Focus
on Curriculum
October 18, 2013
Handwriting Without Tears: We wrote the letters u and v in our
handwriting book.
Jolly Phonics:
This week we learned the letters o and u. For the letter o we pretend we are turning a light switch on and
off. To make the sound of the letter u
we pretend that we are opening an umbrella. We know the sounds of the
letters: s, a, t, p, n, c, k, I e, h, r, m, d,g, o, and u. We like to sing songs and do actions for
each sound to help us remember them.
Remember to review the sounds we have learned in the letter and sound
packet, which shows all the motions and sounds used to make each letter of the
alphabet that we will learn this year.
It is for your reference so you can practice with your children as we
learn each new letter and the sound of that letter.
Reading: We started unit
two. This week we concentrated on a
story titled When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry. We talked about when we ourselves get
angry and what good choices we can make during stressful times. We also read some fall books. We read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf and Apples
and Pumpkins. The children read,
colored and wrote in their very own leaf books. Since this past Monday was Columbus Day we read In 1492
which talked about Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words like and my and
glued it in our spirals. We did a fall
tree project where we unscrambled a sentence that reads, “I like my fall
tree.” We also completed a giant candy
corn project that reads, “ I like my candy.” Our spirals are going home today. We are going to keep our spirals in the front sleeve of our green
folder so we can practice our words at school and at home. Please remind your child to bring their
popcorn word spirals to school everyday.
Math: We continued our counting and numbers units. We practiced counting to 50. We completed our pumpkin patch activity
where the students had to put the pumpkins numbered 1-10 in the correct
numerical order on the vine. We also did another pumpkin activity in which the
children had to correctly number the pumpkins 0-20. We practiced reading ten-frames up to 20 and did a Monster math
activity, where at the end of the lesson each child was given a Monster with a
random number printed on the monster.
The children then colored their monster and glued the correct number of
googly eyes on their monster
Social Studies: Our
Weekly Readers focused on pumpkins.
Remember:
Thursday October 24, 2013 is a half-day. School is dismissed at 12 noon. If you are picking up your child pick-ups are at 12:10 P.M. in the office.
Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.
Bring Library Books on Mondays and Tuesdays
We have gym everyday.
Please remember your gym shoes.
Please check the green folder daily.
