November 30, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week I explained the letter
combinations of ee, and or. We also
learned the letter Z and move are arms as if we were a bee buzzing around. Now we know the sounds of the
letters and letter combinations: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d,
g, o, u, l, f, b, j, oa, oa, ie, ee, or, and z. Please try and practice with
your letter cards at home. Please ask your
child to say the letter names and sounds. All students have a bag of cards with
letters, pictures, and words. They should try to match the letters, pictures,
and words. You may choose to make it a game like Memory, Rummy or Go Fish.
Use your imagination! Keep the cards in
a special place at home so they can use them again and again. The cards can stay at home.
Reading: We
continued our theme friends together.
We learned about cause and effect and predicting and making
inferences. We read The Lion and the Mouse and My Dad and I. In The Lion and the Mouse the students first made
predictions about what the story was going to be about based on the
pictures. After the story the students
concluded it was a make believe story because animals do not talk like humans,
but the students did learn a real life lesson that friends help friends out in
time of need. In My Dad and I
the father and son in the story are best friends and it tells about all the
things they do together. We talked
about our own Dad’s, Mom’s, sisters and brothers being our best friends and the
things we do with them. During the week
we also talked about verbs and that verbs are words used to describe actions.
Math: We continued
working on writing and tracing our numbers.
We are also working on matching like quantities and are able to tell, if
given a number one through ten, which is bigger.
Popcorn Words: This week we added three words to our popcorn bag: to, too, and do.
Writing: We used the words to and too in a sentence
describing something that each student likes to do. After each student wrote what they like to do they each found a
friend in the room that likes the same thing and had that friend sign their
name and write what they like to do too.
ART: The student’s festive pines look great on
display in our hallways. I am so proud
of all the students and all the hard work they have put into decorating their
projects.
REMEMBER:
WEAR YOUR GYM SHOES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
BRING YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS ON WEDNESDAY
