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Friday, January 31, 2014

In reading this week, the students worked on the strategy: wondering. We practiced wondering through stories such as, Brave Bear.
The new vocabulary words this week include doubtful, confident, courageous & persistent. The sounds we worked on in Jolly Phonics were ou & oi. We discovered that ow and oy make those sounds also. The popcorn words we learned this week were get, help & now. Continue to review all of the popcorn words at home so the students know them quickly by sight.  In math we have been working on 2dand 3d shapes such as the circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, sphere, cube, cone & cylinder. The kids have been so excited to find these shapes at home and at school!  Have a great weekend! 
A Peek At Next Week
Reading: Students will: Use wondering to help them understand a story, retell parts of the story,  share ideas with one another, & refer to the story to support their thinking.
New Vocabulary: glance, peer, collide, disappointed
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, various, edge, fits, cupboard, amusing, upset, grin, stuck, unpleasant, pleasant, crowded, uncrowded, doubtful, confident, courageous, persistent
Jolly Phonics: ue, er, ar
Phonemic Awareness: letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, language awareness
Math: addition and subtraction
Handwriting: lowercase letters: 
Popcorn Word: look, good, jump
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), ch, sh,ng, th, qu, ou, oi 
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, the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now
Read together :)

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