Focus on Curriculum
March 28, 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 reviewed our short e word
families en and ed.
Reading: This week we read Tools. Tools is a story about all the
different tools people use around the world to help us complete jobs. Our new vocabulary words that go with the
story were; useful, similar, repair and communicate. We also read Rain, Rain Go Away! And Pete The Cat At
The Beach!
Writing: We started writing
in our new writing journals. In our
journals we focus on using a capital letter to start sentences, proper
punctuation and spacing and the neatness of our writing. We also reread our writing to make sure it
makes sense. On each page of our
writing journals we have a check list to double check our writing.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words who, what, and where
and glued them in our spirals. We now have sixty seven 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, do, all, there, who, what,
where. 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 measurement and data. We talked
about shorter, longer, length and height.
Please continue practicing 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 took our addition quiz with
facts up to five by adding 2 to each number.
Remember:
Spring Break March 31st
through April 6th. Classes
resume April 7th.
Our Spring Class Art
Projects are Due Monday April 14th.
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.
