This week we continued to work on wondering and sequence of events in reading.  The new vocabulary words the students learned through the story, Henry's Wrong Turn, were: signal, pursue, disappear, and warn. This week's popcorn words were number words: one, two & three.  The word families we learned were -ap & -am.  In handwriting we have finished learning all of the lowercase letters and are now reviewing and getting some extra practice.  The students should be printing their first name with one capital letter and the rest lowercase.  In math we are learning addition and subtraction and how they are related.  We use manipulatives to see how to put together and take away.  The class loves earning team paws at lunchtime, so at the beginning of this week we set a goal to try really hard to earn one this week.  Well....the class earned 3!  They were sooooo excited and proud!  Keep up the good work! 

A Peek At Next Week

Reading: Dr. Seuss stories

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, glance, peer, collide, disappointed, signal, pursue, disappear, warn
Word Families: short a (-ack, -ap, -an, -am, -ad, -ag, -ab, -at)
Phonemic Awareness: letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, language awareness
Math: addition and subtraction
Handwriting: practicing and reviewing all letters
Popcorn Word: four, nine, said
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, ue, er, ar 

Counting: forward from 1 and random numbers to 100 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, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three
Read together :)

This week we celebrated both Valentine's Day and the 100th Day of School.  We read many stories and did fun activities for both special occasions.  Our new popcorn words were: will, have & must.  Now that we have completed all of the Jolly Phonics sounds, we are working on word families.  The first two word families that we worked with this week were -at & -an.  In handwriting we are still working on learning the lowercase letters.  In math we have been working on the concepts of addition, as putting together, and subtraction, as taking away.  It was a great week!

 A Peek At Next Week

Reading: Students will: Use wondering to help them understand a nonfiction book, retell parts of the story,  share ideas with one another, & refer to the story to support their thinking.

New Vocabulary: signal, pursue, disappear, warn

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, glance, peer, collide, disappointed
Word Families: -ap, -am
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: x, z & review of all letters   
Popcorn Word: one, two, three
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, ue, er, ar 
Counting: forward from 1 and random numbers to 100 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, look, good, jump, will, have, must
Read together :)