Focus on Curriculum May 29, 2015
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 u family ut.
We thought of words, as a class, which ends in ut. The students came up with (cut,
nut, shut etc.)
Reading:
This week we read What
Would You Do with a Tail like This?
We also learned the new vocabulary terms: pesky, warn, squirted, scoop,
leap, and capture. Our poetry binders
will be coming home next week.
Writing: We started our
animal projects. There are teams of
students working on projects about polar bears, alligators, sharks, and
dolphins. We continued our unit
in writing where we are focusing on writing our very own multiple page stories. In our journals we focus on using a capital
letter to begin our 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 every day. Please practice the popcorn words with your child at
home.
Math: We revisited shapes. 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.
Congratulations to all my
kindergarten students for doing such a great job at the concert tonight. I am very proud of you.
Remember:
We are welcoming children’s songwriter Jim Gill to school
on Monday to put on a private concert for the kindergarten class.
Field
Trip to Brookfield Zoo Thursday June 4th
Last
Day of School is Tuesday June 9th.
