MRS. ANDREA H. DAVIS
Weekly Newsletter
January 22, 2016
THEME: Community
UNIT: Careers
EXTENSIONS: Money
Key Measure: When I grow up, what will I be? I can choose a career to earn money.
LANGUAGE ARTS
PHONEMIC AWARENESS AND PHONICS:
We are focusing on phoneme R in the
beginning and ending positions this week. We went on a word search today finding and
writing five words beginning with letter /r/ and five words ending with letter /r/. Help
your child sound out or read those ten words at home. Decoding new words gets easier
with practice. If your child can easily read the words, have him/her write a sentence using
each word.
SPEAKING: Our classroom word wall is a huge list including every classmate’s first name,
last name, color words, number words, our sight words, days of the week, months of the
year and holidays. Each day two students get to tell the Calendar helper which letter to
read on the word wall. The helper guides the class in reading all the words that begin with
that letter, while holding a long pointer. The students are exposed to the sight words
everyday.
WRITING: The students practiced writing numerals correctly when they wrote the value
of each coin.
LISTENING: At the Listening center, we heard the book, The Rubber Bit Round Up about
letter friend Mr. R inventing rubber bands.
READING: We read and illustrated the book RED to reinforce /r/ sound in the beginning
position and help us recognize color words and rhyming words. See if your child will sing
the song that goes with the story.
SOCIAL STUDIES
The students talked about how they can earn money when they grow up. They drew
pictures of jobs their parents have. They illustrated a book with pictures of what jobs
they want in the future. We noticed that some jobs are harder than others, some jobs
are fun, and some jobs provide lots of money! We talked about the fact that the
President of the United States probably has the most powerful job in the world! He is the
leader of the country. We learned that the President has many jobs and that he’s in
charge of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Marines. We have had 44 Presidents and so
far, they have all have been men.
MATH
We noticed that U.S. coins have Presidents on them. We’ve had several work time
activities involving coin stamping, penny flipping, estimating and counting, as well as coin
graphing and sorting. Our awesome group game, Circle Countdown, is played several times a
week. Ask your child how many times s/he has been the last one standing in this game.
SCIENCE
We learned that coins are made in a factory called a mint. Coins made in the Denver Mint
have a little D on them. Coins made in the San Francisco mint have a little S. Coins made
in the Philadelphia Mint have no special mark.
VISUAL:
ART
We will send our future career drawings home in a book for all to see.
MUSICAL: We sang some songs for letter R this week such as, "Rags", "Robin in the
Rain", "Riding' up and down in my little red wagon," and "Singing in the Rain."
MOVEMENT: Everyday we put on music that gets us moving around the room in a fun way.
We have one song that tells the children how to move just by listening to the music. It’s
funny to get to crawl, run and fly in the classroom! Once we get those wiggles out, we are
more attentive listeners.
**Wear your class shirt on Fridays!!
FYI
** LATE START Thursday, Jan 28 – School starts at 10:40 a.m.
**Thursday Reader – Feb 4 – Ashley Lamb – Come at 8:30 - bring 3-4 books from home.
**Friday morning, Feb 5 - Dynamic Dads! Dads and Granddads are welcome – done by 9.
**Thursday Reader – Feb 11 – Donnarae Phillips – Come at 8:30 - bring 3-4 books from
home.
**Thursday, Feb 11 – Class Valentine’s Party @ 10:30-11:15. Families are welcome to come.
We’ll sing songs right at the beginning, so bring your camera. We’ll make Valentine sacks
at school the week before. I’ll send a list of classmates names for help in making
Valentines at home.
**Monday, Feb 15 – No school – Teacher Workday
**LATE START Thursday, Feb 25 – School starts at 10:40 a.m.
**Spring Break is Mar 14 through Mar 18 - No school 
Have a great weekend!
Andrea Davis