December 8th-12th

Here is our week in review

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /y/ and /x/

Sounds we know: /s/, /a/, /t/,  /i/ /p/, /n/, /c/ , /k/, /e/, /h/, /r/, /d/, /o/, /u/, /l/, /f/, /b/, /j/, /ai/,/oa/ /ie/ /ee/ /or/, /w/ and /v/

Popcorn Words

We learned: yes, no
Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, we, me, am,  did, not, can, is, but, to, too, ran, into, for, little, and

Reading

During our reading time we read the book Arthurs Perfect Christmas by Marc Brown. Through this book we discussed the meaning of traditions and those in which our families have. Many of the students shared their traditions that related to different holidays, but we also came up with traditions that may be for a special occasion such as taking a picture the first day of school. Then we watched Arthurs Perfect Christmas the movie and compared the similarities and differences in the movie and book.  We focused on vocabulary words such as Hanukkah (celebrated by the character Francine in the book) and Kwanzaa (celebrated by the character Brain). 

Our poem this week was called A Cute Little Snowman. We searched for vowel letters in this poem as well as our popcorn words.

Our weekly reader was about Holiday Lights. We identified the main idea and details of our magazine as well as played a holiday I spy game!

Math

In math this week we started finished topic 6, counting to 100, and began topic 7 understanding addition. Our math centers focused on finding, counting and writing teen numbers. We practiced reading number words from 1-10 and worked on putting numbers together on items such as two dice (beginning addition).

Important Reminders

December 16th Half Day

December 19th- Holiday Party and Silly Sweater Day

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