Weekly News and Homework

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

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing L words, sing songs, read many books, recite our lion poem, stamp our sight words (soon, little, down) 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 L 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.  We have also been working on addition.  Next week we will start our unit on measurement.

Bible: This week we will learn about Samson.  We will read the Bible, sing along with Wee Sing Bible Songs and Wee Sing More Bible Songs, recite, discuss, and illustrate Proverbs 20:11 (Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?), 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:

Monday, January 20^th: No school

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

Monday, January 27^th: 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- Ll

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

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

4.     Sight word practice!  (See words listed below) FYI- from now on 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.

 

September-December Sight Words (words we 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