Back to school!

I hope everyone had a wonderful winter break, especially the extra two days! Thank you to the parents who helped put on a great holiday party before break. It could not have been done without you!

Here is a review of our week: 

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /ch/ and /sh/. 

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, oo, OO, ch, sh,

Sounds for next week: /ng/ and /th/ 

Popcorn Words

 This week we learned: the, you, down

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, go, no, so

Next week: he, she, be

We are bringing home a sight word poem today called “Can You See a Rainbow” that reviews many of our words as well as one of our new words. This week we practiced our popcorn words using wikki sticks, snap cubes, and stamps.

Handwriting/ Writing

In writing this week we used our new January words to create a list of some of our favorite January words. We also used the words in this center to create a snowman picture and story. In our story we wrote details about our snowman. This project took several days, but we did a great job sounding out tricky words and using resources around the room to spell other words.

Reading

During reading we started a new unit. In this unit we are focusing on visualizing during reading. This week’s story, Cat’s Colors, was a review, however, we did not get to see the pictures. First we had to visualize the pictures using the words in the story, then we compared our pictures to the illustrators pictures.

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 Arctic Animals. It was sung to the tune of Up on the Housetop.

Up in the Arctic where it is cold.

There are creatures to behold.

Foxes, wolves and polar bears

Caribous and Arctic hares

Oh! Oh! Oh! White as snow.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Where did they go?

Camouflaged in fur so light.

They disappear from our sight.

Math

This week in math we started looking at place value. We will continue to work on this next week because of the short week. We also searched our classroom for the number 17. We continued counting by 10s to 100 using various place value tools. Next week we will also start looking at shapes.

Important Reminders

Half Day January 15^th

 We won the box top competition for the month of December. We will be getting a snack to celebrate!

 (date to be determined)

Kindergarten winner: Schlagbaum 1,318 box tops

Finn: 682

Maier: 989

Pitassi: 678

Olsen: 901

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

Enjoy the weekend!