Fun At The Museum!

Fun At The Museum!

                    

Focus on Curriculum                 April 29, 2016 

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 family ob.  We thought of words as a class that ends in ob. The students came up with (knob, cob, job etc.)

Reading:  This week we read Chicks N’ Salsa to continue our animal unit.  We worked on a class research project on horses since we are focusing on animals, in particular, farm animals this week.  We read our very own small books All About The Farm and On The Farm With My Friends! 

Writing:  We continue writing 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 every day.  Please practice the popcorn words with your child at home.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We continued working on addition facts that add up to ten, along with subtracting numbers up to ten.  Please continue practicing reading and writing numbers 1 through 20. 

Social Studies:  Our Weekly Reader focused on seeds.

Art:  We completed a horse project that will be on display in our hallway.

Remember:

Read to your child every night!

Do not forget to place your Scholastic book orders.

 

Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays

 

We have gym every day.  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.

Happy Earth Day!

Focus on Curriculum                 April 22, 2016

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 family op.  We thought of words as a class that ends in op. The students came up with (hop, cop, shop, stop, etc.)

Reading:  This week we read Hey Little Ant and in celebration of Earth Day we read How to Help the Earth by the Lorax.

Writing:  We wrote about the story Hey Little Ant.  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 came, make, ate and ride and put them in our popcorn word bags. We now have seventy nine 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.  We are going to keep our popcorn bags 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We continued to practice addition facts that add up to ten, along with subtracting numbers up to ten.  Please continue practicing reading and writing numbers 1 through 20. We also completed Earth Day Math activities and a flower project that focused on counting to 100 by tens.

Social Studies:  Our Weekly Reader focused on frogs.

Art:  We made an Earth Day project using markers and then spraying it with water and an I love Earth project. Lastly, we completed a Hey Little Ant project.  They came out great!

Thank you to all for coming to our Open House!

                                   

Remember:

Please check the district site for information on our district auction.

Read to your child every night!

Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.

Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays

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.

Going Green!

Going Green!

                    

Focus on Curriculum                 April 15, 2016

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 family ot.  We thought of words as a class that end in ot. The students came up with (hot, not, cot, knot, etc.)

Reading:  This week we read Seed to Plant and Dandelions.  We also learned the new vocabulary terms: germination, pollination, seedling and soil.  We completed many activities that centered around seeds and plants.  We added the poem Sunflower Song to our poetry binders. We read our very own The Hearts book that focused on our new popcorn word with.

Writing:  We continued writing in our 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 eat, please, want and with and put them in our popcorn word bags. We now have seventy 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, 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 . We keep our popcorn word bags 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We continued to practice addition facts that add up to ten, along with subtracting numbers up to ten. Please continue practicing reading and writing numbers 1 through 20.   

Social Studies:  Our Weekly Reader focused on trees and all the uses of trees. We also did a plant project and a few Earth Day projects.  They will be on display on our class bulletin board.

                                   

Remember:

Open House- Thursday April 21^st

Read to your child every night!

Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.

 

Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays 

 

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.

Spring!

Focus on Curriculum                 April 8, 2016   

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 i family ip.

Reading:  This week we read Seed to Plant, Dandelions, Over the Meadow, The Very Lazy Ladybug, and The Thing About Spring!.  We also learned the new vocabulary terms: germination, pollination, seedling and soil.  We completed many activities that centered around seeds and plants.  We added the poem Sunflower Song to our poetry binder.

Writing:  We continued writing in our 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.  We wrote about what we did over spring break.

Popcorn Words:  This week we cut out the popcorn words they, say, play and away and put them in our popcorn word bags. We now have seventy one 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.  We are going to keep our popcorn bags 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.  The words are getting difficult.

Math:  We continued to practicing our addition facts that add up to ten, along with subtracting numbers up to ten. 

Social Studies:  Our Weekly Reader focused on caterpillars.

Art:  We completed a flower project which included labeling the different parts of a flower.

                                   

Remember:

Wednesday April 13^th is a half day.

Read to your child every night!

Do not forgot to place your Scholastic book orders.

Bring Library Books on Mondays and Wednesdays

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.