January 19th

Field Trip--Wittenbach Nature Center

Thursday, Feb. 8th we will be going to the nature center, across from the high school.  We will learn to be scientists in the winter.  I am looking for parent volunteers to join us.  Please email me if you are available to meet us there from 9:30am-12:00pm.  We will return in time for lunch.  Kindergartners will need to be dressed to be outside a good portion of the time and will want a snack that will fit in their coat pocket.  

Phonics

This week we learned about the short vowel /e/.  We have now officially learned all 5 short vowels.  We have been building words, reading and writing lots of CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant).

Here are some words to practice reading and writing at home:

men     ten     pug    sob    fed   

New Heart Word:  to   do   of   said

(These are the irregular words that we must learn by heart.)

Decodable Sight Words:   did   can   cut    up    us   got   big    

Our full list of Heart Words so far:  Our goal is to be reading and writing each of these words fluently:  

the    I    and   at    a   if   it  

 is    in   as   an   am   on   not   to   do   of   said   can

up   but   got   get  did   us   big  

Math

We are learning to...

*Add two groups of objects, up to a sum of 10

*Write addition number equations

*Identify and count teen numbers

*Count to 100 by 1's and 10's

Writing

We are learning to...

*Tell a story by illustrating

*Label our story with beginning sounds

*Retell our stories

*Form letters correctly and neatly

*We are learning to illustrate a beginning, middle and end of a story.

* Writing simple sentence strings

*Put space between our words

Reminders

*  Send a snack daily.  Be sure it is separate from their lunches and easy to find.

*  Return library books every Thursday.

Take a Peek at our Week...