K LIT: UNIT 9, Weeks 1-3

Learning Goals:

• I can read and understand texts.
• I can write about the texts I read.
• I know how I can help out at home.

Key Skills:

• This week our class will be reading stories about how children can help at home. Children will learn about taking responsibility for cleaning, caring for a pet, doing errands, and other chores.
  

Vocabulary: chores, contribute

• Let’s make a chore chart that shows how you contribute at home. What are things you can do to help out? Let’s write them down. You can feed our pet. Let’s write feed pet on the chore chart. What else can you do? You can set the table for dinner. Let’s write it on the chore chart. Then when you complete a chore, you can put a checkmark next to it.

High Frequency Words: help, too

• Can you think of sentences using the words help and too? I’ll write them down. For example, I help to take the trash out. I rake leaves, too. Now let’s read the sentences together. Can you underline help and too? Great work! Think of other chores you do. Use the words help and too in new sentences.
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Category Words: household furniture: bed, table, chair

• Let’s play “Simon Says.” I want you to act out a chore when I say Simon says. If I don’t say Simon says, stay in a frozen position. Ready?
  
• Simon says, “Make your bed.”
• Simon says, “Clean your desk.”
• Put your clothes away in the dresser. (Simon didn’t say!)
• Simon says, “Put your books on the shelf.”
• Wipe the table. (Simon didn’t say!)

Phonics: long a

• Let’s play a rhyming game. I am going to write the word bake. Can you think of words that rhyme with bake? That’s right! Cake, make, rake, and wake rhyme with the word bake. Can you write each word under bake? Let’s sound out each word. Great job! Now let’s think of words that rhyme with face.

Comprehension: Sequence (click the link to see the activity)

• Look at the pictures. Tell what Keisha did to help her dad. Use the words beginning, middle, and end to tell the events in order.

Learning Goals:

• I can read and understand texts.
• I can write about the texts I read.
• I know what good citizens do.

Key Skills:

• This week our class will be reading stories about how children can be good citizens. They will learn how to listen, share, help others, respect one another, work together, and take turns.
  

• Let’s talk about being good citizens. You say sentences using the words play and has. I’ll write down the sentences. For example, Good citizens play together. Jake has a toy to share with Jessie. Now let’s read the sentences together. Can you underline the words play and has? Great!

Vocabulary: citizen, respect

• Let’s think about how citizens show respect toward each other. For example, when we listen to others, we show respect. What else do good citizens do in a classroom? Yes, that’s right! Good citizens share toys and speak politely. How are you a good citizen at a playground? Yes! You take turns on the swings. You are a good citizen when you show respect.

• Let’s draw pictures of different kinds of animals, such as a hen, duck, dog, goose, cat, turkey, goat, horse, and sheep. Now we will sing, “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” Point to each animal when we sing about it.
• Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-i-ee-i-o!
• And on that farm he had a hen, Ee-i-ee-i-o!
• With a cluck-cluck here and a cluck-cluck there,
• Here a cluck, there a cluck, everywhere a cluck-cluck,
• Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee-i-ee-i-o!
• What animal would you like to sing about next?

• Let’s use magnetic letters to build words that have the long i sound. What letter can we place before -ide to make a word? That’s correct! You can place h in front of -ide to build the word hide. Can you choose another letter to put before -ide? Great!

Comprehension: Events: Cause and Effect (click the link to see the activity)

• Circle what happens when...

Learning Goals:

• I can read and understand text.
• I can write about the texts I read.
• I know how things in nature can be used to make new things.

Key Skills:

• This week our class will be reading stories about natural resources. Children will learn how they can use things in nature to create new things.
  

Vocabulary: natural resources, create

• Natural resources are things that come from the earth. A tree is a natural resource. We use the wood from the tree to create, or make things like paper and pencils. Can you think of things in our house made from a tree? That’s right. A wood table is made from a tree. Can you think of other natural resources? Water, stone, soil, and clay come from the earth so they are natural resources, too!

High-Frequency Words: where, look

• Can you think of a sentence using the word where? I will write it down. Here is one: Where does paper come from? Underline the word where. Good job! Let’s think of a sentence for the word look. Here is one: Look at the tree! Now underline the word look. Excellent! Let’s think of more sentences using the words where and look.

Category Words: food made from grain: bread, cereal, pasta

• Did you know that grain is a plant grown in soil, and soil is part of the earth? Let’s look in a magazine to find pictures of foods made from grain. Muffins, bagels, bread, and pizza crust are made of grain. I will help you cut out pictures of foods made from grain. You can glue the pictures onto this piece of paper to make a collage. You can label our collage, “Grain.” Nice work!

• Let’s play a guessing game. I’m thinking of a word that has the long o sound, and it is the opposite of yes. That’s right. It’s no. I’m thinking of another word that has the long o sound. It is a flower that smells like perfume. Yes! It’s a rose.

Comprehension: Details: Time Order (click the link to see the activity)

• What Comes First? Look at the pictures. Let’s think about how Earth’s natural resources are made into new things.