Focus
on Curriculum
January 24, 2014
Jolly Phonics: This week the class learned the letter
combination of qu and ou. For qu we
pretend that we are a duck saying quack, and for ou we pretend we poked our
finger with a sewing needle and we say ou, ou, ouch. 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, x, oo, ch, sh, th, ng, qu, and ou. 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: This week we read books that centered on the
winter season and snowmen.
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words here, our, and out
and glued them in our spirals. We now have forty 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, go, no, so, the you, down, he, she, be, her, our, out. 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 counting to 100 and counting by tens to 100.
We focused on shapes that included, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles,
rhombuses, and hexagons. We did many
activities and played many games that included shapes
Writing:
We
wrote three sentences this week, after each story I read. We wrote the sentences: Here is a dog in his
boots. Here is my umbrella. Here is our class!
Each time we wrote a sentence we made sure we started with a capital
letter and ended with the proper punctuation.
Each sentence also included our new popcorn words of the week.
Social
Studies: We read
our Weekly Reader that focused on Penguins.
Art: After reading All
You Need For a Snowman the children had an opportunity to build their own
snowman. The children cut out one
snowball for every letter of their name and then one additional one for the
snowman’s head. On each snowball the
children wrote one letter of their name and when the snowman was complete and
you stood it up the snowman spells out the names of each child. The children were able to add arms and a
hat. The projects will be on display on
the walls by the kindergarten classrooms.
Remember
Pajama Day-
Friday January 31st.
Read to your child every night!
Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.
Remember to read for Six Flags Great America reading program due February 24th!
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.
