Frozen Snowflake!

Here is a review of our week: 

We wrote letters to the North Pole last week asking for an Elf to join our class. It looks like our wishes were granted because Monday morning an elf was on our word wall. Throughout the week we have joyful came in each morning looking for our new classmate. He has kept a watchful eye on each one of us and continues to remind us to be responsible, respectful, and safe at school. (Picture below!)

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /y/ and /x/. 

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x 

Sounds for next week: /oo/ and /OO/ 

Popcorn Words

 This week we learned: little, and, yes

We read books and poems that included our popcorn words. 

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes

Next week: go, no, so

Handwriting/ Writing

In handwriting this week we practiced sounding out the letters that create words. This week we started our Elf Adventures journal. Each day we had made a new page in our journal about the elf that has joined our class. We named our elf, Frozen Snowflake.

Reading

During reading we read Charlie’s Needs a New Cloak by Tomie DePaolo.

Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, filthy, slam, concerned, moan, observe, enormous, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, cozy and straight.

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Winter Here.It was sung to the tune of Jingle Bells. We even got to sing it for Miss. Wyse the music teacher. She was very impressed!

Winter’s here, winter’s here

time to hibernate.

Big black bear is in his lair

sleeping until late.

Rabbits, bats, badgers, skunks

they are resting too.

Snuggled deep and fast asleep

till spring begins anew!

Math

We continued our numbers unit this week. This week we worked on finding and reading the number 15. We also searched our classroom for the number 15. We also continued practicing sequencing numbers from 1-20 through various games. We continue counting by 10s to 100. This week we played games with more than and less than. We learned the “alligator” (< or >) also wants to eat the bigger number.  At math centers we also started working on place value. This is a tricky concept, but we will continue to focus more on it next week. Next week we will also review missing numbers from 1-20.

Important Reminders

Half Day December 17^th

 Box Tops due December 19^th (We have gotten a ton of box tops hopefully it puts us in the lead!)

If the weather is below 20 degrees we will not be going outside for recess!

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