Focus on Curriculum May 1, 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 our short o word
family ock
Reading: This week we read A
Tiger Cub Grows Up. Our new vocabulary words that go with the story were;
wild, tame, creep, and pounce. Our poem
that we read was Stung.
Writing: We continued writing
in our new writing journals. We wrote
about what we did over the weekend and what I like to do at school. We also wrote about what we saw on our field
trip to the Dupage Children’s Museum.
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 was, are, saw and well
and glued them in our spirals. We now have eighty three 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. 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. 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. In our
math centers we played digging for bones, gumball addition and subtraction,
subtraction buzz, and games on our class ipad.
Social Studies:
Our Weekly Reader was titled B is for Babies. We talked about different baby animals.
Art: We
made a flower project. It will be
coming home with your child today.
We
had a great time at the DuPage Children’s Museum. Thank you to all!
Remember:
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.
