February 23rd-27th

February 27, 2015

This week in Fundations we focused on writing words by stretching the sounds we hear and saying the words slow like a turtle.

Our sight words for the week were: do, that, as, has

We finally had a full week of school!  This week at school we:

·        Read My Lucky Day

·        Worked on the numbers 16-18

·        Practiced addition and subtraction word problems

·        Review tally marks

·        Learned about stretching out words like a snake and sounding out words slowly like a turtle

·        Wrote words on whiteboards after saying their sounds slowly

·        Wrote about where we would go after reading Oh The Places You’ll Go

·        Did a snowman science experiment

·        Read lots of books and sentences

·        Learned about Independent Reading! We did 5 whole minutes of quiet independent reading! The students were FANTASTIC!  They are great readers!

·        Made a Dr. Seuss craft

Ask your child what else they learned.  Our sight words next week will be ‘one,’ ‘two,’ ‘three,’ ‘four,’ ‘five,’ and ‘be’.

Enjoy your weekend!

Miss Walsh

 

Feb. 11th - Feb 13th

 

February 13, 2015

This week in Fundations focused on tapping out CVC words and writing the sounds we hear.

Our sight words for the week were: do, that, as, has

Wow I can’t believe we had another short week due to snow!  It may have been short but we were able to celebrate the 100^th day of school and Valentine’s Day.  This week at school we:

·        Read 100 CVC words for the 100^th day of school! They had a lot of patience and did fantastic!

·        Created 100^th day of school glasses

·        Wrote about what they could not do on the first day of school but can do now

·        Fished for numbers and then colored the number in on a hundreds chart

·        Practiced word families

·        Read Rooster’s Off to See the World

·        Graphed candy hearts

·        Colored by sight words

·        Made love bugs

·        Had a OT lesson on how to draw a person

·        Thought about why people write and created a list

·        Decorated Valentine’s bag

·        Gave Valentine’s to our classmates

Ask your child what else they learned.  When we come back from vacation and for the month of March we will be working on writing CVC words in our sentences and independent quiet reading.  Our sight words will be ‘that,’ and ‘do’.

 

Thank you to all of the volunteers who came in this week to help us celebrate!

Have a fantastic vacation! Happy Valentine's Day!

Miss Walsh

February 4th-6th

 

February 5, 2015

This week in Fundations focused on tapping out CVC words.

Our sight words for the week were: they, of, his, you, as, has

We may have had a short week but it was a good one. At school this week we:

·        Practiced the numbers 15-20

·        Individually showed how much we can read

·        Reviewed our middle sounds

·        Practiced reading sentences

·        Started to introduce addition sentences

·        Wrote what we liked about ourselves

·        Practiced counting objects up to 20

·        Further reviewed ten frames

·        Read The Lion and The Mouse

·        Made decomposition kites

·        Wrote about what we like about ourselves

Our awesome Eyeopener segment for Channel 5 aired Thursday morning!

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week in Fundations we will be continue focusing on tapping and writing CVC words.  Our sight words will be ‘that,’ and ‘do’.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Walsh