Weekly Focus 16 2017

Haywood Weekly Focus 16, 2017
PreK Weekly Focus: What Do We Know About Pets?
January 9-13
Literacy: Scholars will make their name and name the letters and sounds.
Math: Scholars will count and compare.
Social-Emotional: Scholars will balance the rights and needs of others.

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Subject Kindergarten Weekly Focus January 9-January 13
ELA
Scholars will, with prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the
story in which they appear.
Scholars will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose
informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some
information about the topic.
RI.K.6 Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each.
RI.K.5 Recognize common types of texts (story books, poems).
RI.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story
in which they appear.
W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory
texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the
topic.
Activities for home: Practice reading sight words, letter names, and sounds. Practice writing and
drawing about books read at home. READ, READ, READ!

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Math Scholars will write numbers from 0-15, represent a number of objects with a written number 0-15.
K.CC.A.3 Write numbers 0-15, represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-15.
K.CC.A.1 Count to 100 by ones and tens (Goal is up to 60).
Social Studies
Activities for home: Practice writing numbers 0-15 and counting numbers 0-60.
Scholars will compare family traditions and customs among different cultures.
K.3 Compare family traditions and customs among different cultures.
K.2 Summarize people and places referenced in picture books, stories, and real life situations with
supporting detail.
Activities for home: Have conversations about your families traditions and customs. Have your
child summarize places you go together (grocery trip, park, Walmart, etc.)

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Language Arts:
**Standard:
RF.1.3c Know final _e and common
long vowel team conventions for
representing long vowel sounds.
Objective:
I can read and write long a words
with a silent e.
**Standard:
RI1.3. Describe characters, settings,
and major events in a story, using
key details.
Objectives:
I can use text evidence and prior
knowledge to draw conclusions
about a story.
I can infer and predict while reading
a story to aid comprehension.
**Standard:
W 1.1 Write opinion pieces in which
they introduce the topic or name
the book they are writing about,
state an opinion, supply a reason for
the opinion, and provide some
sense of closure.
Objective:
Journeys Lesson 14:
Text: The Big Race
Genre: Fantasy
Strategy: Infer/Predict
Skill: Conclusions/Cause and Effect
Fluency: Expression
Vocabulary: Shades of Meaning
Writing: Opinion
Grammar: Verbs and Time
Word Study: came, make, brave, late,
gave, shape
High Frequency Words: four, over, two,
five, starts, watch, into, three

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I can write my opinion about a topic
and give reasons for my opinion in
complete sentences.
Mathematics:
Standard for the Week: 1.OA.C.6
Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency
for addition and subtraction within 10. Use
strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8
+ 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a
number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 =
10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition
and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one
knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but
easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by
creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 =
13).
*Monday 1/9/17
Objective: I can use doubles to create
equivalent, but easier sums.
Go Math 3.4 Use Doubles to Add
*Tuesday1/10/17
Objective: I can use doubles plus one and
doubles minus one as strategies to find
sums within 20.
Go Math 3.5 Doubles Plus One and
Doubles Minus One
*Wednesday 1/10/17
Objective: I can use the strategies count
on, doubles, doubles plus one, and
doubles minus one to practice addition
facts within 20.
Go Math 3.6 Practice the Strategies
*Thursday 1/11/17
Objective: I can use a ten frame to add ten
and an addend less than ten.
Go Math 3.7 Add Ten and More
*Friday 1/12/17 1.OA.C.6

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Objective: I can use make ten as a strategy
to find sums within 20.
Go Math 3.8 Make a Ten to Add
Science:
GLE.0107.9.1
**Standard: Classify objects
according to their physical
properties.
GLE 0107.9.2
**Standard: Distinguish between
the properties and solids and
liquids.
Objective: I can classify and
compare and contrast solids and
liquids by using a Venn Diagram
based on their size, shape, color,
flow, ability to attract magnets, and
appearance when mixed.

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Social Studies:
Unit 4: Our Country the United States
Standards:
Culture:
1.2 Define multiculturalism as many different
cultures living within a community, state, or
nation.
Geography:
1.17 Identify the shapes of Tennessee and the
United States on maps and globes.
1.19 Locate Washington, D.C. and Nashville on
a United States map.
1.20 Distinguish the difference between a
continent, mountain, river, lake, and ocean.
1.22 Construct a map showing the Atlantic
Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Washington D.C.,
Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Mississippi River, Cumberland River,
Tennessee River, Great Smoky Mountains,
Rocky Mountains, Center Hill Lake, Norris
Lake, Reelfoot Lake, and Clingmans Dome.
History:
1.39 Use informational text to help describe the
importance of celebrating these national holidays
such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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.

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Second Grade Weekly Focus
1/9/17-1/13/17
Essential Question: Why is it important to keep trying even if
something is difficult to do?

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Phonics
Long I (i, igh, ie, y)
Final syllable le
Topic Standards I Can…
RF.2.3a distinguish long and
short vowels when reading onesyllable
words.
RF.2.3b know spelling-sound
correspondences for vowel
teams.
RF.2.3c decode two-syllable
words with long vowels.
Strategies:
Sight word review
-Picture sorts
-Making words
-Sound boxes
-Analogy chart
-chunk big words
-high frequency
-Word cards
-Decodable reader
-Model fluency
Connect sounds to writing and
dictate sentences.
Vocabulary
I can acquire and use new vocabulary
words.
The crowd cheered for Jackie
Robinson.

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RL.2.2 Recount stories and
determine their message,
lesson, or moral.
RL.2.10 Read and comprehend
literature.
I can identify the order of events
in a story.
Comprehension
Main Idea and Details
Target Skill: Sequence of Events
I can retell what happened in a
story by telling the order in which
things happen.
Formal and Informal Language
Vizualization
Supplemental Literature:
My Brother Martin by Christine King
Farris
Teammates by Peter Golenbock
Baseball Saved Us by Ken
Monchizuki
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her
People to Freedom by Carole Boston
Weatherford
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story
From the Underground Railroad by
Ellen Levine
Sit In: How Four Stood Up by Sitting
Down by Jane Addams
The Drinking Gourd (Essential Lit-
Dismukes)
Biblioburro: A True Story from
Columbia by Janette Winter

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The Fantastic Undersea Life of
Jacques Cousteau
Martin’s Big Words by Doreen
Rappaport
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Ceasar
Chavez by Kathleen Krull
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert
Coles
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story
from Iraq by Janette Winter
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by
Verna Aardema
A Story A Story by Gail E. Haley

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Strategies:
-Five finger retell
-Recall info. (BME)
-Retell events in sequence
-Discuss character’s feelings
Grammar
L.2.1 Demonstrate command of
the conventions of standard
English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.
W.2.1 Write opinion pieces in
which they introduce the topic
I Can...
determine if nouns are singular or
plural to identify subject-verb
agreement.

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Writing:
Opinion Writing
or book they are writing about,
state an opinion, supply reasons
that support the opinion, using
linking words (i.e because, and,
also) to connect opinion and
reasons, and provide a
concluding statement or section.
Math:
2.MD.A.2- Measure the length of
an object twice, using length
units for two measurements…
I can identify an opinion about the
text or topic.
I can produce and identify at least
two supporting reasons for the
opinion.

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Social Studies:
Unit 5: Famous Americans
2.32
Participate in shared research using
biographies to interpret the
significance of contributions made
by people of the United States,
recounting or describing key ideas
and details from the texts. Teachers
may choose any biographies.
2.33
With guidance and support from
adults, use a variety of digital tools
to produce and publish a writing
piece in collaboration with peers on
a famous American to describe how
his or her accomplishments were
significant.
2.39
Summarize the importance of
commemorative months including
Black History, Women’s History,
Hispanic Heritage, and American
Indian Heritage.
Weekly Reader: Week 16
I can research a Famous American in
the United States and share their
contributions with the class.
Websites
www.kidinfo.com
www.brainpopjr.com
kids.usa.gov/socialsocialstudiesforkids
.com
www.pebblego.com
Resources:
Journeys Anchor Text:
Helen Keller (T314)

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Informational Text:
Jackie Robinson (T164)
Read Aloud: Doctor Salk’s Treasure
(T214)
Informational Text: Heroes Then and
Now (T464)
Read Aloud: Steve Jobs: Inventor
(T410)

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3 rd Grade Weekly Focus January 9-13, 2017
Subject
ELA
Weekly Skills to Practice
For the next 2 weeks, 3 rd grade ELA students will be focusing on MAKING
CONNECTIONS and then being able to combine it with the skill of SYNTHESIZING in
weeks to come. Those connections will first be broken down into students being
able to apply it in 3 different ways: TEXT TO SELF, TEXT TO TEXT and TEXT TO
WORLD. Next, student will be able to avoid making surface connections, and use
higher order thinking skills to making deeper connections to a given text.
Comprehension Skill/Strategy: Summarizing, Determining Importance, and Main Idea
Grammar Focus: Using apostrophes in contraction words

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Standards: SL.3.1.d
Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
SL.3.2
Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information
presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and
orally.
L.3.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.
Writing Focus:
Standard: W.3.3-Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events
using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Additionally, students should be reading for 20 minutes each night. They should be
recording what they are reading in their agenda nightly.

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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 begin studying Europe. Student will be able to distinguish European
culture, physical features and landforms from this country. Studies Weekly Weeks:
16 and 17
Vocabulary Focus: (Social Studies)- Europe, culture, architecture, philosophy, Ukraine,
Germany
Standards: 3.39 Describe the diverse but unified nature of people within a continent
or region, identifying the distinct contribution made by their culture including
language, clothing, food, art, beliefs, customs, and music.

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Science
Standard: GLE 0307.Inq.4 Identify and interpret simple patterns of evidence to
communicate the findings of multiple investigations Identify tools needed to
investigate specific questions. Analyze and communicate findings from multiple
investigations of similar phenomena to reach a conclusion.
Objective: I can identify magnetic and nonmagnetic objects.
Vocabulary:
Magnet
Attract
Magnetic Poles
Temporary Magnets
Permanent Magnets
Magnetism

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Mat
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Standards: 3.G.A.2 Partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of
each part as a unit fraction of the whole. For example, partition a shape into 4
parts with equal area, and describe the area of each part as 1/4 of the area of the
shape.
3.NF.A.1 Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is
partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of
size 1/b. (Grade 3 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2,
3, 4, 6, and 8).
Objectives:
I can read, write, and model fractions that represent more than one part of a whole
that is divided into equal parts.
I can use a fractions to name one part of a whole that is
divided into equal parts.
I can identify equal parts of a whole.
Academic
Vocabulary
Polygon
Length
Perimeter
area
Additionally: Students need to be
multiplication facts daily. They have been
multiplication cards for home practice.
child what facts they are working on!
practicing
given
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Resource
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BrainPop Jr.
www.brainpopjr.com
Username: eaglet
Password: eaglet
Flocabulary
www.flocabulary.com
Username: westmiddlestudent4
Password: westmiddlestudent4
IXL website
Khan Academy website
Learn Zillion website
News
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Upcoming Dates to Remember:
January 10th Report cards will be issued.
January 16 th will be MLK Holiday = NO SCHOOL!

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