Happy New Year!  Last week we read the story, The Relatives Came.  We talked about vocabulary words such as: relatives, tend, squeeze, wrinkled, & silent.Our new popcorn words were: the, you, down.  The new sounds we learned in Jolly Phonics were: ch & sh. In math we started learning about 2d shapes such as the circle and square.  We have been talking about the number of sides and vertices (corners) shapes have.  During math centers, students made shapes with play-doh, completed a shapes booklet, made pictures with tangram shapes, and learned to count by 2's to 20.  We had a great week to begin 2016!
                                                                         A Peek At Next Week:
                                                          Reading: Love You Forever
                                                                      Jolly Phonics: ng, th
                                                              Popcorn Words: he, she, be
                                                             Math: shapes

                                                                   Library: Tuesday & Thursday

                                                                          Art: Wednesday

                                                                            Music: 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

Math: counting to 100 by 1's and 10's, recognizing & comparing numbers 1-20, finding the missing number 1-20, recognizing and naming shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, hexagon)

Reminders: Friday, January 15th is School Improvement Day in District 66.  Students will be dismissed at 11:35 a.m.  Please send a healthy snack, but they do not need a lunch on this day.