Monday, January 6, 2014

Weekly News and Homework


WELCOME BACK!  I hope you all had a great break!!  I had a wonderful Christmas with my family and an exciting trip to France with my sister and two best friends.  I can’t wait to tell the Vomvokids all about it and hear about their adventures as well!    

Here is a small taste of what we’ll do this week:

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing B words, sing songs, read many books, recite our bear poem, stamp our sight words (what, help) and practice spelling them every day, write upper and lower case letters, write in our journals, sing about letter sounds, make and learn to read B books, continue our literacy center rotations, and more!!

Math:  We will continue our unit on Numbers through 10.  We will also count by 1s, 5s, and10s (to 100!), work with our number of the day (Spanish, tally marks, addition and subtraction problems, etc), and graph the weather.

Bible: This week we will learn about Joshua and Jerico.  We will read the Bible, sing along with Wee Sing Bible Songs and Wee Sing More Bible Songs, recite, discuss, and illustrate Proverbs 16:32 (better a patient person than a warrior,
one with self-control than one who takes a city), and pray together every day.   

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc: This month’s themes are winter animals, seasons, and weather.  In addition, we will celebrate the New Year and learn about Martin Luther King Jr.  We will also continue to do our team jobs, attend art class, music class, library, computer lab, and PE, explore the classroom during choice time, and more!!!

Sharing:  We have a sharing time every Friday during our afternoon meeting.

 

Upcoming Events:

Today, January 6th: Chapel, 2:25-2:55.  Join us!

Monday, January 20th: No school

Friday, January 24th: Minimum Day, out at 12.  End of 2nd Quarter

Monday, January 27th: Character Trait Chapel, 2:25-2:55.  Join us!

 

This Week’s Homework:

The following assignments should be completed by Friday:


1.     Phonics page for the letter of the week- Bb

2.     Handwriting page for the letter of the week- Bb

3.     2-3 choices from our monthly family activity calendar.

4.     Sight word practice!  (See words listed below) FYI- starting next week we will learn 3 new sight words every week.

5.     Ten minutes (or more!) of reading every night with a parent, guardian, or older sibling, etc.  I’m sure your child would love to read the book in his or her small manila folder to you!  Sight words are fun to read together, too.  Reading together every night is VERY important.  Let’s work together to develop a love of books and reading in our children!


School library books are due every Wednesday morning.

 

Sight Word Practice:

Please continue practicing these words with your child until he or she can read them fluently.

 
September-December Words [words we (should)already know]

I
big
we
can
in
it
like
up
a
find
see
two
not
go
to
red
have
name
is
make
play
too
are
run
for
blue
you
jump
this
do
and
one
 

 

January’s Sight Words (new words)

what
help
soon
little
down
here
was
ran
she
three
are
 

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