A Peek at the Week

Letter Xx and its sound (box, fox)

Numerals 11-16 (counting, writing, making sets)

Number word "seven"

Coin values

Abraham Lincoln, George Washington

National symbols

New Words

seven

look

Poems or Songs

SEVEN Number Word Song

(Jingle Bells tune)

Seven, seven, seven,

Seven, seven, seven.

S - E - V - E - N.

A week's seven days.

Seven lunch trays.

That is number seven.

Alphabet Sound Chant for Letter X

X-ray, x-ray, x, x, x.
(Cross two index fingers over each other to make an X)

The X sound combines the K and S sounds--as in box.

From the

Teacher's Desk

    No Show and Tell this week.  A homework paper will come home Thursday night and is due on Friday.

    Thank you for your generosity in providing goodies for our Valentine Party! The children had a wonderful time opening Valentines and thanking their friends for them. I appreciated Jazlyn's and Steven's Moms help at the party and Isabel's Mom's help with the planning. The kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves!

    Woo-hoo, we raised $506.00 from our Valentine Grams, just enough to pay for the charter bus for our Cleveland Zoo Field Trip. Thanks to everyone who supported our sale by purchasing Valentine Grams and to all of the Moms who helped with the sales.

    I notice the children aren't doing as well with the short O sound (as in otter) or the O word families (_ot, _op, _ox). Part of this is due to missing so much school due to snow/cold days and not having as much practice time working on these skills. Please help to reinforce this at home by reading the sentence practice pages that will be sent home this week.

Book of

the Week

The Fox and the Little Red Hen

Please have your child write several sentences at home in preparation for our writing test! Concentrate on spacing between words and periods at the end of sentences.

Special

Thanks

We appreciated the snacks from Trystan and Steven this week.

Thanks to Isabel's Mom, Mrs. Pettit, and Mrs. Jensen for working everyday to make our Valentine Gram sale such a success!