Focus on Curriculum
December 11, 2015
Jolly Phonics: This week I
introduced the letters y and x. For the
letter y we pretend we are eating yogurt and for the letter x we pretend we are
looking through an x-ray camera. 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 and x. 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: We read the book Arthur’s
Perfect Christmas. We learned the
meanings of the definitions of family tree, related, and cousin. We also read The Littlest Elf, Mooseltoe, and
Howard B. Wigglebottom and the Power of Giving. We added the poem Five
Yummy Gingerbread to our poetry binders.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words yes and no and put
our words in our popcorn word bag. We
are going to keep our popcorn word bags in the front sleeve of our green folder
so we can practice our words at school and at home.
Math: We continued counting to 100 by ones and tens. We did holiday math. Our center activities
have a holiday theme.
Art: We made a present
for our parents. I will be wrapping the
presents for the parents this weekend and they will be coming home with your
child next week. The children were very
excited to make the gift for you and are eager to give them to you. We also made a Grinch project!
Social Studies: Our Weekly Reader focused on Holiday
workers. We are having Junior
Achievement day on this upcoming Tuesday!
Next week we will be doing gingerbread activities. Some of the activities we will be doing
include reading gingerbread stories and searching for a gingerbread man who ran
away inside our school.
Remember:
Tuesday December
15th is a half-day.
Friday
December 18th is our Holiday Party. Please do not send treats to school.
The party planners will provide sufficient snacks and entertainment for
our party.
Winter Break
is December 19, 2015- January 3, 2015. School resumes Monday January 4, 2015
We have snack every
morning. Please remember to send a
healthy snack with your child each day, such as a fruit or vegetable.
Also, please
remember our room is a peanut/nut free room due to allergies.
Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays
We have gym everyday.
Please remember your gym shoes.
Please check the green folder daily and turn in Box Tops
to earn money for our school!
