Week at a Glance
We will begin i-Ready diagnostic testing this week.
ELA
- To introduce glued sounds: ank, ink, onk, unk
- To blend and read words with ng or nk
- To segment and spell words with ng or nk
- To read with accuracy and prosody
- To describe the connections between the story and the author’s note
- To identify and use determiners such as articles and demonstratives
- To generate and answer questions about Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea
- To identify the main topic and retell key details of sections of Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea
- To describe the purpose of information in an informative paragraph
- To define words by category and one key attribute, using sea horse
- To complete a Sentence Frame describing an attribute a sea horse has
MATH
- To use defining attributes to identify and describe circles
- To compare two-dimensional shapes
- To use two-dimensional shapes to make a composite shape
SCIENCE
- In this Read-Along lesson, Amy notices that baby animals look a lot like the adults in their families—and then discovers that she does, too! The lesson includes a short exercise where students get moving by acting like farm animals.
- Students work together to match pictures of animals with their babies.
RELIGION
- To tell that the Beatitudes are ways to live in the world
- To tell that Jesus gave us the Lord’s Prayer
- To pray the first half of the Lord’s Prayer
- To explain that being kind to others is doing God’s will
- To define Beatitudes, heaven, Kingdom of God, and prayer