Monday, May 31, 2010

5/30 Sunday

We are working on completing unit 2 of Phonics Level K.


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See you tomorrow!


Love,
Miss Jessica

5/27 Thursday

There are no English classes today due to Open Day 2.


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Have a great weekend!  See you Sunday!


Love,
Miss Jessica

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

5/26 Wednesday

TODAY
* We continued our Xx letter study.


These words end with the letter Xx:
1. fox
2. box
3. ax
4. six


These words do not end with Xx:
1. hen
2. popcorn
3. vase
4. pot
5. cane
6. violin
7. pen


* We began our Yy letter study.


These words begin with Yy:
1. yo-yo
2. yarn
3. yard
4. yawn


These words do not begin with Yy:
1. penny
2. fox


* We completed these pages:
Phonics Level K pages 155 and 156










HOMEWORK
* Read and spell the words above that do and do not end with Xx.


* Read and spell the words above that do and do not begin with Yy.


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Love you!


Miss Jessica

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

5/25 Tuesday

TODAY
* We finished reading See Me Write!.


* We began our Xx letter study.


These words end with x:
1. fox
2. box
3. ax
4. six


These words do not end with x:
1. hen
2. popcorn
3. vase
4. pot
5. cane


* We completed these pages:
Phonics Level K 151, 152 and 153










HOMEWORK
* Read See Me Write!.


* Read and spell the words above that do and do not end with x.


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See you tomorrow!


Love,
Miss Jessica

Monday, May 24, 2010

5/24 Monday

TODAY
* We practiced these 4 words:
do
it
like
see


We worked on them in these 8 sentences:
1. I like to fish.
2. I do it at the lake.
3. It is fun to do.
4. See my fish!
5. I see a paintbrush.
6. It has paint on it.
7. I know what to do.
8. I like to paint.


* We read the book See Me Write!.  These are the words:
See Me Write!
See me write.
I do it on the card.
I do it on the cake.
I like to write.


* We completed these pages:
Phonics Level K pages 149 and 150










HOMEWORK
* Read and spell the 4 words above and read the 8 sentences above with those words.


* Read See Me Write!.


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See you tomorrow!


Love,
Miss Jessica

Sunday, May 23, 2010

5/23 Sunday

TODAY
* We finished our Qq letter study!


* We finished our Vv letter study!


* We finished our review of the letters Pp, Qq and Vv.


* We completed these pages:
Phonics Level K pages 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147 and 148


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See you tomorrow!


Love,
Miss Jessica

Saturday, May 22, 2010

5/20 Thursday

TODAY
* We read Jog, Frog, Jog and Tadpole to Frog.


* We took our spelling test.  Our 2 challenge words were see and sees.


* We continued out Qq letter study.


These words begin with Qq:
1. queen
2. quilt
3. question mark
4. quiet
5. quarter


These words do not begin with Qq:
1. rocket
2. pony
3. cat
4. balloon
5. milk
6. dog
7. heart
8. puppet
9. rainbow


* We began our Vv letter study.


These words begin with Vv:
1. violin
2. vase
3. van
4. vacuum
5. vegetables
6. valentine
7. vest
8. vine


These words do not begin with Vv:
1. popcorn
2. queen
3. question mark
4. parrot
5. teeth
6. pencil


* We reviewed the letters Pp, Qq and Vv with these words:
Pp:
1. penny
2. pony
3. puppy
4. pillow


Qq:
1. quiet
2. question mark
3. queen
4. quilt


Vv:
1. violin
2. valentine
3. vine
4. vegetables


* We worked on the family words father, mother, brother and sister.


* We completed these pages:
Phonics Level K page 135, 137, 138, 139 and 141
Let's Go 1 Workbook pages 27 and 28










HOMEWORK
* Read Jog, Frog, Jog.


* Read Tadpole to Frog.


* Read and spell the words above that do and do not begin with Qq.


* Read and spell the words above that do and do not begin with Vv.


* Read and spell the Pp, Qq and Vv review words.


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Have a great weekend!  See you Sunday!


Love,
Miss Jessica

5/19 Wednesday

There are no English classes today.  Our spelling test will be tomorrow.


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See you tomorrow!


Love,
Miss Jessica

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

5/18 Tuesday

TODAY
* We finished our Pp letter study!


* We read Jog, Frog, Jog.


* We read Tadpole to Frog and we used our words to tell Miss Jessica what the story tells us about tadpoles and frogs.


* We sorted our spelling words by the number of letters in each word and practiced using them in sentences.


* We began our Qq letter study.


These words begin with Qq:
1. queen
2. quilt
3. question mark
4. quiet


These words do not begin with Qq:
1. rocket
2. pony
3. cat
4. milk
5. dog
6. heart


* We practiced these questions and answers:
What are these?
They are gray markers.
How many gray markers?
Five gray markers.


* We worked with these 4 questions and answers:
1. What color are these?  They are orange.  They are orange pencils.
2. What color are these?  They are brown.  They are brown books.
3. What color are these?  They are yellow rulers.
4. What color are these?  They are pink.  They are pink erasers.


* We completed this page:
Phonics Level K page 134










HOMEWORK
* Read Jog, Frog, Jog.


* Read Tadpole to Frog.


* Complete your spelling homework and return it to school tomorrow.  Our spelling test will be Thursday!


* Read and spell the words above that do and do not begin with Qq.


* Read the 4 questions and answers above.


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See you tomorrow!


Love,
Miss Jessica

Monday, May 17, 2010

5/17 Monday


TODAY

* We read "Jog, Frog, Jog" and "Tadpole to Frog". We used the stories to practice our spelling words.


* We practiced using our spelling words in sentences.  


* We continued our Pp letter study.


These words begin with Pp:
1. pig
2. pencil
3. pin
4. pillow
5. pie
6. pan
7. penny
8. pretzel
9. popcorn
10. pot
11. pen
12. pony
13. puppy


These words do not begin with Pp:
1. cow
2. watch
3. rake
4. cat
5. mouse
6. scissors
7. windmill
8. robot


* We practiced answering the question "What color are these?" with these 7 answers:
1. They're pink circles.
2. They're yellow diamonds.
3. They're blue triangles.
4. They're red squares.
5. They're purple rectangles.
6. They're orange stars.
7. They're green ovals.

* We practiced the song "What's This?".  These are the words:
What's this?
It's a blue CD.
What's this?
It's a red CD.
What are these?
They're green CDs.
How many CDs?
Ten!


* We completed these pages:
Phonics Level K pages 132 and 133






HOMEWORK
* Read "Jog, Frog, Jog" and "Tadpole to Frog".


* Complete your spelling words homework and return it to school Tuesday.  Our spelling test will be Thursday!


* Read and spell the words above that do and do not begin with Pp.


* Read the "What color are these?" questions and answers above.


* Read the words to the song "What's This?" above.


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See you tomorrow!


Love,
Miss Jessica




Sunday, May 16, 2010

5/16 Sunday






TODAY
* We finished our Rr letter study!

* We finished our review of the letters Cc, Rr and Ww.

* We added these words to our alphabet word wall:
1. away
2. does
3. may
4. play
5. they
6. today

* We read Jog, Frog, Jog and Tadpole to Frog.  We found our spelling words in the stories.

* These are this week's 10 spelling words:
1. into
2. here
3. jump
4. come
5. some
6. dog
7. fog
8. frog
9. jog
10. log

* We began our Pp letter study.

These words begin with Pp:
1. pig
2. pencil
3. pin
4. pillow
5. pie
6. pan

These words do not begin with Pp:
1. cow
2. watch

* We completed these pages:
Phonics Level K pages 125, 126, 128, 129 and 131
Let's Go 1 Workbook page 26



HOMEWORK
* Read Jog, Frog, Jog.

* Read Tadpole to Frog.

* Complete your spelling words homework paper and return it to school Monday.  Our spelling test will be Thursday!

* Read and spell the words above that do and do not begin with Pp.

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See you tomorrow!

Love,
Miss Jessica

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

5/12 Wednesday

TODAY
* We read Jog, Frog, Jog.


* We read Tadpole to Frog.  We focused on these words ending in -s:
1. eggs
2. legs
3. gets
4. does
5. tadpoles
6. frogs


* We continued our Rr letter study.


These words begin with Rr:
1. rabbit
2. ring
3. rug
4. robot
5. ribbon
6. rain
7. rocket
8. rooster
9. rainbow
10. rake
11. road
12. roof
13. rope
14. rock
15. ruler


These words do not begin with Rr:
1. comb
2. window
3. camel
4. duck
5. lion


* We reviewed the letters Dd, Ee and Ff.


* We read these sentences and drew pictures to go with them:
1. What's this?  It is a chair.


2. What are these?  They are crayons.


* We reviewed the letters Cc, Rr and Ww and these words:
Cc:
1. cane
2. carrot
3. coat
4. comb


Rr:
1. ring
2. rope
3. robot
4. rake


Ww:
1. wagon
2. watermelon
3. watch
4. wig


* We completed this page:
Phonics Level K page 127








HOMEWORK
* Read Jog, Frog, Jog.


* Read Tadpole to Frog and read and spell the words ending in -s above.


* Read and spell the words above that do and do not begin with Rr.


* Read and spell the words beginning with Cc, Rr and Ww above.


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There are no English classes tomorrow because of Open Day.


Love,
Miss Jessica