What A Great Year!

 

Focus on Curriculum                      June 6, 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 the short vowel word families.

Reading:  This week we read King of The Zoo.  We also read many other fun children’s books.  We also added a new poem called Field Trip to our poetry binders, which will be coming home next week.

Writing: We continued writing in our new writing journals. In our journals we focus on using a capital letter to start sentences, proper punctuation, spacing between our words, 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 reviewed all of our popcorn words. We now have ninety five 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, here, 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, they, say, play, away, eat, please, want, with, came, ate, make, ride, was, are, saw, well, pretty, funny, under, find, blue, yellow, red, pink, black, orange, white, brown . 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 working on a combination of addition problems and subtraction problems at the same time.  We worked on addition and subtraction up to and from 18.  We also played golf addition and subtraction games.  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.

Social Studies:  Our weekly reader was about summer safety.

Thank you to all the parents who helped out with our field trip to the zoo.  The children had a great time.

Thank you to all the parents who helped out in our class throughout the year.  I was so happy to work with such a great group of students all year.  I hope everyone and his or her family has a very safe and happy summer!

Thank you to all for the great year!

Remember:

Monday June 9^th and Tuesday June 10^th.  Fun activities will be planned for the children.  Please wear comfortable shoes and dress according to the weather because we will be outside weather permitting.

Last Day of School is Thursday June 12^th at 12:00 noon.

Please practice the popcorn words with your child over the summer.

 Read to your child every night!

 

Please check the green folder daily.