SECOND TRIMESTER LESSONS
Transcript of SECOND TRIMESTER LESSONS
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January 2021
SECOND TRIMESTER LESSONS
Language Arts Letters Mm, Dd, Kk, Ee, Gg, Oo, Ll, Ff, Bb, Uu - letter name, letter sounds - beginning sound in picture words - trace, write - Stories: Listening, Comprehension, Speaking and Sequencing Skills Mm - Moses Dd - The Donkey That No One Can Ride Kk - A Pocket Full of Kisses Ee - The Elves and the Shoemaker Gg - The Selfish Giant Oo - The Grumpy Old Ox Ll - The Three Little Pigs Ff - The Frog Prince Bb - The Miracle of the Bread, the Fish and the Boy Uu - The Ugly Duckling CVC Word Families Pre-primer Sight Words: Dolch pre-primer 40 sight words Sentence and Story Composition Reading Comprehension Opposites 2 Real and Make Believe: Analyzing story events
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SECOND TRIMESTER LESSONS Mathematics Colors: Reading color words Shapes 2: Trapezoid, Pentagon, Hexagon, Octagon + shapes 1 Sorting: Same and Different: by kind Numerals 11-20 - numeral name and quantities - trace, write - counting with one on one correspondence - Stories: Santa’s Eleven Months Off, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Bean Thirteen, Fourteen Animals That Are Definitely Not An Octopus, Fifteen Flamingos, Sixteen Cows, Seventeen Things I am Not Allowed to Do, Emily’s Eighteen Aunts, Nineteen Girls and Me, Twenty Pigs - showing the numeral in many ways Addition up to the sum of 10 Subtraction from the minuend of 10 - hands on using manipulative - mental Math—memorizing basic facts - paper and pen computation (with pictures or objects) - word problem
Let’s Investigate (Science and Social Studies) Winter Season—weather, celebrations, animal behaviors (hibernate, migrate, adapt) Continents (map and globe) Oceans (map and globe) Animals– habitats, life cycle, nocturnal and diurnal, hatch from egg and born alive Martin Luther King Jr. African American History Month Groundhog Day Valentine’s Day Mardi Gras Presidents’ Day
Religion Prayers Advent, Christmas, The Holy Family, The Mother of God The Epiphany Lent St. Patrick Year of St. Joseph Stories of God’s Love leaflets Sunday Gospel
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Note: Study pair of opposites for oral testing. Opposites
1. strong-weak 2. clean-dirty 3. over-under 4. long-short 5. hot-cold 6. light-dark 7. slow-fast 8. old-young 9. rich-poor 10.laugh-cry 11.white-black 12.fat-thin 13.tall-short 14.wet-dry 15.empty-full 16.sad-happy 17.big-small 18.left-right 19.awake-asleep 20.many-few 21.open-close
22. good - bad 23. talk - listen 24. stop - go 25. inside - outside 26. soft - hard 27. high - low 28. smile - frown 29. push - pull 30. loud - quiet 31. front - back 32. rough - smooth 33. sunny - rainy
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Pre-Primer Sight Words: Practice reading every day.
a and away big blue can come down find for funny go help
here I in is it jump little look make me my not one
play red run said see the three to two up we where yellow you
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Note: THIS IS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO ALREADY READ ALL THE PRE-PRIMER WORDS. This is not included in the grading.
Primer Sight Words: Practice reading every day.
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SECOND TRIMESTER
Wearing of complete uniform is a must for all. Velcro shoes is a must every day including gym day and tag days.
Note: In case of rain or snow, your child may come
in snow/rain boots but must have the school shoes to change in the classroom.
HOMEWORK— Please…. All Pre-K4 students are expected to write their names independently. Have your child
write his/her full name before doing the activity. PRE-K3 only. If your child doesn’t know how to write yet, please have your child
trace his/her name like I do. I use high lighter. Read the direction to your child. Do the first item together for sample. Use pencil for tracing or writing. Use regular crayon for coloring and high lighting
(sight word worksheet). Pre-K 4 only. Please do not wr ite for your child anymore. I will send you a note
if you will be the one to write your child’s responses. Homework is due the next day or on the date I wrote on the paper. Encourage your child to complete his/her work neatly. Please check front and back of worksheets to avoid incomplete work. Check Khan Academy Kids daily. This is the digital part of homework reinforce-
ment. I record your children’s completed work. Pre-K 4 only. Sight Word Readers. Please return sight word readers in your
child’s book bag after each use. I call them for individual reading during naptime then I replace the readers. Please reinforce the following at home:
- read the title; gently turn the pages; emphasis on sight words and other short words; ask simple questions
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DAILY HOMEWORK
Practice writing lines: standing, sleeping, slanting and curve lines (for Pre-K 3 and those who are still struggling to form letters/
numbers) Practice writing your full name, letters and numbers especially those
that we already studied Study letters and letter sounds
Practice reading sight words; CVC word families Memorize details in your Personal Information (full name, age, birth-
day, address and telephone number). Answering in complete sentences is highly encouraged.
Study Pair of Opposites Try to memorize addition/subtraction facts 5 (sample chart)
Read/Listen to at least one bedtime story every night and be able to answer simple comprehension questions ask by your mom or dad
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VIRTUAL LEARNING
Uniform: Please wear school’s top (red, black, white polo shirt or complete uniform).
Video: Has to be on all the time except break time. Schedule: Please log in on time. 9:01 - your
child is marked late. Please let me know why your child is logged off before dismissal.
Monday to Thursday - dismissal is 12noon Friday—dismissal is 11:40 a.m. Break time is reduced to 20 minutes. At this time, they are already fully adjusted to the routine of vir-tual learning. Thank you for all your help and cooperation.