Weekly Focus 12 2016

Haywood weekly Focus 12
Pre-K Weekly Focus: What Do We Know About Trees?
Oct. 24-28
Language: Scholars comprehend language.
Math: Scholars count objects.
Science: Scholars use tools to measure.

Subject
RLA
Kindergarten Weekly Focus October 24-28
Scholars will write a letter for most consonant and short- vowel sounds.
Scholars will add details to their writing by listening to suggestions and questions from their peers.
L.K.2c- Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds.
W.K.5- With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from
peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed. (detail, question, suggestion)
RL. K.1- With prompting and support, ask and answer key details in a text.
RF.K.2d- Isolate and pronounce the initial media vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in CVC words.
SL.K.3-Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is
not understood.
SL.K.2- Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through
other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if
something is not understood (confirm, clarify, media)
Activities for home: Practice reading sight words, letter names, and sounds. Practice writing and
drawing about books read at home. READ, READ, READ!

Math Scholars will display 1:1 correspondence by counting objects 1-10.
K.CC.A.1- Number Correspondence 1-10
K.CC.A.1- Count to 100 by ones and tens (0-40)
Activities for home: Practice counting objects to 20. Practice writing and saying your numbers as
well.
Social Studies
Scholars will identify roles of authority figures at home, at school, and in government.
K.20- Identify roles of authority figures at home, at school, and in government to include
parents, school, principal, volunteers, police officers, fire and rescue workers, mayor, governor,
and president.
K.1- Describe familiar people, places, things, and events with clarifying detail about a student’s
home, school and community.
K.21- Explain the purpose of rules and laws.
K.2- Summarize people and places referenced in picture books, stories, and real life situations with
supporting detail.

Social Studies: Week 27
Activities for home: Have conversations about the importance of authority figures.
Assessments
-ELA- Writing letters for the letter sounds.
-Math- Number Correspondence to 10
-Social Studies- Identify authority figures and draw who they are.

Language Arts:
Standards:
*L.1.2d Use conventional spelling for
words with common spelling patterns and
for frequently occurring irregular words.
*R1.3 Describe characters, settings, and
major events in a story, using key details.
* W.1.2 Write informative/explanatory
texts in which they name a topic, supply
some facts about the topic and provide
some sense of closure.
Objectives:
*I can read and write words with
short o by peeling off the word into
individual letter sounds and pushing the
sounds together quickly.
*I can understand the sequence of events
and describe the events of a story in the
correct order.
*I can use text evidence to analyze and
evaluate while reading.
* I can write an informative text that
names a topic and includes facts about
that topic by using a thinking map to plan
my writing.
Journeys Lesson 8:
A Musical Day
Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Skill: Sequence of Events, Narrator
Fluency: Natural Pauses
Vocabulary: Define Words
Writing: Informative
Grammar: Statements
Word Study: on, got, fox, pop, not, hop
High Frequency Words:
her, she, now, our, today, our, would

Mathematics:
Unit 4: Addition and Subtraction: Take
Apart/Put Together
Go Math 4.3 Use Think Addition to
Subtract
Standard: 1.OA.B.4 Understand
subtraction as an unknown-addend
problem.
Objective: I can use addition as a strategy
to subtract numbers within 20 by
completing a sentence frame: “An
example of how you can use addition to
find the answer to a subtraction fact is:
_________.”
Unit 4 Assessment Thursday
Unit 5: Addition and Subtraction Using
Place Value
Go Math 6.2 Count by 10’s to to120
Standard: 1.NBT.A.1 Count to 120, starting
at any number less than 120. In this range,
read, and write numerals and represent a
number of objects with a written numeral.
Objective: I can count by tens from any
number to extend a counting sequence up
to 120 by completing a sentence frame:
“As you count by tens to 120, numbers
change in this way __________.”

Science: Weather Unit
Standard:
*GLE 0107.8.1 Gather and interpret
daily weather data.
Objective:
*I can gather and interpret daily
weather data by looking outside
and using sentence frames:
It is _____ (hot/warm/cold) outside.
There is ________________
(strong wind, some wind, no wind).
It is _____________________
(foggy, cloudy/clear).
There is _________________
(no precipitation, rain, hail, snow).

Social Studies:
Unit 4: Our Country- The United States of
America
*Standard:
1.17 Identify the shapes of Tennessee and the
United States on maps and globes.
Objective:
I can identify the shape of the United States
and the shape of Tennessee on maps and
globes.
*Standard:
1.19 Locate Washington D.C. and Nashville on
a United States map.
Objective:
I can locate Washington D.C. on a United
States map.
*Standard:
1.20 Distinguish the difference between a
continent, mountain, river, lake, and ocean.
Objective:
I can distinguish the difference between a
continent, mountain, river, lake, and ocean.
*Standard:
1.22 Construct a map showing the Atlantic
Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Washington DC,
Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Mississippi River, Cumberland River,
Tennessee River, Great Smokey Mountains,
Rocky Mountains, Center Hill Lake, Norris
Lake, Reel Foot Lake, and Clingman’s Dome.
1.24 Summarize in their own words that a map
is a representation of a space, such as the
classroom, the school, the neighborhood,
town, city, state, country, or world.

3 rd Grade Weekly Focus October 24th-28th, 2016
Subject
ELA
Weekly Skills to Practice
This week in 3 rd grade, students will work on asking and answering questions in a text. With
this strategy they will be able to apply it to the skill of cause (why something happens) and
effect (what happens) in a given text. They will be using multi-flow thinking maps to help
them master this skill.
Comprehension Skill/Strategy: Questioning and Cause and Effect
Writing Focus: W.3.1 Opinion Writing Students will create opinion pieces on topics that
support point of views with reason.
Vocabulary Focus: (Social Studies)- Nashville, monument, governor, constitution, legislative,
judicial, executive, Bill of Rights, Natchez Trace, Cumberland River, Limestone
Grammar Focus: Homophones, Quotation Marks in a Dialogue
Standards: RI.3.3-Describe relationships between a series of historical events, scientific ideas
or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time,
sequence and cause/effect.
SL.3.1a- Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly

draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas
under discussion.
RL.3.1- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly
to the text as a basis for answers.
W.3.1 -Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
L.3.2c- Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
Additionally, students should be reading for 20 minutes each night. They should be
recording what they are reading in their agenda nightly.
Additionally, students should be reading for
20 minutes each night. They should be
recording what they are reading in their
agenda nightly.
Social
Studies
Students will continue studying North America while focusing specifically on Tennessee.
Students will identify and distinguish Tennessee landforms, climates, and population. Students
will also work towards learning more about major cities found in Tennessee.
Main focus this week will be Middle Tennessee from Week 8 in Studies Weekly.
Standards: 3.27 Compare and contrast landforms, climates, population, natural resources, and
major cities of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee.

Science
Standard: SPI 6.1: Identify the major components of the solar system (sun, planets, and
moons).
Objective: I can identify and describe the major characteristics of the outer planets.
Students will learn about the origin and structure of the universe, Earth’s places in the
cosmos, and observable motions and patterns in the sky, as well as major components of
our solar system (Outer planets) and basic facts.
Vocabulary
Solar system Revolve Asteroid Planet
Magnify Orbit Rings Inner Planet
Telescope Rotate Outer Planet
Space Probe Revolution Gas Giant
Star Sun Moon

Math
Standards: 3.MD.C.7 a, b Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition
a. Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side length by tiling it, and show that the
area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.
b. Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition. Multiply side lengths to find
areas of
rectangles with whole-number context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and
represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.
Objective: I can find the area by tiling a rectangle to get the length and the
width, using repeated addition, and use my multiplication to check my
answer.
Tiling is drawing the lines for the length and width to create unit squares. This is
similar to an array.
Unit Vocabulary
Polygon
What is the missing side?
Quadrilateral Area= 28 square units
Square 4xn=28 4
Rectangle The missing side equals 7.
Rhombus
Parallelogram
Area
Plane figure
Square Unit
Area = 18
Area = 3x6
Area=18 Square units
Area = 10 square
units
2+2+2+2+2=1
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Computer
Resources
Additionally: Students need to be practicing multiplication facts daily.
They have been given multiplication cards for home practice.
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News You
can Use
Upcoming Dates to Remember:
Haywood’s Book Fair is Oct. 27th-Nov. 4th: Look for a flyer from Mrs. Mitchell
later this month!
Haywood t-shirts are available for you to buy for $10 cash every Friday from
7:30 – 8:00 in the gym by the PTO!
November 8 th Parent Teacher Conference day. Students will not report to
school.

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