Thursday: Compare and contrast experiences of characters in stories
Friday: No School

Phonics: Blending

Monday: Changing initial consonant sounds in CVC words, letter J
Tuesday: Blending CVC words, letter K
Wednesday: Blending CVC words, letters M and N
Thursday: Tapping out words to blend three sounds, letters O and P
Friday: No School

Writing: Writing opinion texts

Dec. 18-21

Christmas Around the World activities

Students will "board an airplane" and travel to Israel, China, Holland, United Kingdom, and Germany
Students will learn about holidays in these countries
Students will complete a craft for each country

Holiday parties on Thursday in the PM classrooms 12:30-1:30

Dec. 11-15

Reading: Writers Tell Many Stories

Why do people tell stories?

Monday: Draw inferences and use evidence to support understanding
Tuesday: Identify and describe characters and setting in a story
Wednesday: Describe the relationship between the illustrations and the story
Thursday: Identify major story events
Friday: Compare and contrast experiences of characters in stories.

Phonics: Blendning

Monday: Blend CVC words
Tuesday: Blend CVC words
Wednesday: Homophones
Thursday: Letter/sound dictation
Friday: Guess my word

Writing: Students will write their opinion about a text and add supporting details

December 4-8, 2023

UNIT 4 - Writers Tell Many Stories

Reading: Writers Tell Many Stories

Why do people tell stories?

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Draw inferences
Wednesday: Identify and describe the characters and setting in a story
Thursday: Create mental images as you read
Friday: Identify and describe major story events

Phonics: Blending

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Blend CVC words
Wednesday: Homophones
Thursday: Letter/sound dictation
Friday: Guess my word

Writing: Students will their opinion about a text

Nov 27, 2023 - Dec 1, 2023

UNIT 3 - Rules at Home and School

Reading: Rules at Home and School

Why do we have rules?

Monday: Evaluate details to determine what is most important.
Tuesday: Model fluency: Inflection/Intonation
Wednesday: Identify and describe story characters
Thursday: Read text with appropriate speed and identify key words
Friday: Make connections

Phonics: Learning letter names/sounds

Monday: Introduce x, y
Tuesday: Dictate new sounds
Wednesday: Identify ending sounds
Thursday: Telling and asking sentences
Friday: Story Time with Echo-Story elements

Writing: Students will draw and write a response to text

Science/Social Studies:

Rules at home and school

November 13-17, 20203

Reading: Rules at Home and School

Why do we have rules?

Monday: Evaluate details to determine what is most important
Tuesday: Identify the reasons an author gives to support points
Wednesday: Evaluate details to determine what is most important
Thursday: Informational text features: Tables of Contents
Friday: Identify descriptive language