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 :)