Week 22 - January 22, 2013

Hello,

The kids are doing a great job preparing their dance for Chinese New Year. They are doing a great job and are looking forward to you coming to see. We have been counting down how many days until mommies and daddies come.

This week:

Monday:
Writing - Uu - Like last week the prompts I use for upper case U is "top, down, around, up." For lower case u I say "middle, down, around, up, down."
Phonics - Ll - Students will listen to a poem called Two Little Lambs. They must then go through the poem to find all the upper and lower case l's.
Dance class
Language Arts - What do school workers do? - students will learn what it is that the lunch lady, librarian, custodian, bus driver, teacher and secretary do.
Math - symmetry

Tuesday:
Writing - Upper case U
Phonics - Ll - students will learn to write upper case L and lower case l. My prompts for the upper case is "top, bottom, across." For the lower case I say "top, bottom."Students will identify the l sound in log, ladybug, lizard and leaf.
Language Arts - What do school workers do?
Math - symmetry
Library
Social Studies - How food gets from the farm to the table.

Wednesday:
Writing - lower case u
Phonics - Students will hear the l sound in lion, lemon, lobster, log, leaf and leg. They will also hear that there is no l sound in fish, tiger, peanut, duck, mouse, and bear.
Language Arts - What do neighbourhood workers do? - students will know what police officers, garbage men, mail carriers, fire fighters and dentists do.
Christian Living
Art

Thursday:
Writing - students will learn to write and recognize the sight word under and up
Phonics - Students will identify the l sound in lamp, ladder and lock
Science - Bodies of water - students will know the difference between oceans, lakes and rivers
Math - symmetry
Story Time - Clark the Shark - arts and craft activity

Friday:
Writing - students will learn to write and recognize the sight word us. Review of other sight words
Phonics - Art activity to reinforce learning of Ll
Science - Bodies of water
Math - symmetry
Social Studies - how food gets from the farm to the table
Music

Homework: p. 3 and p. 18 - this page is on the sight word "the." Because the "th" sound doesn't match the first letter, this is a harder word for them to recognize. But they have learned it. Once they have written "the" on all the lines, have them read the sentence. They might not recognize some of the pictures, so please help them. They are drum, trumpet, piano. So they will say "I like the drum." They know how to read "I" and "like."

Have a good week! Ali