Focus on Curriculum April 17, 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. Next week we will be working
on our short o word families ot and op.
Reading: This week we read Knowing
About Noses. Our new vocabulary words that go with the story were;
prey,object, unusual and fact. We read
our very own book called Some Have.
We also read There Was An Old
Lady Who Swallowed A Chick, Duck!Rabbit!, You’re my Little Bunny and other
spring books.
Writing: We continued writing
in our new writing journals. In our
journals we focus on using a capital letter to start sentences, proper
punctuation, spacing between our words, 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 eat, please, want and with
and glued them in our spirals. We now have seventy five 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, they, say, play, away, eat, please, want, with. 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 and also continued addition and subtraction. We worked on measuring different
objects. 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
a subtraction quiz taking away one.
Social Studies:
Our Weekly Reader focused on birds and the nests that they make.
Remember:
Return your permission
slip for our field trip to the Dupage Children’s Museum
Half day of school April
17th. Dismissal at 12 noon. Pick-ups at 12:15 P.M. after the buses
leave.
No School April 18th
Open House
Thursday April 24th in the evening!
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.
