MRS. MORAGA'S 1ST GRADE CLASS



Language Arts Distance LearningMrs. Moraga’s KindergartenWeek 3: Week of April 20thBenchmark Advance resources located here:? Benchmark Advance (Unit 9 Week 1: Meeting Our Needs and Wants)*Given everything that is going on in the world now, I feel that this is an especially useful and appropriate theme for our language arts. We will be discussing our needs and wants as well as community helpers. This is a great way to discuss what is really important to us, how to be thankful for those who are serving our community at this time, and how we can help others.Letter: Xx & Zz (Yes, we have 2 letters this week.) Sight words: my & toLesson 1In this unit, we explore the things we need, and the things we want. Look at “Meeting Our Needs and Wants” p. 32-33 (Mentor Read Aloud book) The first 2 photos show things we need, and the 2nd two photos show things we want. We might want a kitten or a bike, but we don’t need them to live. Discuss needs and wants. Fold a paper in half and ask your child to draw/write 3 things s/he needs on one side and things s/he wants on the other. Discuss.Story: People Who Help Us (p.20 Shared Reading)Who are the helpers in this story? How do they help us? In your journal, draw and write about other helpers in our community. Color with at least 5 colors, label 5 things in your picture, and write 1 or 2 sentences about the helper/s. Make sure to begin each sentence with an uppercase letter, use spaces between words, and end with punctuation. If you want to, you could make a whole book about community helpers.Read: “Firefighters at Work” (Mentor Read Aloud p.34-37)This is an informational text. Informational text gives information about a topic. Listen for the key details about what firefighters do at work. This is your purpose for reading. Make a list of the key details in the story. What do firefighters do?Letter Xx: Listen to the Heidisongs video for Xx. Practice writing Xx. Print handwriting page or write on a white board or paper. Read the poetry poster “Max”. What words do you hear with the sound /x/?Decodable reader: Mr. MaxSight words: was & some (These are not in Benchmark, but are on the PVSD kindergarten list, so we do not have the worksheet or songs for these words.) Practice using these in sentences. Make flashcards for was and some. Give your child a sentence with a fill in the blank and see which sight word fits best. (ex: I _______ walking down the street when it started to rain. I see _____ cookies in the jar.)Lesson 2Story: A Gift for Mom (Mentor Read Aloud p.38-41)Authors often write about characters who have a problem they must solve. Can you name a character that we read about that had a problem and how they solved it?This story is realistic fiction. Although it is fiction (make-believe), the characters are like real people and the events could happen in real life. (Ex: A story about a talking dog is fiction. A story about taking a dog for a walk is realistic fiction.) Ask your child to come up with examples of fiction and realistic fiction.Writing: Yesterday we read stories about community helpers. We learned a little about police officers, mail carriers and firefighters. Can you name any other community helpers? (nurses, doctors, grocery clerks, dentists, teachers, etc.) Today you will write a narrative story about a community helper. (This is realistic fiction.)A narrative story must have characters, a setting, and a beginning, middle and end. Remember to use complete sentences that have a naming part (nouns-person, place or thing) and a telling part (verbs-action words). Read your sentence to someone else. Then expand on your sentence. Add more details to make the sentence more interesting.Ex: “The firefighter rides”.Expanded sentence: “The firefighter rides a big red truck.”Re-read: decodable reader” Mr. Max”, or choose from one of the leveled readers in the Benchmark library. (at bottom of Benchmark page)Sight words: Review the sight words. Try this game for fun.Spread out 10 or more sight word flashcards on a table or the floor so that you can see all of the words. Get a clean flyswatter or spatula. Parent calls out a sight word and the student slaps the card with the flyswatter. If they slap the correct word, they keep the card. If you play with more than 1 person, the first person to slap the word keeps the card. It is simple to make, but here is a similar game from Lakeshore Learning. Zz: Read the poetry poster “Baby Zigzag”. What words do you hear with the /z/ sound?Practice writing the letter Zz. Print out the page from the handwriting book, or just practice writing on paper or a white board.*It is important that you have your child practice reading to you and you read to them for at least 20 minutes per day.*Create a journal for your child. Have him/her draw a detailed picture, label the pictures, and write a sentence or two at least 3 times a week. Make sure to remind them to use capital letters where needed, spaces between words, and punctuation. This is great writing practice for them, a good way to express their feelings, and a good keepsake of what was going on during this time in their lives. ................
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