December 14, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week the class learned the sounds of
the letters y and x. For the letter y
we pretend that we are eating yogurt and for the letter z we pretend to put on
our x-ray glasses. 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, 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.
Reading: We started
our Let’s Count theme. We read Benny's Pennies in which a boy has five pennies and buys gifts for his mother,
brother, sister, dog and cat. We talked
about how the pennies in the book look different from the pennies we use. We also talked about that Abraham Lincoln is
on the penny and that 100 pennies equals one dollar. We read Feast for 10.
We talked about the upcoming holidays and what we eat while we celebrate
the upcoming holidays with our families.
Math: We continued
working on writing and tracing our numbers.
The children like to sing the Dr. Jean number song. We learned about addition and that addition
is putting numbers together. We learned
that the sign we use when adding is called the plus sign.
Popcorn Words: This week we added three words to our popcorn bag: little, and, yes.
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.
Next week we will be doing gingerbread activities. Some will include reading gingerbread
stories and searching for a gingerbread man who ran away inside our school.
REMEMBER:
Next Friday December 21st we will have a winter
break party for both the morning and afternoon classes.
Please do not send treats to school. The party planners will provide sufficient
snacks and entertainment for our party.
WEAR YOUR GYM SHOES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
BRING YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS ON WEDNESDAY
