Happy Earth Day!

Focus on Curriculum               April 20, 2018

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, 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 o family op.  We thought of words as a class that end in op. The students came up with (hop, cop, shop, stop, etc.)

Reading:  This week in celebration of Earth Day we read Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green and we read How to Help the Earth by the Lorax.

Writing:  We wrote about how we can help the Earth and go green ourselves.  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 we learned the sight words came, make, ate and ride. We now have seventy nine 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, they, say, play, away, eat, please, want, with, came, ate, make, ride.  We are going to keep our sight words in the front sleeve of our green folder so we can practice our words at school and at home.  Please practice the sight words with your child at home.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We worked on grouping tens and ones and then adding them together to find out how many in all.  Please continue practicing reading and writing numbers 1 through 20.

Social Studies: 

Art:  We made an Earth Day project using watercolors They came out great!

Thank you to all for coming to our Open House!

                                   

Remember:

Read to your child every night!

Do not forget to place your Scholastic book orders.

Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays

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.

Ants!

Ants, Ants, and More Ants!

                    

Focus on Curriculum               April 13, 2018

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, 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 o family ot.  We thought of words as a class that end in ot. The students came up with (hot, not, cot, knot, etc.)

Reading:  This week we read the book Hey Little Ant.   We added the poem Picnic Guests to our poetry binders.

Writing:  We wrote about the story we read Hey Little Ant.  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 we cut out the popcorn words eat, please, want and with and put them in our popcorn word bags. We now have seventy 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, 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, they, say, play, away, eat, please, want, with . We 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We practiced counting on from various starting points.   Please continue practicing reading and writing numbers 1 through 20.   

Social Studies:  Our Weekly Reader focused on growing carrots. We also did a plant project where we put our pictures on the side of a clear plastic cup, and filled the cup with dirt and grass seed.  Hopefully in a few short weeks the seed will sprout and it will look like the students have silly hair!  J

                                   

Remember:

Open House- Thursday April ^19th

Read to your child every night!

Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.

Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays

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.

Spring Gardens!

Focus on Curriculum               April 6, 2018  

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, 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 i family ip.

Reading:  This week we read Flower Garden.  We completed a writing activity writing out the steps and illustrating how to plant a flower garden.  We added the poem Sunflower Song to our poetry binder.

Writing:  We continued writing in our 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.  We wrote about what we did over spring break.

Sight Words:  This week we learned the sight words they, say, play and away.  We now have seventy-one 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, they, say, play, away.  We are going to keep our popcorn 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We continued to group numbers by tens and ones.  Then adding the numbers together to find out how many in all.

Social Studies:  Our Weekly Reader focused on healthy eating.

Art:  We completed a flower project.

                                   

Remember:

Read to your child every night!

Do not forget to place your Scholastic book orders.

Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays

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.