Focus on Curriculum
January 16, 2015
Jolly Phonics: This week the class
learned the letter combination of ng and th.
For ng we pretend that we are strong. Now
we know the sounds of the letters: s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, r, h, m, d, g,
o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v, y, x, oo, ch, sh, th, and
ng. 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 will learn this year. It is for your reference so you can
practice with your children as we learn each new letter and the sound of that
letter.
Reading: This week we read the book Love You
Forever. We also listened to an audio version of the book without
pictures, and listened to the story read to us on the computer. We took a big piece of construction paper
and folded it in half. On one side we
drew a picture of what we saw when the audio version of the book was read to us
and on the other half we drew a picture after we saw the pictures from the
story. We also read some winter stories
such as Snowmen At Work, Snowmen All Year and The Mitten!
Word Family’s:
This week we started our word families.
We worked on the at word family.
First we started with our sight word at and then we add different
letters to the beginning of the word at to make new words. For example, for the at word family we
formed the words (cat, bat, hat, mat, rat, etc.)
Popcorn Words:
This week we cut out the popcorn words he, she, and be and
glued our words in our popcorn word ring.
We are going to keep our popcorn word rings in the front sleeve of our
green folder so we can practice our words at school and at home. Please practice the popcorn words
with your child at home.
Math: We continued counting to 100 by ones and tens. We started our subtraction unit. Our center
activities have a winter theme.
Writing:
We
wrote the sentence: He is a strong man!
The children noticed that three of the words are our popcorn words and
the other two words the children were able to read using their decoding skills. After they wrote their sentence, they had a
chance to color the strong man on the page.
Using the word strong was a good review of the ng jolly phonics
lessons from this week.
Social
Studies: We read
our Weekly Reader that focused on Martin L. King Jr. and his fight that all
people would live in peace. We did a
writing activity that focused on Martin L. King Jr.
Art: We completed a
mitten project, which is hanging on the bulletin board outside our classroom.
Remember:
No
School-Monday January 19th Martin Luther King Day
Join us at Ide for
Literacy Night on Thursday, January 29th. Please use the link below to sign up! –
Do Not Forget To Order
From Scholastic Books!
We have snack every
morning. Please remember to send a
healthy snack with your child each day, such as a fruit or vegetable.
Also, please
remember our room is a peanut/nut free room due to allergies.
Bring Library Books on Mondays and Thursdays
We have gym everyday.
Please remember your gym shoes.
Please check the green folder daily and turn in Box Tops
to earn money for our school!
