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Grade 1 Mrs. Waugh 

Week at a Glance (April 23-April 26)

Wednesday Night: Pack library books.

Nightly:

• Read good-fit books. Have your child provide a retell of the main events. Also, when your child reads a word containing a sound team point it out to him/her. Try keeping a running list of the sound team words you and your child find in his/her good-fit books to practice reading and spelling at home.

• Practice/review all sight words and Sound Teams. If your child can read all of the sight words, have him/her try spelling them or writing them in a sentence.

• Practice the “no excuse” spelling words for grade 1.   These are the words that your child should be able to spell by the end of grade 1 (see list in communication bag).

Reading .

• Please continue to practice reading/writing the words which were posted last week (if there are any that your child continues to struggle with). Remember to work on eliminating reversals (backward letters), avoiding unnecessary uppercase letters, and having neat printing. The grade two teachers will expect these goals to be met. The following words can be used to practice spelling and reading at home this week:

cooking

shampoo

blame

flipped

opener

bumpy

planter

• In order to meet grade level expectations on the year-end report card, your child must be reading level G books independently, with comprehension and fluency. Once your child reaches a level G/H (or above) in reading, have him/her read some of the book out loud and some of the book in his/her head, and then have him/her do a retell (they tell you about the story they have just read.) It’s important that students understand what they read to themselves, as well as out loud. Guide your child to tell you about the story with all important details.

Writing:  We have been learning and writing about ways to care for our environment.

Math:

• Please continue to practice addition and subtraction facts and strategies with your child, be sure to work with facts to 20.

• Have your child practice counting forwards and backwards between 2 numbers to 50. For example, count from 45-52, from 37-30, etc. If they are doing well extend this to 100.

• Write a number to 50 and have your child tell you what the number is. Extend to 100 after this is mastered.

• Say a number and have your child write it (up to 50). Have your child practice any numbers he/she writes backwards. This can be extended to 100 as well.

• Ask questions such as; What comes before 46? What comes after 47? Etc. What comes before 86? After 62? Etc

_{Reminders/Important Dates:}

_{Monday, April 22 – Easter Monday – No School}

_{Friday, May 3 – Council Day (Professional Learning) for teachers.  No school for students.}

_{Monday, May 13 – NBTA Branch Day – No School for students}

_{Monday, May 20 – Victoria Day – No school}

_{Thank you for your support!}