Focus
on Curriculum
December 20, 2013
Jolly Phonics: This week I
introduced the letter combination oo. Now
we know the sounds of the letters: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g,
o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v, y, x, and oo. We like to sing songs and do actions for
each sound to help us remember them.
Remember to review the sounds we have learned in the letter and sound
packet, which shows all the motions and sounds used to make each letter of the
alphabet that we will learn this year.
It is for your reference so you can practice with your children as we
learn each new letter and the sound of that letter.
Reading: This week was Gingerbread Week. We
read many books about our new friend the Gingerbread Man, who mysteriously ran
away from our classroom. We read the
books The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Pirates, The Gingerbread
Cowboy, The Gingerbread Baby, The Gingerbread Girl, and The Gingerbread Man is
Loose in the School to try and get clues of where our new friend
went. The Gingerbread Man also left us
clues to where he might be. We even
made Gingerbread friends in hopes that he returns. Along with reading those books and gingerbread activities we did
many other fun holiday activities. We
read stories about the Gingerbread Man’s friends, Pete the Cat, Mooseltoe, and
The Littlest Elf. The students
created their own Rudolph bag and we put Reindeer food inside to prepare for
the upcoming holidays.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words go, no and so and
glued them in our spirals. We now have thirty one words and they are: I, a, it, in, see, big, my,
like, up, run, on, at, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too, ran, into,
for, little, and, yes, go, no, and so. Our spirals are going home
today. We are going to keep our spirals
in the front sleeve of our green folder so we can practice our words at school
and at home. Please remind your child
to bring their popcorn word spirals to school everyday. Please practice the popcorn words with your child at home.
Math: We continued our counting and numbers units. We continued counting to 100 and counting by
tens to 100. We did math activities that included our gingerbread man.
Writing:
We wrote about our
star of the week.
You would never guess it but our new friend the
Gingerbread Man did return on Friday morning just in time for our Holiday
Party.
I want to wish everyone a very safe and happy holiday season and
best wishes for the New Year!
Remember:
Winter Break
is December 23, 2013- January 5, 2014.
School resumes Monday January 6, 2014
Read to your child every night!
Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.
Remember to read for Six Flags Great America reading program!
Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesday * New Library Days
We have gym everyday.
Please remember your gym shoes.
Please check the green folder daily.
Turn in Box Tops to earn money for our school! - The class
with the most box tops wins a pizza party at the end of the year.
