Unit 1 Week 2 Preview

During week 2 we discuss how physical activity is an important part of our lives. We learn how activity keeps our bodies healthy and strong. Our oral vocabulary words are movement, energy, express, exhausted, and stretch. Our sight words are: it, over, too. We will analyze story structure to discover selections with patterned text. Examples of famous patterned text are Monday, Monday, I like Monday (Bill Martin Jr.), and The Important Book (Margaret Wise Brown). Ask your librarian for other examples. Patterned texts often become bedtime favorites and re-reading them is a good way to build fluency. We will not often use a patterned text for retelling purposes. We will read the West African folktale The Great Rope Tug and diagram the story together using a Flow Map to highlight the beginning, middle, and end. We will continue to encode and decode single syllable words with short vowels (a, e, i). We will listen to rhyme, movement, and rhythm in poetry.

In Social Studies we will look briefly to the original people of Australia and learn that a tradition is a special way of doing something. often repeated annually that becomes part of a people's culture.

In Science we will continue with the states of matter by observing a collection of solids and generating a list of properties.

In Math we will finish up our introduction to addition and begin topic 4 on an introduction to subtraction. We will see how closely subtraction is related to addition by finding missing parts (addends) of a whole number.

Start Smart Week 2 Preview

The next 5 days of instruction will be our 2nd week of Language Arts review. We will continue with sound spelling card review, proper letter formation as well as isolation of initial and final phonemes, and syllable segmentation. We will continue with rhyme identification and begin rhyme generation. Last week we briefly reviewed sequence of events as a strategy for analyzing story structure. This week we will briefly reintroduce the concepts of beginning, middle, and end of a narrative piece.

We will have our first topic test in Math on Wednesday. Look for test results to be posted towards the end of the week. We will begin the study of our second topic (time permitting) on Wednesday, comparing and ordering numbers. This topic reviews the ideas of 'greater than' and 'less than'. This is a short topic which means we will have our second Math test next week.

We will continue our introductory lessons of our violence prevention (Second Step) program. We are on our 3rd lesson. We are learning how to identify emotions based on observation in order to make it easier to foster friendships.

We will continue with last week's PE concepts and add spacial awareness and boundary recognition.