December 21, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week the class learned the letter
combination of oo. 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, z, w, v, y, and z. 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 such as 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.
Popcorn Words: This week we added three words to our popcorn bag: no, go, so.
Reading: This week was Gingerbread Week. We read many books about our new
friend the Gingerbread Man who mysteriously ran away from our classroom. We read the books The Gingerbread Man, The
Gingerbread Baby, The Gingerbread Girl, and The Gingerbread Man is Loose in the
School to try and get clues of where our new friend went. The Gingerbread Man also left us clues to
where he might be. We even made
Gingerbread friends in hopes that he returns.
Along with reading those books and gingerbread activities we did many
other fun holiday activities. We also
read a story about the Gingerbread Man’s friend Rudolph the Red Nosed
Reindeer. The students were able to create
their own Rudolph bag and we put Reindeer food inside to prepare for the upcoming
holidays.
You would never guess it but our new friend the
Gingerbread Man did return on Friday morning just in time for our Holiday
Party.
REMEMBER:
I want to wish all the students and their
families a very
safe and Happy Holiday Season!
Winter Break- No School December 24th 2012-
January 6th 2013.
January 7th 2013 is our first day back from
Winter Break
