Thursday, January 14, 2016

BRRR! IT'S COLD!




Focus on Curriculum     

January 15, 2016

Jolly Phonics:  This week the class learned the letter combination of ng and th.  For ng we pretend that we are strong.  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, oo, ch, sh, th, and ng.  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 we read the book Love You Forever.   We also listened to an audio version of the book without pictures, and listened to the story read to us on the computer.  We took a big piece of construction paper and folded it in half.  On one side we drew a picture of what we saw when the audio version of the book was read to us and on the other half we drew a picture after we saw the pictures from the story. 
Popcorn Words:  This week we cut out the popcorn words he, she, and be and put our words in our popcorn word ring.  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. Please practice the popcorn words with your child at home.
Math: We continued counting to 100 by ones and tens.  We continued our shape unit. Our center activities have a winter theme.
Writing:  We wrote the sentence: He is a strong man!  The children noticed that three of the words are our popcorn words and the other two words “the children” were able to read using their decoding skills.  After they wrote their sentence, they had a chance to color the strong man on the page.  Using the word strong was a good review of the ng jolly phonics lessons from this week.
Social Studies: We read our Weekly Reader that focused on Martin L. King Jr. and his fight that all people would live in peace.  We did a writing activity that focused on Martin L. King Jr.

Art:  We completed a Love You Forever Project.

Remember:


No School-Monday January 18th Martin Luther King Day


Do Not Forget To Order From Scholastic Books! 


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!