Week of February 4th - February 8th, 2013

This week we will continue to work with word families. We will be focusing on the –at, -an, and –og family. We will be singing songs, and playing different kinds of games to make up words with these word families.

Children first learn to read the Word Family and then they learn to blend consonants to the beginning of each Word Family/Word Ending.  By learning to read each Word Family one at a time children learn to recognize various Word Family Endings and they learn to brake unknown words into parts in order to decode unfamiliar words in text.

This week we will begin to study the parts of our body. We are going to be learning about some of our internal body organs  and their function such as the heart, brain, lungs, and liver. Some of our vocabulary words will also include head, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, elbow, legs, and arms.

Some of the books we are going to be reading this week are the following:

For the next couple of weeks we are going to be focusing on the following Fry Words:

but, not, what, all, we

Please practice these words daily at home with your children. One fun game that you may want to try at home is the following:

Concentration Game: Sight word concentration cards can easily be made using index cards. Simply write each word on two cards, shuffle and lay face down to play.

We invite you to try the following websites with your kids at home. They have fun games for the children to practice the different skills we are learning in school.

• http://www.fun4thebrain.com/English/popcornWords.html
• www.cookie.com

FOR SALE! - VALENTINE’S DAY SALE: Roses for Lps 30. Place the order(s) with the Seniors by Tuesday, February 5. Orders received later than that day, will not be registered. Forms were sent home with students last Thursday.

MINUTA SALE this Friday, February 8 for the ABSH festival. L25 each.