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= First Grade Weekly Planning =

For the Week of: March 9 - 13, 2009
**Mathematics** Goals/Objectives: 5.02, 4.01, 4.02 (Vocabulary/Language || Line plots, tallies, venn diagrams & probability Start performance assessments || (Games, songs, activities)
 * Topic:
 * Math Strategies:

|| Venn Diagram (Hula Hoop Sort) use hula hoops and the children's shoes to compare and give visuals of examples. Vocabulary - sorting, compare, contrast, same, different, both, sets Different size and color and patterned shapes to compare Hat activity - Create class Venn Diagram using different pictures of hats - children do all writing Line plots: numbers of poockets on clothes number of buttons on clothes Problem solving strategies: colored cube word puzzles/problems || || Shoes (white resource book, pg 66-69) pattern bears, shapes, pictures Venn Diagram pocket chart || Goals/Objectives: 2.01 - 2.03 || Poems: I'm a Little Leprechaun and Leprechaun, Leprechaun, where's your gold? The Scrubbing Machine by Joy Cowley || Non-fiction books about spring Books by David Shannon and Dorreen Cronin ||
 * Materials and Manipulatives
 * Morning Work/Workstations || Spiral review ||
 * Reading**
 * Theme: ||  ||
 * Shared Reading
 * Readers Statements || Readers read at a just right pace and look at punctuation. ||
 * Interactive Read Alouds || St. Patrick's Day Read Alouds

Goals/Objectives: 4.06
 * Writing **
 * Mini Lessons

|| Poetry unit or beginning Imaginative narrative unit- mainly studying imaginative marrative books and discovering what we notice about these types of stories-then listing possible story ideas. || Double bubble map comparing winter and spring ||
 * Interactive Writing Suggestions || Make a thank you card for Ms. Dixon ||
 * Graphic Sources || St. Patrick's Day Chart - Describing the history of St. Patrick's Day

Theme/Focus || 4.04 Balance as a function of position & weight || 3.04 How community members are affected by change ||
 * || ** Science ** || ** Social Studies ** ||
 * Goals/Objectives:
 * Weekly Readers

|| All about maps || Communities Around the World - Social Studies Harcourt Workbook ||
 * Videos/Technology ||  ||   ||
 * Research based strategies: Buddy study, guided reading, manipulatives, AR and conferring.**