Focus
on Curriculum
November 7, 2013
Handwriting Without Tears: We reviewed all the magic c capital letters
C, O, Q and G.
Jolly Phonics: This week I
introduced the letters ai (vowel combination) together. We pretend we cannot hear well and say
“Aye.” We learned when two vowels go
walking the first one does the talking, says its name and the second one 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 and
ai. 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 story Pumpkin
Pumpkin and talked about the process that a pumpkin goes through all
the way from seed to pumpkin. We also
read the story Counting Monkeys that the children really liked
because the book was interactive and asked the children for help throughout the
book. We also read our very own small
book We Like School that focused on two of our popcorn words.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words we and me and glued
them in our spirals. We now have twelve words and they
are: I, a, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, at, we and me. 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.
Writing:
We also had a mixed
up Thanksgiving sentence about a turkey chasing us. We had a chance to unscramble the sentence and when in was
complete it read A turkey is chasing me!
We reinforced that a sentence begins with a capital and ends with a
punctuation mark. In this case it was
an exclamation mark. 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 also talked about Veterans Day
this upcoming Monday and how it is in honor of those who have served our
country.
Remember:
No School Friday November 8th- Parent/ Teacher
Conferences
No School Monday November 11th- Veterans Day
Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.
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.
