Friday, December 14, 2018

Gingerbread Week!





Focus on Curriculum     

December 14, 2018

Jolly Phonics:  This week I introduced the letter combinations oa and ie. Next week I will introduce the letter combinations ee and or.  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 Corduroy’s Christmas Surprise, A Christmas Wish for Corduroy, Toy Story Christmas Toys, and Mooseltoe.  We added the poem Little Ole Elf to our poetry binders.
Next week will be Gingerbread Week  We will read many books about our new friend the Gingerbread Man who mysteriously ran away and is hiding somewhere in our school. (Sh! Please don’t tell the kids!) J  We will read the books The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Pirates, The Gingerbread Cowboy, The Gingerbread Baby, The Gingerbread Girl, and The Gingerbread Man is Loose in the School, The Gingerbread Man is Loose at Christmas Time, and The Gingerbread Man is Loose on the Fire Truck to try and find clues of where our new friend went.  The Gingerbread Man will leave us clues to where he might be.  We will make Gingerbread friends in hopes that he returns.  Along with reading those books and gingerbread activities we will complete many other fun holiday activities.  We will also read stories about the Gingerbread Man’s friends, Pete the Cat, Olive The Other Reindeer, and Clifford’s Christmas.  The students will create their own Rudolph bag and put Reindeer food inside to prepare for the upcoming holidays.

Sight Words:  This week we learned the sight words jump and up and next week we will learn the words, on, help, and yes. We are going to keep our word rings in the front sleeve of our green folder so we can practice our words at school and at home.
Math: We continued working on addition and the concept of a part, plus-a-part, equals a whole.  We continued counting to 100 by ones and tens.  We did holiday math activities all week. Our center activities have a holiday theme.
Art:  Our projects included a Grinch, Gingerbread Man, a gift for you the parents, which will be coming home early this upcoming week, and made reindeer food.
We hope our Gingerbread man will return for our Holiday Party.

I want to wish everyone a very safe and happy holiday season and best wishes for the New Year!


Remember:



Winter Break is December 22, 2018- January 6, 2019.  School resumes Monday January 7, 2019.


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 

 Thursdays

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!