We have been exploring text features of nonfiction books, such as tables of contents, indexes,chapter headings, and photographs.  Students have been using wondering and making connections to make sense of texts.  The popcorn words we have been learning are color words such as: red, blue, yellow, pink, black, orange, white, & brown.  We've been making words in the short u word families, -un, -ug, -um, -ub.  In math students have been working at math centers on addition and subtraction fluency, shapes, numbers, counting, patterns, etc.
                                                                   A Peek At Next Week 

Reading: Unit 9: Revisiting the Reading Life

New Vocabulary: wide, clear, construct, structure, pleased, soggy, unkind, kind

Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, enormous,  assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, slam, filthy, concerned, moan, enormous, observe, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, wade, mend, cozy, straight, evening, complete, various, edge, fits, cupboard, amusing, upset, grin, stuck, unpleasant, pleasant, crowded, uncrowded, doubtful, confident, courageous, persistent, glance, peer, collide, disappointed, signal, pursue, disappear, warn, healthy, prevent, load, important, useful, similar, repair, communicate, active, haul, switch, swiftly, prey, object, unusual, fact, assist, injure, recover, clever, wild, tame, creep, pounce, travel, transportation, depart, land, visible, entire, remarkable, future

Word Families: review short vowel families
Phonemic Awareness: 3 letter s-blends scr, str, squ, spr, spl, review digraph sounds wh, ch, sh, th & l-blends bl, cl, fl,gl, pl, sl & r-blends br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr & s-blends sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying final & medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, language awareness
Math: addition and subtraction fluency, counting by 5's & 10's to 100
Handwriting: practicing and reviewing all letters & numbers
Popcorn Words: black, orange, white, brown
Library: Mondays (book return/check out) and Wednesdays
Art: Tuesdays
Music: Thursdays and Fridays
Gym & Recess: Everyday
Things to review and practice: 
phonics: recognition & sounds of/making words with s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v, y, x, oo (2 sounds), ch, sh,ng, th, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar 

Counting: forward from 1 and random numbers to 100 and backward from 20. Counting by 10's to 100. Counting by 5's to 100, Number formation, recognition, place value and counting objects #1-20,
Practice popcorn words: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too, ran, into, for, little, and, yes, go, no, so, the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, nine, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come, do, all, there, who, what, where, say, away, play, they, eat, please, want, with, came, make, ate, ride, was, saw, are, well, pretty, funny, under, find, blue, red, yellow, pink

                                                                  Read together :)