1. Good Morning First Grade! Today is Monday, September 14, 2009. Content objective: to listen attentively and respond appropriately to oral communications. Language objective: Respond appropriately to most social interactions, including introducing self, asking about another person, and answering questions about personal information, using key words, phrases, and some simple sentences.

2. Today in reading, we will… talk about things that we have seen in a garden. talk about beginning sounds. /o/talk about the /o/ sound. blend sounds together to make words. popcornreview our popcorn words. popcornpractice new popcorn words. oread a story about j o bs. Content objective: to listen attentively and respond appropriately to oral communications. Language objective: Respond appropriately to most social interactions, including introducing self, asking about another person, and answering questions about personal information, using key words, phrases, and some simple sentences.

3. Today in writing, we will… fix a sentence. talk more about what makes a good sentence. learn about sentences that tell about things. Content objective: to select a focus when writing and to use sensory details in writing. Language objective: communicate ideas by drawing, telling, or writing for a purpose.

4. Today in math, we will… talk about finding the missing part. Content objective: use subtraction to find the missing part. Language objective: Comprehend (point, label, name) with the aid of picture cues some simple content-area words (e.g., sphere, cube, perimeter, body parts, mountain). (s) (m) (ss) (1R 1-3: PO7)

5. Today in social studies, we will… talk about where families live. Content objective: identify characteristics of places such as homes. Language objective: Comprehend (point, label, name) with the aid of picture cues many simple content-area grade-level words and a few, more complex words

6. Your homework today will be… to practice your spelling words for the test on Friday. to read for 15 minutes with someone bigger than you. finish your math pages. practice words with the /o/ sound.

7. Our spelling words for this week are… 1.top 2.hop 3.hot 4.not 5.dot 6.lot 7.back 8.pick 9.oh 10.yes Content objective: to use /o/ and other known letters/sounds to write words and to spell and write high frequency words. Language objective: Comprehend that as letters of words change, so do the sounds. (1R 1-2: PO3)

8. Today we will go to… lunch at 10:55. art at 12:55.

9. Today we will go to… lunch at 10:55. P.E. at 12:55.

10. Today we will go to… lunch at 10:55. music at 12:55.

11. Today we will go to… lunch at 10:55. library at 12:55.

12. Let’s have a GREAT DAY!