January 11, 2012
Focus on Curriculum
Jolly Phonics: This week the class learned the letter
combination of ch and sh. 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, ch, sh 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: the, you, and down.
Reading: This week we continued
our Let’s Count Theme. We read the
stories Counting Noodles and Ten Little Puppies. In Counting
Noodles the Noodles family goes for a picnic and spends some time on the
water in a boat. When they get back to
shore Papa Noodle counts the members of his family to make sure everyone
returned to shore safely, but Papa Noodle forgets to count himself and the
family thinks they have lost a family member and can’t figure out who it
was. A hiker then comes by and offers
help and Papa Noodle includes the hiker in the count and now the Noodles can’t
figure out how they have one to many members in their family. The children in the class did a great job of
figuring out what exactly the Noodles did wrong in the story. We also read Ten Little Puppies in which a boy starts out with ten puppies, but
as the story goes along he loses a puppy one by one because each puppy does his
or her own activity. For example, one
puppy went out to dinner, another puppy went for a haircut and another puppy
joined the circus to do tricks. At the
end of the story we read about the illustrator of the book and the children
learned that an illustrator is the person who draws the pictures for a story. The
children also learned that the author of a story and an illustrator can be two
different people.
Writing: We wrote in our journals. We wrote the sentence: You and me! The children noticed that the three words
are all our popcorn words. After they
wrote their sentence, they became illustrators and had a chance to draw a
picture of themselves and someone else.
We also wrote about up and down since down is a popcorn word this
week. The children also had a chance to
illustrate something that stays down on the ground and something that is up in
the air.
Math: We continued working with addition and
subtraction. The children know that
addition is putting together and subtraction is taking apart. We read the story Ten Red Apples and in the story a farmer starts out with ten apples
on his tree and then day-by-day someone or some animal comes and takes one
apple away leaving the farmer with less and less each day.
All of the students worked very hard on this first week
back from break and all parents should be very proud of their children. Great
Job Class!!!!
REMEMBER:
The Six Flags Read to Succeed log is Due by February 22nd,
2013
If you still have a report card envelope at home please
return it to school on Monday.
Bring your library books on Wednesdays!
Wear your gym shoes Thursdays and Fridays!
No School Monday January 21, 2013- Martin Luther King Day!
Pajama Day- Friday January 25, 2013