January 12th-16th

January 16, 2015

This week in Fundations focused on the uppercase letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H and tapping out CVC words.

Our sight words for the week were: see, look

At school this week we:

·        Practiced tapping with the words from last week

o   The words of the week were: mat, map, sad, sat, sap, sip, sit, mop, mud, rat, rap, rag, nap, nip, fit, fig, fog, lit, lip, lap, rip, set, fat

·        Read 5 Little Ducklings

·        Introduced decomposition

o   Decomposition is breaking a number down into parts

o   We began with the number 5

·        Went to a band concert

·        Watched Bao Bao the baby panda on the Panda Cam put together by the National Zoological Park.

o   http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/webcams/giant-panda.cfm

·        Had an Open Circle lesson to talk about giving compliments and nonverbal signals

·        Learned a version of Old MacDonald to help us with our vowel sounds

o   Old MacDonald had a farm.

a-e-i-o-u

On that farm he had a cat.

a-a-a-a-a

On that farm he had a hen.

e-e-e-e-e

On that farm he had a pig.

i-i-i-i-i

On that farm he had a dog.

o-o-o-o-o

On that farm he had a duck.

u-u-u-u-u

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week in Fundations we will be focusing on the uppercase letters I, J, K, L, M, N, O, and P.  Our sight words will be ‘see,’ ‘and,’ ‘are,’ and ‘look’.

Have a great long weekend! Go Patriots!

Miss Walsh