Handwriting:  This week we focused on the capital letters Y and Z.  Next week we will begin working on lowercase letters.

Phonics:  We continue to work on blending together onsets and rimes.  The onset is the beginning sound (or beginning blend) and the rime is everything that comes after the onset.  We practice blending onsets and rimes together by “waterfalling” the words.  We point to our heads when we say the onset and point to our shoulders when we say the rime.  Then, we “waterfall” the word together by using our hands to pretend that water is falling over our heads and down to our shoulders.  Thank you for doing this with your child on the homework each week!!

Reading Workshop: This week we finished making our last letter booklet.  We had all 26 of our letter booklets in our book tubs!  We took them out on Friday and brought them home.  Now we have more room for our new sight word books!  We have learned these words so far: a, I, see, & my.

Math: In math this week we focused on the number 10.  We also played math games to help us review counting, number recognition, and patterns.

Social/Emotional:  This week our puppets Matt and Molly helped us learn about feeling frustrated.  We learned that when we are feeling frustrated we can calm down by putting our hands on our tummy and taking a deep breath.  We know that we can also ask for help.

Literacy Groups: Each afternoon we have literacy groups.  We break up into small groups and work on various literacy activities.  Mrs. Bussa, Mrs. Heckel, and Mrs. Nibbelink are the para-pros who come to help lead the groups.  We have parent helpers who come on Mondays and Fridays to help with literacy groups too.