It's Teacher Eddie here. I wanted to tell you about what we studied during the month of January 2015. Our theme for the month of January was 'Jobs People Do'. The students learned a large number of jobs, and three sentence patterns to talk about them. You can hear these patterns in the videos we have made. During this month we spent a lot of time on phonics. I really want to help the students improve in this area, and get better at reading. We completed our workbook 'Step Into Phonics 4' during the month, and also spent a lot of time reviewing a mixture of short and long vowel sounds. You can also see this in the videos we have made. Now that the book has been finished, we will be doing worksheets to review all that we have learned so far. Some of these have been sent home in the communication books to show you.
We also spent a good amount of time reading our small phonics readers together this month. This month's book was book 10, called 'Trish and Chad'. This book focused on the consonant diagraphs th, sh and ch. Throughout this book there was also a lot of short and long vowel practice. We also spent time practicing sight words, and you can see some of these in the videos we have made. During science we studied the continents on Earth, and located Taiwan and other places on a world map. We completed our math books during the month too, and now the students have a good grasp of numbers up to 20. We will continue our math practice with worksheets during the month of February.
I hope you're pleased with the progress of your children. It is a pleasure to teach them, and we have a lot of fun together. I will continue to send some work home in their communication books, and sometimes ask them to do phonics reading at home.
Thanks,
Teacher Eddie
Wendy
Tyler
Jerry
Jenny
Howard
