Focus on Curriculum May 30, 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 the short u word
families.
Reading: This week we read A
Porcupine Named Fluffy. We learned
four new vocabulary words: pleased, soggy, unkind and kind. We also added a new poem called Summer
Vacation to our poetry binders, which will be coming home in a couple of
weeks.
Writing: The children were
given a sentence starter I went and they then had to use their best
kindergarten writing to finish the sentence.
After they were finished they had a chance to illustrate a picture. Finally, the children had a chance to come
up in front of the class and read what they had wrote and explain their
pictures. 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 reviewed all of our popcorn words. We now have ninety 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, here, 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.
Math: We continued working
on a combination of addition problems and subtraction problems at the same
time. We worked on addition and
subtraction up to and from 18. We also
played golf addition and subtraction games.
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 welcomed children’s songwriter Jim Gill to school
on Friday who put on a private concert for the kindergarten class.
Remember:
Field Trip to Brookfield Zoo Thursday June 5th. Look for information in your child’s folder
today.
Last Day of School is
Thursday June 12th
Read to your child every
night!
Please check the green folder daily.
