Happy Mother's Day!
Focus on Curriculum May 6, 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 og.
We thought of words as a class that ends in og. The students came up with (log,
dog, jog etc.)
Reading: This week we read Rainbow Fish and Sharks by National Geographic for Kids. In Rainbow
Fish we talked about how important sharing and giving are and how they are
more rewarding than receiving.
Writing: We continued to write in our 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 pretty, funny, under and find and put them
in our popcorn word bags. We now have eighty eight 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, pretty, funny, under, find. Our spirals are going home
today. We are going to 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 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.
Art: We completed two Rainbow Fish projects. We made a Mother’s
Day gift that went home on Thursday.
Please keep an eye out for a project that we made in class with your
child’s handprints. The children were so
excited to make each and every mom a special Mother’s Day gift.
Remember:
Friday May 13th
is a half-day.
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.
