Focus on Curriculum May 20, 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 u family un.
We thought of words, as a class, which ends in un. The students came up with (sun,
bun, fun, etc.)
Reading:
This week we read Giraffe’s
Can’t Dance. We also learned the new
vocabulary terms: prance, bold, splendid, sneered, and crept.
Writing: We wrote about
Gerald the Giraffe. 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 black, orange, white, and brown and glued them in
our spirals. 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, 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, 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. 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 what it would be like to live in the sea!
Art: In class we made a giraffe project with a
poem on the back. We are getting very
excited about our upcoming zoo trip.
Remember:
Please sign and return
your child’s permission slip for our field trip to the Brookfield Zoo!
Kindergarten Musical 7:00 P.M. Thursday May 26th at Lakeview
