1. Kindergarten

   
   

   
   

   Language Arts- So far this new year we have learned 

   2 songs; January and Dr. King.  We have learned the sounds for sh, ch, th and ng.

   Words to add to the popcorn list: the, you, down, she, he & be.  In handwriting 

   we have been working on "magic C" letters.  These letters are made my making a 

   C first, they include: C, G, O, Q and S in the uppercase letters.

   Math- We continue to work with numbers 0-10.  We have been focusing on adding 

   and subtracting with these numbers using manipulatives.

   
   

    1st grade tier 3 reading

   We have been working on long vowel words with the silent e both reading and 

   spelling these words.  We also have focused on sounds you hear at the ends of 

   words.  

   Benchmarking took place at the beginning of the month and we reviewed data this

   week.  Notes will be going home with report cards next week regarding changes

   to tier 2/3 reading.

  Kindergarten
Language Arts- Our new songs are, "Candy Cane Chorus" and "Reindeer on Rooftops".  Look for the songs to come home on Friday.  We learned the letters and sounds for x and y.  We also learned the two sounds that oo can make.  New popcorn words include: little, and, yes, no, so & go.  Keep practicing the letters, sounds and words over the break.  We are seeing great progress here!!
Math- We continue to work with numbers through 10.  Our centers the past two weeks included the following: ordering cups by number and putting the correct number of sticks in each, number puzzles, numbering dog bones,  gingerbread baking and hot chocolate dash.

1st grade tier 3 reading
We continued to work with word endings.  We focused on the following short vowel endings: -it, -in, ig, -op, -og, -ot, -ill, and -all.  We also began to look at some long vowel endings including: -ade, -ake, -ike, -ile, and -ide.  We have started reading level D books, which are somewhat equivalent to a DRA level 6.  Continue reading daily with your child over the break!!

ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS!!!

Kindergarten

Reading- Our song for the week was December.  We worked on the letters and sounds for w and v.  We made a walrus and a vulture.  Popcorn words for the week were: ran, into, & for.  We are working on sounding out simple CVC words, using all of the letters that we have learned thus far.

Math- We continued to work on numbers 0-10.  We matched numbered apples to their stems.  We played a bean bag toss game and determined greater and lesser numbers.  We also used a "10-frame" and counted cats.  

On Friday, we made some reindeer using graph paper.

RTi-1st grade tier 3 reading 

We completed filling in our short vowel chart using short u words.  We began to talk about word chunks this week we worked with -at, -an, -et, -en, -am, and -ad.  The students are doing a great job of reading their daily leveled books.  I hope you are enjoying them as well.  We had our progress monitor day on Friday rather than Thursday this week so there is no homework this weekend.  

Kindergarten
Reading- We reviewed all of our November songs.  Look for them to come home today.  This week we learned the sounds for "ee", "or" and "z".  Our new popcorn words included; to, too & do.  We worked on building sentences with our popcorn words.  We continue to review all of our letters, sounds and words.  Practice blending sounds together to make words!
Writing- We worked on the formation of capital U,V,W and X.
Math- We put numbers in order from 1-10.  We counted out bears and birds.  We practiced writing numbers on the dry erase board.  We played a game working on greater than and less than with numbers 0-10.

1st grade tier 3 reading
We worked on the short vowel sounds and began filling in our own vowel books.  We learned a poem to assist us in remembering which letters are vowels.  Continue to read the books that come home each day.  Repeated reading increases fluency as well as word recognition.  The boys should bring home a book each day with the exception of Thursday.  Each Thursday, I progress monitor their reading fluency and sight word fluency. We also spend time working on the kindergarten and 1st grade sight words and I-station on the computer.

 Kindergarten


Language Arts- We worked on the sounds made by oa, and ie.  We introduced many new popcorn words including; am, did, not, can, but and is.  We continue to review letter names and sounds.  We are also working on building CVC words.  

Math- We are working on numbers 0-10.  Students need to know the name of each number, the symbol that represents it, 1-1 correspondence and greater and less than.

Handwriting-  We played a guess the "frog jump" letter activity.  Frog jump letters capitals are F,E,D,P,B,R,N, & M.

1st grade tier 3 reading-We continue to read leveled books daily.  Watch for red folders to come home at least 3-4 times/ week.  We are working on reading and writing CVC words and basic sight words.  

Kindergarten
Reading- We have worked on the letters and sounds for f, b, and j.  This week we learned our first vowel pair ai.  The students took home their October songs on Halloween, hopefully you enjoyed hearing them sing them.  
Math- We are working on number sense from 0-5.  This includes recognizing, writing, 1-1 correspondence and comparing these numbers.  
     We welcomed in 5 new students to our afternoon classroom this Wednesday.  They make a great addition to the 4 students we already had!!!

RTI- 1st grade tier 3 reading
The students have been busy reading a variety of books.  Continue to reread these as they come home in the red pouch during the week.  As we begin to focus on writing responses to what we read, I am noticing that some students don't understand the difference between upper and lower case letters.  When reading, have your child locate the uppercase letters.  Discuss why that letter was used within the text.

Kindergarten
   Language Arts- Our song for the week was "Spiders All Over Me".  The students are doing a great job when it comes to locating their popcorn words within the various songs we sing.  We learned about the letter u and l.  We followed directions to make an umbrella and a lion.  We are focusing on words that rhyme.  At home you can read some rhyming book (Dr. Seuss is known for this) and have your child pick out or predict the words that rhyme.
  Fine Motor- We worked on the letters B and R.  They are both "frog jump" letters.
  Math- We made spiders to hang in our classroom, but first practice our positional vocabulary with them.  Making them move over, under, above, below, behind...We made patterns while working the 2-D shapes that the students need to know: square, circle, rectangle, triangle and hexagon.  We made AB, AAB, ABB and ABC patterns with cubes.  We also learned about patterns that grow.

RTI- 1st grade reading tier 3
  We read the stories, "Ant Can't", "Eggs", and "Where Things Grow".  We completed our alphabet linking chart.  We worked on syllables, rhyming and beginning sounds.