Miss. Bransfield generously gave each one of our kids a picture book to add to his/her own home collection.
What a wonderful surprise.
Spring is a season that lends itself to our life cycles theme wonderfully!
This week we began a four week integrated language unit on life cycles.
We are using plants as way to teach research strategies, scientific language, how to use writing tools, the features of non fiction text and extracting fact from fiction. Our goal is to give students the strategies for becoming researchers and writers independently.
Your child brought home his/her sunflower sprout. Please take care of it and help your child make observations as frequently as possible. Track it's growth and talk about ways to measure the plant.
Important books:
This weeks objectives...
Phonics:
- Attend to upper and lowercase letters in a sentence.
- Listen and differentiate long and short vowel sounds
- Sight words integration with writing. (sight word assessment will be given after vacation)
- Punctuation, periods for declarative sentences, question marks for interrogative sentences.
Comprehensions:
- Identifying main idea and supporting details
- Fact vs opinion
- Character traits
- Circular endings, when a story could begin again
- Making categorized lists
- Revising narratives
- Adding emotion to narratives (descriptors)
- Using similes and metaphors to help the reader.
Math:
- Subtraction facts to five fluency
- Measuring length, height, and capacity
- Standard unit of measure
Science:
- Parts of a plant
- What is a cycle
- Spring, observations
Guiding Questions:
Why does temperature impact the growth of plants?
Name some things that are living? How can you tell?
How can we measure liquid?
Why do authors use similies like, "as quick as a cricket"?
Can you use character traits to describe ...?
Tell me about the life cycle of a flower?
A look ahead ...
We will study the art work of Eric Carle and create a spring collage.
