A Monday morning writing routine where students reflect on their weekend activities through descriptive journaling. Students use open-ended prompts to develop their narrative writing skills and share personal experiences with their peers.
A focused lesson on short 'a' and 'i' CVC words, featuring sound isolation, blending exercises, and a decodable story about two pet shop friends.
A reading comprehension lesson based on the Artemis II moon flyby article, featuring vocabulary building and fact-finding through WH-questions.
A foundational phonics lesson focused on identifying and reading CVC words with the short 'a' vowel sound through visual matching and word recognition.
A creative workshop focused on character development for children's books, using The Rainbow Fish as a mentor text to explore relatability, behavior, and character arcs.
A comprehensive introduction to short 'a' word families (-at, -ap, -an, -am, -ad, -ag) through guided blending, hands-on center rotations, and independent practice.
Week 4 focusing on social vocabulary, feelings, and connecting simple ideas into short stories.
Week 3 focusing on action verbs and describing what people are doing.
Week 2 focusing on describing words (adjectives) and building more descriptive sentences.
Week 1 focusing on school basics, nouns, and simple 'I see' and 'I have' sentence structures.
A final review and assessment where students independently construct, write, and check a complete sentence using all the skills learned.
Students practice organizing words in the correct order to make sense, working with scrambled sentences and visual word banks.
Focuses on sentence boundaries: starting with a capital letter and ending with a period. Students use the traffic light analogy (Green for Go, Red for Stop).
Teaches the importance of finger spaces between words to make writing readable. Students practice placing a "spaceman" or finger between word blocks.