One of our sight words this week was can. If we can read "can" we can rhyme and read other words with "an" inside them!These video links were fun ways to practice this:Sesame Street "The Golden "an":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbJecXQ1HgkPuppets Betty Lou and Charlie sing their "an" song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-scweEW9riA

In our You and Your World curriculum we have been exploring how we are all unique. We watched Grover tell us too. Check out this video for a uplifting message:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gms-Yk7mzv4 

We are learning trickier sight words! Come, comes, and said don't "play fair" - we just need to "get our mouth ready" and remember them! Here are some links that may help:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6J379_UzEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We have started our geometry and measurement unit. First up? 3D objects!We are talking about and looking at the sides, edges, corners, etc. of 3D shapes and finding lots of classroom objects that are similar. We have been using words like straight, curved, point, top, corners, edges, hollow, solid, roll and flat in order to play I spy and to explain sorting rules. We have noticed that some 3D shapes have triangles, rectangles, circles and squares on their sides! Can your child point out the cylinders, cones, cubes and rectangular prisms? Wow!Here are some videos that help reinforce shape concepts and vocabulary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYaQoBilylshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Friday finished off our week of letter and sound review - the children didn't forget any over the Christmas break! We had a busy day eating alphabet noodles (who knew words could taste so good!), finding the whole alphabet on our clothing and fixing alphabet puzzles while we reinforced alphabetical order. Thank you parents for sending the children with lots of letters on their clothing! Here are some links to videos that entertained (and educated) us this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcq0Mjswdhc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU4FKj0OmWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1H-LTV4pkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKdUpJQBTY

Xavier Fox is our Zoophonics animal for the letter X. We could not find many words that start with X, but we could write some with X at the end! Ask your child to spell fox, box, fix, six, ax, and ox - I bet they can do it! Challenge them with the word EXIT. We did watch a cool video of a fox pouncing on its prey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP15zlyra3c  And some silly foxes jumping on a trampoline: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xJtH6UcQY  This man on Sesame Street had the same problem we did -finding words that start with x: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rOUYaQ6a0g  On Monday we will read Rosie's Walk. I want the children to notice that the fox is very sly and always wants to eat things like chickens and gingerbread!    

Now Mrs. Hendry would never encourage anyone to kick Santa but that Mrs. Holmes showed her this cool site where you can help the reindeer get Santa in the chimney. Have fun! http://www.coolmath-games.com/holiday-Christmas-games-puzzles/super-sant...