Spring Break!

 

Focus on Curriculum            

March 28, 2014 

Jolly Phonics: We have completed all our jolly phonics sounds. Now we know the sounds of the letters and letter combinations: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, oa, oa, ie, ee, or, oo, ch, sh, ng, th, ou, qu, ue, oi, er, ar, z, w, v, y, and z.  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 have learned this year. It is for your reference so you can practice with your children each letter and the sound of that letter.

Word Family’s: This week we reviewed our short e word families en and ed.

Reading:  This week we read Tools.  Tools is a story about all the different tools people use around the world to help us complete jobs.  Our new vocabulary words that go with the story were; useful, similar, repair and communicate.  We also read Rain, Rain Go Away! And Pete The Cat At The Beach!

Writing:  We started writing in our new writing journals.  In our journals we focus on using a capital letter to start sentences, proper punctuation and spacing and the neatness of our writing.  We also reread our writing to make sure it makes sense.  On each page of our writing journals we have a check list to double check our writing.

Popcorn Words:  This week we cut out the popcorn words who, what, and where and glued them in our spirals. We now have sixty seven 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, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, nine, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come, do, all, there, who, what, where. 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We continued working on measurement and data.  We talked about shorter, longer, length and height.  Please continue practicing reading and writing numbers 1 through 20.  Please continue to practice addition facts that add up to ten along with subtracting numbers up to ten.  We took our addition quiz with facts up to five by adding 2 to each number.

Remember:

Spring Break March 31^st through April 6^th.  Classes resume April 7^th.

Our Spring Class Art Projects are Due Monday April 14^th.

Read to your child every night!

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.

Spring Is Here!

Spring Is Here!

                    

Focus on Curriculum            

March 21, 2014 

Jolly Phonics: We have completed all our jolly phonics sounds. Now we know the sounds of the letters and letter combinations: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, oa, oa, ie, ee, or, oo, ch, sh, ng, th, ou, qu, ue, oi, er, ar, z, w, v, y, and z.  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 have learned this year. It is for your reference so you can practice with your children each letter and the sound of that letter.

Word Family’s: This week we reviewed our short i word families.  We worked on the it, in, ip and ing word families.  We also talked about words ending in ig

Reading:  This week we read St. Patrick’s Day stories and spring stories.  We read Clever Tom And The Leprechaun, In Like A Lion Out Like a Lamb, Little Quack’s New Friends, and For Everyone To Share.  We also read our very own Too Little, Too Big book.

Writing:  We wrote the sentence I was very lucky_______ and the students finished the sentence with their own thoughts to tie in with St. Patrick’s Day.  We also played a consonant vowel consonant game where the students had to search the room for pots of gold that had a picture on them.  The students then had an answer sheet where they had to write the correct word in the corresponding spot.  Lastly, the students then read back the correct responses to the class.  For example (I like my hat.)

Popcorn Words:  This week we cut out the popcorn words do, all, and there and glued them in our spirals. We now have sixty four 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, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, nine, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come, do, all, there. 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We started working on measurement and data.  We talked about shorter, longer, length and height.  Please continue practicing reading and writing numbers 1 through 20.  Please continue to practice addition facts that add up to ten along with subtracting numbers up to ten.

Social Studies: We read our Weekly Reader, which was about the wind and what the wind does!

Remember:

Read to your child every night!

Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.

Spring Break March 31^st through April 6^th.  Classes resume April 7^th.

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.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!                    

Focus on Curriculum            

March 14, 2014 

Jolly Phonics: We have completed all our jolly phonics sounds. Now we know the sounds of the letters and letter combinations: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, oa, oa, ie, ee, or, oo, ch, sh, ng, th, ou, qu, ue, oi, er, ar, z, w, v, y, and z.  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 have learned this year. It is for your reference so you can practice with your children each letter and the sound of that letter.

Word Family’s: This week we worked on the short i word families.  We worked on the ip and ing word families.  We start with one of the word family endings: ip or ing, and then we add different letters to the beginning of the endings to make new words.  For example, for the ip word family we formed the words (rip, tip, drip, etc.)  We even talked about the ig family.

Reading:  This week we read A Day With A Doctor and A Day With A Mail Carrier!  We learned about what a doctor and mail carrier does for a living.  We learned the new vocabulary words prevent, healthy, load and important.  We also read the Dr. Seuss book A Wocket In My Pocket and created our very own Dr. Seuss character.

Writing:  We wrote about Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Seuss.  In our writing we were able to use many of our new popcorn words suck as look, and, out, here, and come.

Popcorn Words:  This week we cut out the popcorn words soon, went, and come and glued them in our spirals. We now have sixty one 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, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, nine, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come. 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We continued working on subtraction, subtracting from numbers up to ten and continued to practice addition facts that add up to ten.  Please practice reading and writing numbers 1 through 20.  Please continue to practice addition facts that add up to ten along with subtracting numbers up to ten.  We also had our second minute timed test on addition facts up to five by adding one to each number.

Social Studies: We read our Weekly Reader, which was about St. Patrick’s Day!

Art:  The students really enjoyed making their own leprechaun to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!  They will be in your child’s backpack today!

Remember:

No School-Monday March 17^th and March 18th

Read to your child every night!

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.

Wacky Week!

Wacky Week!

                    

Focus on Curriculum            

March 7, 2014       

Jolly Phonics: We have completed all our jolly phonics sounds. Now we know the sounds of the letters and letter combinations: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, oa, oa, ie, ee, or, oo, ch, sh, ng, th, ou, qu, ue, oi, er, ar, z, w, v, y, and z.  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 have learned this year. It is for your reference so you can practice with your children each letter and the sound of that letter.

Word Family’s: We worked on the it and in word families.  We start with one of the word family endings: it or in, and then we add different letters to the beginning of the endings to make new words.  For example, for the it word family we formed the words (hit, pit, sit, kit, fit etc.).

Reading:  This week we celebrated Dr. Seuss all week long since his birthday was March 2^nd.  We read many of his classics along with a few new books.  We read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Oh the Thinks You Can Think!, The Cat In The Hat, The Cat In The Hat Comes Back!, Wacky Wednesday, Horton Hears A Who!, Fox in Socks, and Green Eggs and Ham.

Writing:  We wrote about the Dr. Seuss book Wacky Wednesday and illustrated wacky pictures that we shared with our classmates.  We also wrote about Green Eggs and Ham.

Popcorn Words:  This week we cut out the popcorn words this, that, and new and glued them in our spirals. We now have fifty 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, go, no, so, the you, down, he, she, be, her, our, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, nine, said, this, that, new. 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We focused on subtracting numbers, from numbers up to ten and continued to practice addition facts that add up to ten.  We used colored goldfish crackers with these activities that went along with one of our stories One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Please practice reading and writing numbers 1 through 20.  Please continue to practice addition facts that add up to ten along with subtracting numbers up to ten.  We also had our first minute timed test on addition facts up to five by adding zero to each number.

Social Studies: We read our Weekly Reader, which was about Dr. Seuss.

Art:  The students really enjoyed making their own green eggs and ham.  The boys and girls will be bringing them home to share with their families.

We had a lot of fun celebrating Dr. Seuss!

Remember:

No School-Monday March 17^th and March 18th

Read to your child every night!

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.