January 18, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week the class learned the letter
combination of ng and th. For ng we
pretend that we are strong. 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,oo, ch, sh, ng, th, z, w, v, y, 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 such as 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.
Popcorn Words: This
week we added three words to our popcorn bag: he, she, and be.
Reading: This week we
continued our Let’s Count Theme. We read
the stories Peace and Quiet and All You Need For a Snowman. In Peace and Quiet an old lady and
man can not get any sleep because of branches from a tree brushing up against
the house and a creaky floor, so the old lady and man visit the wise man in the
village. The wise man tells them to put
all types of animals, such as a goat, dog, cat and horse, in their house. All the animals make so much noise that the
old couple determine that a little noise from a branch on a tree and a creaky
floor are not that bad as compared to all the other noises that could be inside
a house. All You Need For a Snowman
tells a story of all the components needed for children to make a snowman.
Writing: We wrote in our
journals. The sentence: He is a strong
man! The children noticed that three
words are popcorn words and the other two words the children were able to read
using their decoding skills.. After they
wrote their sentence, they had a chance to color the strong man on the page and
draw a picture of themselves being a strong boy or a strong girl. Using the word strong was a good review of
the ng jolly phonics lessons from this week.
Math: We continued working
with addition and subtraction. The
children know that addition is putting together and subtraction is taking
apart. We also worked some more on
writing numbers one through ten. Please
practice writing numbers at home with your child.
Social Studies: We
talked about the President of the United States. The children know that the President is
President Obama. He lives and works in the White House and that he is
responsible for the laws of our country and that he is the commander and chief
of our armed forces. We also talked
about how the President can serve two terms and that President Obama’s
inauguration is this upcoming Monday January 21, 2013.
Art: After reading All You Need For a Snowman the children
had an opportunity to build their own snowman.
The children cut out one snowball for every letter of their name and
then one additional one for the snowman’s head.
On each snowball the children wrote one letter of their name and when
the snowman is complete and you stand it up the snowman spells out the names of
each child. The children were able to
add arms and a hat. The projects will be
on display on the walls by the kindergarten classrooms.
REMEMBER:
No School Monday January 21, 2013- Martin Luther King Day!
The Six Flags Read to Succeed log is Due by February 22nd,
2013
Bring your library books on Wednesdays!
Wear your gym shoes Thursdays and Fridays!
Pajama Day- Friday January 25, 2013
Wednesday January 30, 2013 is a half-day. Only the morning class will attend school.
