Insect (Week 2)

Poem: Humpty Dumpty
Sight Words: good, put


Reading:
Comprehension Strategy: This week students learned how to apply the reading strategy called cross-checking. When reading and something doesn't make sense or it doesn't sound right you have to cross-check. We use the phrase "Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?" We practiced this using picture cards by checking the word with the picture and we practiced with a partner while reading a leveled reader.





Accuracy: This week students learned words in the -ay and -ai word families. We wrote our list of words, read the slides, and finished the week with FlipGrid. Check out a few of our videos!



Vocabulary: This week students learned the words creep, swoop, weaves, flutter, blink, and crawl in the book "I Love Bugs". This is a fun book that talks about the many ways insects and bugs move around.

iPads:
PicEDU: This week students used PebbleGo to save a picture of an insect. They then went into picEDU to label the parts of that insect.



QR Codes: Students used QR codes on blue cards to scan and reveal a picture. They then used that picture to determine the word and write the missing vowel. This was a great way to incorporate vowel pairs that we have been working on.



Writing: This week during Writer's Workshop we read the story "Fancy Nancy" and learned how we can make plain words fancy. We made a chart of plain words and words that we could replace them with to make our writing better. The remainder of the week we continued learning and practicing writing opinion pieces. On Thursday we made a collage of other books we love to read and listen to as inspiration for another opinion writing.


We ended the week with reading the book "Hey Little Ant". Students had to write their opinion about how the book should end. Should the little boy step on the ant? Or should the little boy not step on the ant? They completed their writing with an illustration of the ant and the big shoe.

Math: This week we learned about ways to compose numbers. We used counters and number bonds to show different ways to make numbers, we also used our tens frame paddles to show ways to make numbers. We are learning a lot of different strategies of finding different ways to make numbers 1-9.




Vocabulary: This week's word was compose. Compose means to put numbers together to make a new number.

iPads: For ipads this week students used popplet to record ways to compose different numbers. Students started by rolling 1 or 2 dice to determine their number. Then they used 2 sided counters to show the ways to compose that number. They used pictures to then make their web in popplet.

Content: This week we continued to learn about insects. We completed entries in our butterfly journal that showed the caterpillars in the chrysalis and we labeled the parts of an insect. We also sorted pictures of insects and other bugs/animals that were not an insect.


SEL (Social Emotional Learning): Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

This week our focus has been on Honesty. This was our 2nd week in this particular unit. On Monday we used a chart to discuss the qualities of an honest person. This helped us understand that an honest person does more than just use words to tell the truth. On Tuesday we listened to different scenarios to determine if kiddos told the truth or not. If they were dishonest then we discussed ways they could have been more honest. 

On Wednesday we did a fun lesson about honesty where I was excited to pass out candy to the students. They held out their hands and I passed out green peas to each of them. They quickly realized that it was not candy and laughed when I told them I tricked them. I tried again and said I would give them a piece of candy this time, but I didn't. By the third time around, they didn't believe me. They saw green in my hand and they thought I was going to give them a pea again. So when we talked about why, we said that many times we say something that we think might be funny but not true. This is still lying and we are not being honest. The more we do that the more people do not trust us. 

We finished the week with illustrations of how we can be honest in different places. On Friday we read the story, "The Boy Who Saw Big Foot". This is a fun twist of the story the boy who cried wolf. The kids loved it and it was a great way to end our unit. 



NEXT WEEK:
Reading: Students will...
-learn about r controlled words and make lists of words including ar, er, ir, or, and ur.
-learn how to skip the word and come back. 

WritingStudents will...
-learn about different opinion starters. 
-continue writing opinion writing pieces. 

MathStudents will...
-learn about and solve addition story problems. 

ContentStudents will learn about the author Eric Carle. Students will learn about him and participate in craft rotations. 

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