Happy Schedulin’ Sunday! This week we’re reading Brave Irene to work on character traits and continuing Vowel Bootcamp! We’re also working on greater than less than and comparing numbers and learning about teeth!
Brave Irene And Teeth Lesson Plans
Here are our lesson plans for the week! Simply click the image to download our lesson plans for Brave Irene, teeth and Vowel Bootcamp!
AND….our lesson plans are now clickable! You can click on any book or resource and go directly to that creation or book!
Teeth Research Project
This week we are learning about teeth with our Teeth Research Project. For this research project, we make a schema map and tree maps about teeth, dentists and the tooth fairy! And we write about each of those using our graphic organizers!
We’re also using our Show Me Your Teeth for math and literacy centers!
As part of our teeth research project, we create a smile board to see if students can identify themselves and their friends based on just the smile!
Vowel Bootcamp
Then we are continuing Vowel Bootcamp! Our focus is on CVC-E words. We do one vowel a week. Monday is a circle chart, Tuesday is word building, Wednesday is word writing in whole group using whiteboards. Thursday the students do word writing on their own. Friday students do a word/picture match.
For small group work, we use our Vowel Bootcamp decodable readers!
For more on Vowel Bootcamp, including videos of Vowel Bootcamp in action, check out this post:
Read It Up: Brave Irene
This week we are reading Brave Irene and using Read It Up! Brave Irene! This text is require by our district as about of our IFL unit on exemplary comprehension lessons. For Brave Irene, we focus on character traits and problem/solution. We will do a story map, problem/solution chart and write about Irene using text evidence.
For more on our Read It Up! comprehension resources, check out this post:
Math: Greater Than Less Than/Comparing Numbers
This week we’re continuing to work on greater than less than and comparing numbers.
We work on this skill in our calendar time so this week our focus is on writing the correct symbol to show greater than less than. This week we will use our Math It Up: Comparing Numbers creation and our focus will be in small groups.
We end our comparing numbers unit with a true false sort. This activity is a critical thinking/higher order thinking activity that really shows studetns understanding of this concept.
And yes, if you’re going to compare numbers to practice greater than less than, you must dress like an alligator.
For more ideas and activities for comparing numbers, check out this blog post:
Foodie Fun Friday And Mad Science Thursday
Mad Science Thursday is all about brushing teeths….or eggs. We stain hard boiled eggs in soda and then we brush them clean!
For all the details on how to make your own sparkling gems, check out this post:
Foodie Fun Friday will be a groundhog snack in honor of Groundhog Day!
FREE Poem And Emergent Reader
These are the creations we are using this week:
