Focus on Curriculum May 23, 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 started working with the
short u word families um and ut.
Reading: This week we read Building
Beavers. We learned many
interesting facts about beavers and how they build their homes. We read Revenge
Of The DinoTrux and many other fun books.
We also added a few new poems to our poetry binders, which will be
coming home in a couple of weeks.
Writing: With our ABC countdown
upon us, we wrote letters to our friends in our class. We learned that a letter starts with Dear
and ends with Your Friend. We also
learned the proper punctuation when writing a letter. 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 black, orange, white, and
brown and glued them in our spirals. We now have ninety six 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, came, ate, make,
ride, was, are, saw, well, pretty, funny, under, find, blue, yellow, red, pink,
black, orange, white, brown . 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 a combination of addition problems and subtraction problems at the same
time. We completed party on addition
and muddy subtraction. We played Dino
Makes Ten and Spring Math Making Ten.
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: Our weekly reader
was all about fish. We learned that fish live in the water, have fins, have a
backbone and have gills. We talked about Memorial Day and did a coloring
page. Thank you to all the men and
women that serve our country.
Art: In class we made
a giraffe project with a poem on the back.
We are getting very excited about our upcoming zoo trip.
Remember:
No
School Monday May 26th- Memorial Day
Please sign and return
your child’s permission slip for our field trip to the Brookfield Zoo!
Read to your child every night!
Library Books must be returned the Week of May 26th.
We have gym everyday. Please remember your gym shoes.
Please check the green folder daily.
