Happy Mother's Day!

May 10, 2013

                                    Focus on Curriculum

Jolly Phonics: We have completed all our jolly phonics sounds.  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, ng, th, ou, qu, ue, oi, er, ar, 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.

Word Family’s:  This week we reviewed our short o word families.  We will be starting our short u family next week.

Popcorn Words: This week we learned the words pretty, funny, under and find.  Please practice the popcorn words every night, we are getting quite a few and they are getting more difficult. 

Reading:  We started our animal theme this week.  We read the story Run Away in which the animals in the forest think something is after them when all it is nature with the wind blowing and branches moving.  We also read When Dinosaurs Came With Everything.  Since Mother’s Day is this upcoming Sunday we also read Are You My Mother?, which is part of the Dr. Seuss series, Celebrate Mother’s Day, and Eric Carle’s famous Does a Kangaroo Have a Mothers, Too?

 

Writing:  We wrote a poem about Mother’s Day. We started writing in our memory books with the end of the year quickly approaching.  Please check your child’s folder to find the great Mother’s Day gift.

Math:  We focused on fluently adding and subtracting numbers up to five.  We practiced counting to 100 and worked on counting to 100 by tens.  Next week we will continue with our counting, with the focus this quarter of counting to 100.  We will take a two-minute addition quiz this Friday.  The children had two minutes to complete the quiz.  Please look for the quiz in their folders early next week.

Social Studies- Our Weekly Reader this week focused on sea creatures.  We learned about some of the strange and interesting ways that sea creatures sleep, move, eat, and hide.  We also learned how some fish scare away their predators.

Art:  This week we made a butterfly project for Mother’s Day.  The children took great pride in their work and were very excited to give their gifts to their mothers.

Thank you to all for all the very generous gifts this week.  It is very thoughtful of you.  It is my pleasure to work with your children each school day.

Happy Mother’s Day!

REMEMBER:

Half Day-Friday May 17^th:  Only the afternoon class will come to school.  The day will be 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.  The children will then take their regular bus home.  If your are picking up your child that day please send a note and pick-ups will be in the office at 12:10 P.M.

Please remember to check the ABC Countdown Sheet. 

Brookfield Zoo Field Trip- Thursday May 23^rd 2013.  Permission slips went home Friday May 5th.  Please look sign and return if you have not already.

Please practice the popcorn words with your child.

Kindergarten Graduation Day is Tuesday June 4^th 2013. 10:00 A.M. for the morning class and 2:00 P.M. for the afternoon class.  All family members are welcome.

Bring your library books on Wednesdays!

Wear your gym shoes Thursdays and Fridays!