Dental Hygiene Week

Here’s our weekly review:

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week:-it and -in

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, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar

 Word Families: at, an, ap and am

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: four, nine, said

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, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one ,two, three

 Keep practicing these words as they continue to get more difficult!

Don’t forget the new tab at the top with ways to practice the popcorn words.

Reading

We have been practicing the reading skill “wondering.” While reading sometimes we wonder what will happen next, or about a characters feelings, or even why something has just happened. We are sharing these wonderings with our friends and teacher during story time. Last week we read our story “Henry’s Wrong Turn” and this week we read books about dental hygiene.

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, doubtful, cautious

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Loose Tooth.

Our weekly reader this week was all about our teeth and keeping them clean!

Math

In math we practiced solving addition sentences by using manipulatives, such as unifix cubes and red/yellow counters. We also practiced acting out different addition problems so that students really have an understanding for what it means when we are adding. We had some dental hygiene themed math centers with shaking addition, adding dental pictures and writing math sentences.

Important Reminders

February 28^th : No School, Institute Day

We will spend next week, March 3-March 7, celebrating Dr. Seuss. The following are some of the activities we will do:

Math Mania Monday~We will read the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and then use Goldfish for math activities. 

Top hat Tuesday~Wear your favorite hat to school. We will enjoy the book The Cat in the Hat while wearing our favorite hat!

Wacky Wednesday~Wear wacky or mixed up clothing.  We will enjoy the book Wacky Wednesday.

Silly Socks Thursday ~Wear silly or mismatched socks.  We will relax in our silly socks and enjoy the book Fox in Socks. 

Funny Food Friday~Wear green on this day.  We will focus on the book Green Eggs and Ham.

100th Day and Valentine's

We had a wonderful Valentine’s Day party today. Thank you to all of the parents who donated food, organized the activities, volunteer in the classroom, and helped their children get their valentines ready! The party was a great success and I know the students enjoyed celebrating their friendships!

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week:- ap and -am

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, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar, –at and –an

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: will, have, must

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, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump

 Keep practicing these words as they continue to get more difficult. Ask your child how to practice the word using “nose” (while spelling each letter the student holds their nose)

Don’t forget the new tab at the top with ways to practice the popcorn words.

Handwriting/ Writing

At the writing center we worked on several stories this week involving the number one hundred. We took a couple of days to write what we would do with $100 and what we will look like and do when we are 100 years old. We had some very sweet friends who thought to donate their $100, we also had others buying castles, lots of pets, and friends who were going to buy 100 roses! When we are 100 years old some of us will have a “husband,” we are going to climb mountains, and eat a lot of cupcakes!

Reading

We have been practicing a new reading skill called “wondering.” While reading sometimes we wonder what will happen next, or about a characters feelings, or even why something has just happened. We are sharing these wonderings with our friends and teacher during story time. We read many valentine themed stories this week including Splat the Cat Funny Valentine, The Day it Rained Hearts, and An Awesome book of Love.

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, doubtful, cautious

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Monster Love to the tune of: Oh my darling Clementine.

Oh my darlin’, oh my darlin’,

oh my darlin’ Valentine.

You are hairy and quite scary

but I want you to be mine.

Love your smile and your style,

And you smell of French fries.

You treat me oh so sweetly

When you bat your three big eyes!

Math

In math we continued working on addition to 5. We were also introduced to subtraction.  We will continue to use manipulatives and equations to understand how addition  and subtraction apply to our lives every day. In math centers this week we played an addition tic tac toe center. We also compared numbers in the classic card game “war.” We also did many 100th day counting activties. We worked on writing and counting our numbers up to 100. We read books about adding to 100 as well as sorting objects into piles of ten things (adding up to 100).

Important Reminders

February 17^th: No School, President's day.

February 18^th: Wear teal blue in honor of anti-bully week.

Thursday, February 20th: (Morning) Spring Picture Day - packages will be sent out in approximately 3-4 weeks. You may purchase them or return the package to school. Order forms went home earlier this week.

Saturday, February 22nd: Snowflake Ball (6:30-8:00)

We are running low on glue sticks. If anyone could donate a few extras we would be very happy. Thank you in advance!

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

Our week in review

Here is a review of the past two weeks: (sorry for the delay on last week)

Phonics

Our sounds of the week:

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, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar

We have officially finished the 42 sounds in the Jolly Phonics program. Next week we will start looking at the –at and –an word families.

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: look, good, jump

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, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now

Next week: will, have, must

Keep practicing these words as they continue to get more difficult. Ask your child how to practice the word with a “tigger bounce” (while spelling each letter the student bounces like Tigger)

I have placed a document in the email with additional ways to practice popcorn words. Also look up at the tab on the top of the page with suggestions (same).

Handwriting/ Writing

In handwriting we practiced lowercase letters t, a, d, g, i, and e . We also used the lowercase letters we have already learned to practice writing words like dog. At the writing center we got our new February writing cards. We are using these words to make lists, stories, pictures, and cards. We even noticed that some of our cards have words that we have practiced in Jolly Phonics (like statue) and have seen in books we are reading during daily 5.

Reading

We have been practicing a new reading skill called “wondering.” While reading sometimes we wonder what will happen next, or about a characters feelings, or even why something has just happened. We are sharing these wonderings with our friends and teacher during story time. We read the story A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats.

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, doubtful, cautious

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Groundhog’s Day to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Groundhog, Groundhog

asleep and brown

Please wake up and look around

If upon the ground you see,

A shadows cast then it will be

Six more weeks of cold for all

No shadow’s an early thaw!

Math 

In math these past two week we have been working on 3D shapes (sphere, cylinder, cube, and cone) as well as reviewing the 2D shapes we already know. This week we started our new unit on addition. We are working on adding up to 5. This will be a 6 week unit on addition and subtraction.

Important Reminders

February 13^th- 100^th Day (as long as we don’t have any more snow days) Please remember to have your child turn in their 100 hearts.

February 14^th Valentine’s Day party- please leave the “To” on the cards blank to help the students in when passing out their cards. We have 20 students in our class now.

We are running low on glue sticks. If anyone could donate a few extras we would be very happy. Thank you in advance!

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