Phonemic Awareness/Heggerty:  In weeks 7-9, students will blend four phonemes with blends, isolate final phonemes including consonants and digraphs, and segment words into four phonemes. Students will add, delete, and substitute initial phonemes with mixed rimes. They will develop alphabet knowledge of L blends, S blends, L&S blends, and connect phonemes to graphemes.

Word Recognition/Letterland: Most WCPSS classrooms might complete their learning with Section 4: Consonant Blends. Should pacing allow, teachers are encouraged to begin instructing from Section 5: The Vowel Men and Magic e. Note that while open syllable words are included in kindergarten standards, magic e (or VCE) words are included in grade 1 standards. In Section 5 students will read short words with a single vowel in the final position (open syllables) and will spell CVC and VCE words correctly. They will be introduced to 3 more high frequency words.

Language Comprehension/Close Reading Lessons:  Students will engage in learning and discussion through interactive read-aloud and integrated speaking/language/writing experiences to build knowledge and vocabulary around the characteristics of animals and their habitats.

Writing: Students and teachers will be engaged in the Launch, Explore, Land explicit teaching framework with a focus in both foundational and composition lessons. Students continue practicing letter formation and expressing their thoughts through drawing and dictation.

Literacy Summary:

• Phonemic Awareness | Heggerty: Weeks 33-35
• Word Recognition | Letterland: Section 5: Units 9-13 149-162 (approximate)
• Language Comprehension | Close Reading Lessons: Topic 2: Amazing Animals (approximately 17-18 lessons)
• Writing | Letter Formation, Expressing thoughts through drawing and dictation

Math:

• Exploring Parts and Wholes by joining and separating within ten using addition and subtraction, number bars, solving math story problems, decomposing numbers 1-10. Students will continue to subitize up to 5 and focus on missing addends in math equation problems. Students will compose (put together) and decompose (take apart) numbers. Use objects to identify the number. Write numbers 1–20. Students will identify fluency of subtraction and addition in math 0–5. 

Social Studies

• Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to locate places in the classroom, school, community, and around the world.
• Identify physical features of places using maps, globes, and/or digital representations.
• Identify locations in the classroom, community, and around the world with positional words.
• Explain the ways people around the world use natural resources.
• Explain how the environment influences people to move from place to place.

Science:

• Students know plants are living organisms.
• Students know there are different types of plants (e.g., tree, vine, shrub, grass, fern, moss)   
• Students observe a variety of one type of plant (e.g., trees- e.g., pine and oak)
• Students identify similarities and differences between two plants. (e.g., bushes- e.g., rose, holly)
• Students define and recognize observable characteristics of plants (e.g., color, texture, structure, size, smell, shape)
• Students compare (similarities and differences) the characteristics of the same type of plant (e.g., one tree has big green leaves and the other tree has big brown leaves; both trees have rough bark) either through direct observations or obtained from media.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher if you have questions or concerns.

Mrs. Carter-  ccarter2@wcpss.net

Ms. Ellis- mellis2@wcpss.net

Ms. Maldenado- smaldonado2@wcpss.net