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 :)

Our poem this week was, I'm a Little Snowman.  The students found the rhyming words, popcorn words, and made up actions.  We added the words: ran, into, for to our popcorn word wall.  During centers the students worked on activities to learn these new words and review all of the words we have had so far.  They also worked on CVC words and read with me.  The sounds we learned in Jolly Phonics were w & v.  This week's Making Meaning story was, Maisy's Pool.  The students practiced retelling this story.  The new vocabulary words were uncomfortable, comfortable, mend & wade.  In math we have been focusing on numbers 11-20.  Some of the activities we are doing is place value, greater than/less than, and using ten frames.  Have a great weekend! 

A Peek At Next Week

Reading: Charlie Needs A Cloak by Tomie dePaola
Students will: Make text-to-self-connections, use sequence of events to retell a story, answer questions to understand the story, hear and discuss a story, listen to one another and speak clearly while taking turns.

New Vocabulary: cozy, straight, evening, complete
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
Jolly Phonics: y, x
Phonemic Awareness: letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying ending sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, language awareness
Math: Numbers to 10, counting, patterns & sorting
Handwriting: J, and review printing capitals
Popcorn Word: little, and, yes
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
Counting: forward from 1 and random numbers and backward from 20. Counting by 10's. 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
Read together :)