Word Families: Schedulin’ Sunday

Happy Schedulin’ Sunday! This week we’re continuing our Community Helpers Research Project, we’re kicking off Word Family Bootcamp to practice word families and we’re working on addition to 5!

Word Families Lesson Plans

As always, you can download our weekly lesson plans here:

Community Helpers Research Project

This week we are continuing our Communty Helpers Research Project! This is always a favorite for the kids becuase they can make such strong connections to the community helpers.  We focus on 1 community helper a day with a read aloud, graphic organzier, labeling and writing.  We also throw in some directed drawings! 

This week we’re learning about construction workers, teachers, mail carriers, firefighters and trash collectors.

Word Families BOOTCAMP

This week we are kicking off our Word Family Bootcamp! After 26 days of ABC BOOTCAMP, we now use the sounds and letters we mastered and apply them to spelling, reading and writing CVC words! We use word families as a scaffold for reading CVC words because the rhyming helps support our students.

For word families using Word Family Bootcamp, we do a 2 day routine. Day 1 is a circle chart. Day 2 is word building, blending and writing.

To provide students extra support and practice, we use our differentiated word family decodable readers. The readers are included in Word Family Bootcamp.

For more on word families and Word Family Bootcamp, check out this post!

Read It UP! Spookley The Square Pumpkin

This week our Read It Up story is Spookley The Square Pumpkin! We are focusing on story maps, adjectives and text evidence!

For more on our Read It Up! comprehension resources, check out this post:

Poem And Sight Word Reader: Community Helpers

The week our shared reading sight word reader is about Community Helpers!

Math: Addition To 5

This week in math we are practicing addition to 5. This week we’re spending two days adding spiders. We have some little spider webs and spider rings. The studetns put the spider on the web to solve addition problems. We are also working in small groups to practice addition.

Friday is always a Counting collection so we can work on counting, one to one correspondence and different ways to count.

Mad Science: Dancing Colors

This week our Mad Science experiment is dancing colors! We make colors dance using food coloring and dish soap!