Focus
on Curriculum
November 15, 2013
Handwriting Without Tears: We wrote in our handwriting book
Jolly Phonics: This week I introduced
the letters oa and ie (vowel combination) together. For oa we say “oh” and ie we pretend we are saluting saying, “aye
aye captain”. We learned when two
vowels go walking the first vowel does the talking; saying its name, and the
second vowel is quite. Now we know the sounds of the
letters: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai,
oa, and ie. 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 read the stories Noisy
Nora, Ten Fat Turkeys, and It’s Thanksgiving! We also read our very own small book I
am Helping that focused on two of our popcorn words.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words am, did and not and
glued them in our spirals. We now have
seventeen words and they are: I, a, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, at, we, me, am, did, and
not.
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. Please practice the popcorn words
with your child at home.
Math: We continued our counting and numbers units. We practiced counting to 50. We did many counting activities that had a
fall theme. We also practiced counting using ten-frames in our Turkey Teens book.
Writing:
We wrote the
sentence, A goat ate my pumpkin pie!
It reinforced the oa and ie sounds and also reinforced that a sentence
begins with a capital and ends with a punctuation mark. In this case it was an exclamation mark
showing their excitement. We then had a
chance to color our picture and share it with our classmates on the elmo
projector in our classroom.
Social Studies: We talked about Veterans Day this
past Monday and how it is in honor of those who have served our country. We also completed our own Veteran’s Day
book. Lastly, we read and discussed our
Weekly Reader that talked about turkeys and our upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
Remember:
Half day Wednesday November 20th. School is dismissed at 12 noon. If you are picking up your child, pickup
will be in the office at 12:10 P.M.
Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.
Six Flags Great America reading program information went home this week!
Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesday * New Library Days
We have gym everyday.
Please remember your gym shoes.
Please check the green folder daily.
Turn in Box Tops to earn money for our school! - The class
with the most box tops wins a pizza party at the end of the year.
