Week of January 13th-17th

Here is a review of our week: 

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /ng/ and /th/. 

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, ng, th

Sounds for next week: /qu / and /ou / 

Popcorn Words

 This week we learned: he, she, be

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,  the, you, down

Next week our, here, out

This week we practiced our popcorn words using keyboards and wikki sticks

Handwriting/ Writing

We did another writing project this week. After practicing reading our January words and using them in pictures and lists we wrote a story about two kids and a snowman. Some of us had the kids knocking the snowman over. While others wrote about the two kids building the snowman. Each story was unique and included different January words.

Reading

During reading we continued visualizing with the story “Cookie’s Week.”.

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 I’m a Friendly Snowman. It was sung to the tune of  I’m of a little teapot.

Math

This week in math we started looking at shapes. This week’s shapes were circle, triangle, square, and rectangle (2D shapes). Next week we will be looking more at 3D shapes and their characteristics.  We continued building numbers 1-20 (and sometimes beyond) using place value blocks and tally marks.

Important Reminders

No School January 20^th

January 24^th-  We won the box top competition for the month of December. We will be getting a Oreos to celebrate!

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 3 day weekend!