Summer School Lesson Plans

Week 1 - July 20 to July 23

Monday - July 20
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Yellow Pre-primer sight cards (and, the, I, for, in)
Morning Message: I am all in for the summer, and so are you!
(Point out sight words)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Rhyming Say and Do (phonemic awareness folder)
Making Words (pet, met, get, set, wet)
The Kissing Hand
- What do you think the story is about?
- What kind of animal is on the front cover?
- Why do you think the raccoon is holding the other raccoon’s hand?

Tuesday - July 21
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Yellow Pre-primer sight cards (and, the, I, for, in)
Morning Message: I am all in for the summer, and so are you!
(Circle sight words in sentence) (Capitals, finger spaces, and
punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card) Begin ABC Book (in green Engaging Families in Literacy
Development folder)
Rhyming Say and Do (phonemic awareness folder)
The Kissing Hand
- Nuzzled, grinned, scampered
Wednesday - July 22
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Yellow Pre-primer sight cards (and, the, I, for, in)
Morning Message: I am all in for the summer, and so are you!
(Point out sight words) (Capitals, finger spaces, and punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Rhyming Picture Cards: stick-chick, bug-rug, duck-truck, pig-big
(repeat with each rhyming pair) Rhyming Say and Do
(phonemic awareness folder)
Making Words (dog, fog, log, jog, hog)
The Kissing Hand
- Where did Chester raccoon not want to go?
- How do you think he was feeling?

Thursday - July 22
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Yellow Pre-primer sight cards (and, the, I, for, in)
Morning Message: I am all in 4 tha summer, and so are you!
(Correct my morning message!)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card) Writing “I love ______.” (Write in Starfall Journal)
Alliteration Action target /w/ and /n/ (phonemic awareness
folder)
The Kissing Hand video link

Friday - July 23 Meet with…9-9:10, 9:15-9:25, 9:30-9:40, 9:45-9:55

 Week 2 - July 27 to July 30
Monday - July 27
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (blue, to, you, two, do)
Morning Message: Do you want two blue cats to play with?
(Point out sight words)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Segmenting Sound Baseball (phonemic awareness folder)
Making Words (sat, hat, cat, bat, mat)
Commotion in the Ocean
- What animals do you see?
- Why are the animals smiling?/ How many tentacles does an octopus have?
- Where do the animals live?

Tuesday - July 28
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (blue, to, you, two, do)
Morning Message: Do you want two blue cats to play with?
(Ask: How many words are in the MM ??)(Circle sight words in
sentence) (Capitals, finger spaces, and punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card) ABC Book (in green Engaging Families in Literacy
Development folder)
Segmenting Sound Baseball (phonemic awareness folder)
Commotion in the Ocean
- bulging, sneaky, skewer, massive
- How does the crab walk?/Why do the turtles crawl up the beach?/How do
dolphins speak?
Wednesday - July 29
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (blue, to, you, two, do)
Morning Message: Do you want two blue cats to play with?
(Circle sight words) (Capitals, finger spaces, and punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Rhyming Picture Cards: duck-truck, mouse-house, fox-box, dog-
frog (repeat with each rhyming pair) Segmenting Sound
Baseball (phonemic awareness folder)
Making Words (fit, hit, sit, bit, kit)
Commotion in the Ocean
- What do you see when the shark grins?/ Why does the Octopus hold all
the children?/How does the stingray sting?

Thursday - July 30
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (blue, to, you, two, do)
Morning Message: Do you want two bloo cats to play with
(Correct my morning message!)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card) Writing: A note to one of the animals in Commotion in the
Ocean (Write in Starfall Journal)
Sing Skip to My Lou and The Farmer and the Dell (phonemic
awareness folder)
Commotion in the Ocean video link

Friday - July 23 Meet with…9-9:10, 9:15-9:25, 9:30-9:40, 9:45-9:55

 Week 3 - August 3 to August 6
Monday - August 3
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (they, said, eat, all, want)
Morning Message: They said you can eat all you want. (Point
out sight words)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Robot Talk (phonemic awareness folder)
Making Words (hut, nut, but, rut, cut)
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
- When I look at the picture, I see two mice. One looks like a toy mouse.
I wonder if the other is real or a toy?
- How are the two mice different?
- What do you think it would be like to be a mouse like Alexander?

Tuesday - August 4
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (they, said, eat, all, want)
Morning Message: They said you can eat all you want.
(Ask: How many words are in the MM ??)(Circle sight words in sentence)
(Capitals, finger spaces, and punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each card) ABC Book (in
green Engaging Families in Literacy Development folder)
Robot Talk (phonemic awareness folder)
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
- Ordinary, sighed, mysteriously, quivering, heavy
- What would you do if you had a mouse in your house that could talk?/Why
does everyone run and scream when they see Alexander?/Why does
Alexander want to be like Willy?
Wednesday - August 5
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (they, said, eat, all, want)
Morning Message: They said you can eat all you want.
(Circle sight words) (Capitals, finger spaces, and punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Rhyming Picture Cards: stick-chick, bug-rug, duck-truck, pig-big
(repeat with each rhyming pair) Robot Talk (phonemic
awareness folder)
Making Words (bake, cake, take, lake, rake)
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
- What can the lizard in the garden do for Alexander?/ Why does
Alexander change his wish?

Thursday - August 6
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (they, said, eat, all, want)
Morning Message: Theysedyoucaneatallyouwant.
(Correct my morning message!)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card) Writing: “I wish _______”
Sing Mary Had a Little Lamb and Itsy Bitsy Spider (phonemic
awareness folder)
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse video link

Friday - August 7 Meet with…9-9:10, 9:15-9:25, 9:30-9:40, 9:45-9:55

 Week 4 - August 10 to August 13
Monday - August 10
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (ran, brown, red, ride, into)
Morning Message: I ran my red bike into a brown tree. (Point
out sight words)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Rhyming Body Parts (phonemic awareness folder)
Making Words (line, mine, dine, fine, vine)
Stellaluna
- What animal do you see on the cover of the book?
- Why do you think the bat is holding the tree branch?
- When/How do bats sleep?

Tuesday - August 11
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (ran, brown, red, ride, into)
Morning Message: I ran my red bike into a brown tree.
(Ask: How many words are in the MM ??)(Circle sight words in sentence)
(Capitals, finger spaces, and punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each card) ABC
Book (in green Engaging Families in Literacy Development folder)
Rhyming Body Parts (phonemic awareness folder)
Stellaluna
- Ordinary, sighed, mysteriously, quivering, heavy
- How did Stellaluna get separated from her mom?/Where did
Stellaluna land when she could no longer hand onto the branch?
Wednesday - August 12
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (ran, brown, red, ride, into)
Morning Message: I ran my red bike into a brown tree.
(Circle sight words) (Capitals, finger spaces, and punctuation)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each
card)
Rhyming Picture Cards: duck-truck, mouse-house, fox-box, dog-
frog (repeat with each rhyming pair) Rhyming Body Parts
(phonemic awareness folder)
Making Words (bold, cold, sold, told, gold)
Stellaluna
- What did the mother bird feed Stellaluna?/ How did Stellaluna’s mom
find her?

Thursday - August 13
Starfall Journal: Write your first and last name
Sight Cards (ran, brown, red, ride, into)
Morning Message: i ran my red bike into a brown tree.
(Correct my morning message!)
Alphabet Sound Cards: Identify letter, then sound (for each card)
Writing: Make a grocery list of things Stellaluna would buy if she could go
to the grocery store (in Starfall Journali)
Sing Old McDonald and If You’re Happy and You Know It (phonemic
awareness folder)
Stellaluna video link
- Why was Stellaluna’s mom able to see at night?/What are the names of Stellaluna’s
bird friends?/How are bats and birds different? Same?

Friday - none