It's been a cold start to the new year!  I hope the students are enjoying their days off and are staying warm.  This week we are reading the story, The Relatives Came.  The vocabulary words from this story are: relatives, silent, tend, squeeze, wrinkled.  Our new popcorn words are: the, you & down.  The sounds we are learning in Jolly Phonics are ch and sh.  In math we are continuing to work on addition skills and strategies.  Next week the students will be taking MAPS tests.  Please make sure your child gets a good night's sleep, has a good breakfast, and just encourage them to do the best they can!  Data will be sent home when it is available.
                                      A Peek At Next Week
                                       Reading: Love You Forever
                      Vocabulary: rocked, flushed, strange, grown-up
Phonemic Awareness: letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying final and medial sounds, segmenting, adding & deleting phonemes, substituting phonemes, language awareness

Math: Addition

Handwriting: Pp

Popcorn Words: he, she, be

Jolly Phonics: ng, th

Library: Mondays (book return/check out) and Thursdays

Art: Tuesdays
Music: Wednesdays and Fridays
Gym & Recess: Everyday
Things to review and practice: 
Phonics: recognition & sounds of the letters 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, ch, sh

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, no, go, so, the, you, down

                                         Read together :)                                         

                                   Reminders: Our class will have Aims Web testing on Friday, January 9th.  Kindergarten MAPS testing will be next week.  Friday, January 16th is a SIP day in district 66.  Ide students will be dismissed at noon.  There is no school on Monday, January 19th for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.