November 9, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week I introduced that the letters ai
together make the long vowel a sound.
We put our hand by our ear and say ai.
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, and j. We
also know that when two vowels go walking together the first one does the
talking and the second one stays quiet.
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: This week we added more popcorn words to our list. The new
words are we and me. We now have
fourteen words and they are: I, a, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, at,
we and me. Please practice the
popcorn words with your child at home. We
then talked about and wrote how we are kind students who care about each
other. We also had a mixed up
Thanksgiving sentence about a turkey chasing us. We had a chance to unscramble the sentence and when in was
complete it read A turkey is chasing me!
We reinforced that a sentence begins with a capital and ends with a
punctuation mark. In this case it was
an exclamation mark. We then had a
chance to color our picture and share it with our classmates on the elmo
projector in our classroom.
Math: We continued our numbers unit working with numbers one through
five. It is easier to trace numbers
than write them on our own. The
students need practice writing numbers on their own. We also were introduced to the Starfall math program, in which we
can play fun math games that help us learn our numbers.
Social Studies:
We talked about the Presidential election and who was elected the
President of the United States. We also
talked about Veterans Day this upcoming Monday and how it is in honor of those
who have served our country.
REMEMBER:
No School Monday November 12th- Veterans Day
Scholastic Book orders are due November 23, 2012
WEAR YOUR GYM SHOES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
BRING YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS ON WEDNESDAY
