October 19, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week I explained the letter u and we
made the motion of opening an umbrella.
For the letter l the children pretend they are licking a lollipop. Now we know the sounds of the letters:
s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g, o, u and l. Please try and practice with your letter
cards at home. Please ask your
child to say the letter names and sounds. All students have a bag of cards with
letters, pictures, and words. They should try to match the letters, pictures,
and words. You may choose to make it a game like Memory, Rummy or Go Fish.
Use your imagination! Keep the cards in
a special place at home so they can use them again and again. The cards can stay at home.
Reading: We started theme three: We are family. We read the books Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Shoes
From Grandpa. This week we worked on predicting and making
inferences. In the story Shoes From
Grandpa, a grandfather buys shoes for his granddaughter because of the
upcoming winter and then all of the girls’ family members bought her clothing
for the season. We then talked about
what clothing we need in the wintertime such as, jeans, boots, scarf’s,
mittens, and sweaters. We then talked
about all the clothing we would wear during the summer season.
Math: We continued
working on correctly naming shapes regardless of their overall size or
orientation. We also used simple shapes
to form larger shapes.
Popcorn Words: This week we added two words to our popcorn bag: up and run.
Writing: We had a sentence that was “all mixed
up”. We first had to cut out the words
that were “all mixed up” (out of order).
We then talked about how all sentences begin with a capital letter and
end with a punctuation mark, so we then knew what word was the first and last
word of our sentence. We then arranged the words to make a complete sentence
that made sense and glued the words down in order. Finally, after we were done gluing our words, we drew a
picture to illustrate our sentence.
ART: The
students finished their tree project that will be displayed in the
hallway. The children first traced
their hand on brown paper and then cut it out.
For the leaves the students put their fingers in different colored
paints and placed their fingers on the paper to look like leaves.
REMEMBER:
Thursday October 25th is a half-day. There is no AM kindergarten. The PM class comes in the morning and is
dismissed at 12:00 noon. If you are
picking up your child on that day please send me a note ASAP and the pick up
time is 12:10 P.M. in the office.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS ARE DUE OCTOBER 28
WEAR YOUR GYM SHOES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
BRING YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS ON WEDNESDAY
