Tuesday, September 26

 
Tuesday, September 26

Phonics: Sound Wall Review
The children have been introduced to A LOT of consonant and vowel sounds and where/how the sounds are made. Today, we will review all of them with particular focus on producing them in the correct place and manner of articulation.
**We will also practice making letters with slanted and straight lines: Y, Z

Handwriting: ez Across Review
We will review the three ez Across starting points on the handwriting lines.
~ Z and 7 start on the "top line"
~ z on the "middle line"
~ e on the "middle of the downstairs"
 KinderLiteracy
Again, using the story, A Tree for All Seasons, the kids will answer simple recall questions such as: What is the job of an author/illustrator? Is this a fiction or nonfiction book? What is a fact we learned about the seasons? We will clarify the vocabulary words within the story (bare, cozy, bud, collect, chilly).

KinderMath: Unit 2 Sort and Classify

Today's Lesson: Alike and Different 

The kids will work with matching numbers to dots on a cube. They will then work on the math term 'alike' by playing Copy Cat with objects. I will place objects (snap cubes, bears) in a certain arrangement and the kids will copy my arrangement with their objects. Last, the kids will look at a picture on the SmartBoard and tell what they see that is alike or different among the objects.

   Phy Ed today

Bicycle Safety
~The kids will learn about bicycle safety with follow up questions for discussion. 

 I encourage you to view this short video again with your child! 

Bicycle Safety

~If you have a spare yellow apple at home, we could use some for an activity next week.
~Tomorrow is library day. Please have your child return their book if they haven't done so already.
~We are in need of volunteers for the book fair! Sign up here if you can help. Thank you!
How to pronounce the 44 phonemes.
~This will explain how it is done at school and for practice at home. Your child should practice these everyday until all the phonemes are pronounced automatically. Dialect across the nation can affect the way some phonemes are pronounced. The phoneme /r/ presented in this video should be skipped over and modeled by you. Toward the end of the video, the Schwa sound is explained.