Happy St.
Patrick’s Day!
Focus on Curriculum
March 14, 2014
Jolly Phonics: We have completed all our jolly phonics
sounds. 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, er, ar, z, w, v, y, and z.
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 have learned this year.
It is for your reference so you can practice with your children each letter and
the sound of that letter.
Word Family’s: This week we worked on the short i word
families. We worked on the ip and
ing word families. We start with
one of the word family endings: ip or ing, and then we add
different letters to the beginning of the endings to make new words. For example, for the ip word family we
formed the words (rip, tip, drip, etc.)
We even talked about the ig family.
Reading: This week we read A
Day With A Doctor and A Day With A Mail Carrier! We learned about what a doctor and mail
carrier does for a living. We learned
the new vocabulary words prevent, healthy, load and important. We also read the Dr. Seuss book A Wocket
In My Pocket and created our very own Dr. Seuss character.
Writing: We wrote about Thing
1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Seuss. In our
writing we were able to use many of our new popcorn words suck as look, and,
out, here, and come.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words soon, went, and come
and glued them in our spirals. We now have sixty 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, so, the you, down, he, she, be, her, our, out,
get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four,
nine, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come. 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. The words are getting difficult.
Math: We continued working
on subtraction, subtracting from numbers up to ten and continued to practice
addition facts that add up to ten.
Please practice reading and writing numbers 1 through 20. Please continue to practice addition facts
that add up to ten along with subtracting numbers up to ten. We also had our second minute timed test on
addition facts up to five by adding one to each number.
Social Studies: We read our Weekly
Reader, which was about St. Patrick’s Day!
Art: The students
really enjoyed making their own leprechaun to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! They will be in your child’s backpack today!
Remember:
No School-Monday March 17th and March 18th
Read to your child every night!
Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.
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.
