February 1, 2013
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week the class learned the letter
combination of ue and oi,. For oi we
say ship ahoy. We also learned that oy
makes the same sound as oi. 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, ou, qu, ue, oi, 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: get, help, and now. Please practice the popcorn words we are getting quite a few and they are getting more difficult.
Reading: This week we
continued our Sunshine and Raindrops theme.
This week we worked on talking about the plot of a story and summarizing
a story. We read The Wind and the
Sun. The children first determined
the story was make believe because the wind and sun talk to each other and that
cannot really happen. In the story the
wind and the sun compete against each other by trying to make a man take off
his heavy cloak. The children were able
to determine the sun would win because the sun is warm and when the wind blows
it is cold causing us to put on a jacket.
We discussed if the roles were reversed and the contest was to make a
man put on a jacket the wind would win.
We also read All to Build a Snowman. In this story a crow gets startled by falling snow and breaks a
few branches from a tree. The branches
fall and hit a squirrel. The squirrel
drops some acorns on a cat. The cat
starts to run and a dog chases the cat.
The dog pulls its owner while chasing the cat and the owner loses his
hat and scarf. A snowman is put
together using all the pieces that fell to the ground during the crazy sequence
of events. Lastly we read Sadie and
the Snowman and were able to put together our own snowman sequence of
events.
Writing: We wrote in our
journals what type of weather is our favorite.
We first brainstormed and wrote down all the different types of weather,
such as sunny, snowy, rainy, windy, cloudy and foggy. We then wrote in our journals” I like ____________ days!” After we wrote, we had a chance to illustrate
a picture of ourselves in our favorite weather.
Math: We continued reading
and writing numbers 11 through 20.
Please practice reading and writing these harder numbers at home. We also started on our counting from 50 –75.
REMEMBER:
Please return report card envelopes.
Valentine Party Information- On the valentine cards
please have your child only sign their name and not who they are too. Please do not bring any candy or treats with
the valentine cards.
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!
