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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The students have been enjoying gingerbread stories and poems.  We have read The Gingerbread Baby, Gingerbread Friends, The Gingerbread Bear, and Gingerbread Pirates.  We will also read The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Boy, The Gingerbread Man, and The Gingerbread Cowboy.  The new popcorn words we have had are: little, and yes, go, no so. We have been doing many fun reading activities in partners and small groups.  In math we have been spending a lot of time understanding teen numbers.  The activities we are doing involve understanding place value of numbers 1-20, greater than, less than, and equal to and missing numbers. 
A Peek At Next Week (the week of January 6th)
January 7-10 Maps testing
January 14th Aims-Web testing
Reading: Students will: Practice visualizing with a familiar text, connect mental images with a poem, learn and use the cooperative structure, "Think, Pair, Share", begin working with new partners, give each other time to think. 
New Vocabulary: various, edge, fits, cupboard
Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, enormous,  assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, slam, filthy, concerned, moan, enormous, observe, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, wade, mend, cozy, straight, evening, complete
Jolly Phonics: ch, sh
Phonemic Awareness: letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, language awareness
Math: 2d and 3d shapes: square, circle, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, cube, cone, cylinder, sphere 
Handwriting: lowercase letters: magic c,o,s
Popcorn Word: the, you, down
Library: Mondays (book return/check out) and Wednesdays

Art: Tuesdays
Music: Thursdays and Fridays 
Gym & Recess: Everyday
Things to review and practice: 
phonics:recognition & sounds of/making words with s, a, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v, y, x, oo (2 sounds)
Counting: forward from 1 and random numbers and backward from 20. Counting by 10's to 100. Number formation, recognition, place value and counting objects #1-20,
Practice popcorn words: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too, ran, into, for, little, and, yes, go, no, so
Read together :)

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