Focus
on Curriculum
December 13, 2013
Handwriting Without Tears: We wrote in our handwriting book. We started writing our lower case letters c
and o
Jolly Phonics: This week I
introduced the letters y and x. For the
letter y we pretend we are eating yogurt and the letter x we pretend we are
looking through an x-ray camera. 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, ie, ee, or, z, w, v, y and x. 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 Charlie
Needs a Cloak. We also continued
reading some Holiday books such as The Biggest, Best Snowman! We also read are very own small book Foods
I Like. Please ask your child to
read these books to you.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words little, and and yes
and glued them in our spirals. We now have twenty eight words and they are: I, a, it, in, see, big, my,
like, up, run, on, at, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too, ran, into,
for, little, and, yes. 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 continued counting to 100 and counting by
tens to 100. We started working with
the terms, same, more, and fewer. We
will be starting to use the terms greater than and less than. We also did a snowflake sequencing activity
in which we had to put snowflakes in the correct number order from zero through
twenty.
Writing:
We wrote about our
star of the week. We also wrote in our
very own “and” book.
Social Studies: We finished our Junior Achievement
program.
Next week we will be doing gingerbread activities. Some will include reading gingerbread
stories and searching for a gingerbread man who ran away inside our school.
Remember:
Tuesday
December 17th is a half-day.
Dismissal is 12 noon. If you are
picking up your child pick-up will be 12:10 P.M.
Friday
December 20th is our Holiday Party. Please do not send treats to school.
The party planners will provide sufficient snacks and entertainment for
our party.
Winter Break
is December 23, 2013- January 5, 2014.
School resumes Monday January 6, 2014
Read to your child every night!
Please sign and
return report card envelopes.
Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.
Remember to read for Six Flags Great America reading program!
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.
