• December Curriculum 
     
           **  Reading Logs**:  Please read daily with your child to foster a love for reading. Encourage your child to look at the illustrations and talk about what is happening in the story.  Listen for rhyming words and ask simple questions about the story.  For example, what is the character feeling? How do you know?  Where does the story take place?  What do you think will happen next? Why?
     

    Reader’s Workshop

    Unit 2 Shared Reading 

    Bend I: Ready to Read

    Bend I, Session 1: Readers study words everywhere

    Bend I, Session 2: Reading With One to One Matching 

    Bend I, Session 3: Take a Sneak Peek Before You Read

    Bend I, Session 4: Use Patterns to Help you Read

    Bend I, Session 5: Use Snap Words to Figure Out the Pattern

    Bend I, Session 6: Noticing Letters and Using Sounds to Check 

    Bend I, Session 7: Readers Use Pointing, Patterns, Snap Words, and Letters

    Bend II: Better Together 

    Bend II, Session 1: Partners Make a Plan For Reading Together

    Bend II, Session 2: Partners Help Each Other Monitor Reading

    Bend II, Session 3: Partners Coach in Other Helpful Ways

    Bend II, Session 4: Partners Use Snap Words As They Read

    Bend II, Session 5: Partners Talk About Books

    Bend II, Session 6: Partners Share Goals

     

    Bend III Giving the Gift of Reading

    Bend III, Session 1: Giving the Gift of Reading

    Bend III, Session 2: Readers Share Their Thinking

    Bend III Session 3: Adding to Pattern Books to Represent Yourself and Your Community

    Bend III, Session 4; Sharing What You Notice About Letters and Words\

    Bend III, Session 5: Making Book Gifts

    Bend III, Session 6: Preparing for a Community Celebration 

     

    End-of-Unit Celebration

    Writer's Workshop -

    Show and Tell: From Labels to Pattern Books

    Bend I: Writing Is a Way to Show and Tell 

    • Drawing and writing a lot on each page

    • Writers Plan What They'll draw and write

    • Returning to a page to add more

    • Writers use everything they know to spell words and don't wait to be perfect.

    • Writing partners can help each other celebrate and add more

    • Bend II: Writing Show and Tell Books   

    • Writers write Show-and-Tell Books about important places

    • Writers make time for drawing and writing

    • Writers and illustrators make decisions

    • Adding longer labels to bring pages to life

    • Writing sentences that say what pictures and labels can't

    • Growing writers talk about their writing in important ways.

    • Bend III: Using Patterns to Write Show-and -Tell Books

    • Writing books that kids want to read

    • Talking and writing with patterns and snap words

    • Studying how sentences look

    • Slowing down to leave spaces between words

    • Writers write more sentences on a page

    • Writers think about how their books will end.

    • Fancying up your writing

    • Bookstore Celebration carrying on independently as writers

    • Writers call to mind what they want to say.

    Math Workshop