Week 11: Nov 15-Nov 19

MATH
Number Talks
  • estimating amounts using clues
Adding and Subtracting
  • by breaking numbers into their place value
  • by drawing base 10 blocks
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
  • building independent reading stamina​ with levelled books
Word Work
  • New groups! 
    • Yellow: Abby, Anthony, Sheldon, William
    • Orange: DJ, Leo, Sophia
    • Green: May, Zaryean, Katrina, Jude
    • Blue: Odin, CJ, Erish, Shuyuan
  • Yellow Sort 10 (-en, et, eg words)
  • Orange Sort 13 (/h/, /s/, and /sh/)
  • Green Sort 31 (-ill, -all, -ell words)
  • Blue Sort 11 (short CVC and long CVCe words with all vowels)
Story Making
  • developing and improving oral language skills
  • retelling a story
  • incorporating new skills into story making
  • cross-curricular with Social-Emotional learning and Science
Journals
  • write facts about spiders
  • write about what you learned from our Mystery Doug episode about trees and leaves
SCIENCE
Food Chains, Webs & Pyramids (click to see resources)
  • trophic pyramids video and interactive notebook page
  • Awesome song about the food chain/energy cycle
  • Mystery Doug: Why don't all trees lose their leaves in the fall?
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING
​Second Step Lesson 3
  • learn to speak up for yourself by being assertive