The theme in this unit is My Neighborhood. In this unit, we will be answering the question: What is a neighborhood? The children will read realistic fiction that discusses neighbors and neighborhoods. Each week we will address specific questions such as What is a neighborhood? What and who can I see in a neighborhood? We will use elements and clues in the texts to make connections. We will also read infographics, informational texts, and procedural texts.
Highlights from Unit 1 Week 6: What is a neighborhood?
Reading:
First-grade readers have read all about neighborhoods for the first five weeks of school. To wrap up Unit 1, students picked a neighborhood worker and did a research project to explore what their job is and how that worker helps their neighborhood. Children worked together and used resources such as books and videos to help with their research. Children chose to write an informational book or create a poster about their workers and then presented it to the class. Children chose whether they wanted to present to the whole class or in small groups. This was a fun and hands-on project that the children really enjoyed!
This group is researching Police Officers.
- Weekly Question: What is a neighborhood?
- Weekly Vocabulary: group, settle, type, various
Foundational Skills
- children learned how to segment and blend the sounds words with the sound /kw/ Qu.
- reading and writing words with Qu /kw/ at the beginning.
- decode words with initial and final consonants Rr, Ww, Jj, and Kk.
- Review decoding words with initial and final consonants: Vv, Ww, Yy, Zz.
- Heart Words - words we need to know by heart.
go, me, for, here, where
Hilary Jackson
