Thursday, May 25, 2017

Summer Fun!









Focus on Curriculum                 May 26, 2017  

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 our short u family ug.  We thought of words, as a class, which ends in ug. The students came up with (rug, tug, mug etc.)

Reading:  This week we read What Would You Do with a Tail like This?  We learned the new vocabulary terms: pesky, warn, squirted, scoop, leap, and capture.   We also read King of The Zoo and many other fun children’s books.   Our poetry binders will be coming home this week.
Writing: We wrote in our memory books which will be coming home next week. 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.
 Sight Words:   This week reviewed all of our sight 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 .
Math:  We played many fun math games reviewing all the concepts we learned this year.  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.

Congratulations to all my kindergarten students for doing such a great job at the concert tonight.  I am very proud of you.

We will welcome children’s songwriter Jim Gill to school on Tuesday who will put on a private concert for the kindergarten class.

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:
Thursday June 1st.  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 Friday June 2rd-Half Day!



Read to your child every night!