December 7, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week the class learned the sounds of
the letters w and v. For the letter w
we pretend that the wind is blowing and for the letter v we pretend we are
driving a car. 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, z, w,and v. 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.
Reading: We
continued our theme friends together and continued to learn about making
inferences. We read the story Stone Soup and talked about the
characters and setting of the story.
After the story was finished, as a class, we summarized what happened in
the story. We also talked about drawing
conclusions. We talked about how clever
the hungry young man was and how he was able to get the villagers to give him
the ingredients necessary to make his soup.
We also continued talking about action words.
Math: We continued
working on writing and tracing our numbers.
The children like to sing the Dr. Jean number song. We also learned about greater than and less
than. For this concept I explained to
the students that there is an alligator and his mouth always eats the greater
number. We had a chance to complete a
greater than and less than activity in which there were alligator mouths for us
to cut out and glue on our papers to make our number sentences read correctly. I am so proud of the students. They worked very hard learning this new
concept. We then played a greater than and
less than computer game on Starfall.
Popcorn Words: This week we added three words to our popcorn bag: ran, into, for.
Writing:
We wrote about our star student and why
that student is a star. Everyone in the
class will have the chance to be the star of the week.
Watch for news about the upcoming gingerbread activities.
REMEMBER:
WEAR YOUR GYM SHOES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
BRING YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS ON WEDNESDAY
