Current Focus:

• Letter Recognition, Writing, and Sound: Review sounds: A-K, Writing: H-K
• Happily Ever After unit story: The Elves and the Shoemaker
• Vocabulary:
• 12 months in a year 
• 7 days of the week 
• Counting to 20
• Number recognition, correct order & writing: 1-7
• Writing our names correctly with both capital and lowercase letters
• Fine motor skills:
  • Cutting (Can only be used when teachers or adults instruct and supervise, thumb in the small hole/fingers in the larger hole, small cuts, don't close the scissors all the way (almost close, then open and slide forward), cut away from the body and remember "thumbs up!" don't cut upside down) 
  • Using a glue stick
  • Coloring - Focusing on coloring different parts of a picture different colors, color inside the outer edge carefully and slowly, then color the center area quicker with larger motions.
  • Folding paper 

Review Skills:

• Always start letters at the top song 
• Letter Recognition, Writing, and Sound: A (two sounds: Long A & Short A), B, C (two sounds: Hard C & Soft C), D, E (two sounds Short E & Long E), F, G (two sounds Soft G & Hard G), H, I (two sounds: Long I & Short I), J, K
• Vocabulay: Red, Dot, Line, Underline, Across, Same, Different, Similar, Over, Under, Blue, in, on, around, circle, round, yellow
• Be a "Super Listener" 1. ears are listening 2. eyes are on the speaker 3. bodies are still 4. mouths are silent