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Grade 1 Week at a Glance (May 20-24)

Wednesday Night: Pack library books to be brought back Thursday.

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. In order to be meeting grade level reading expectations, students must be reading level G books independently, fluently, and with good comprehension by the end of June.

• Practice 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.

• The sight words for grade 1 will be their no excuse spelling words in grade 2. So, they could get a head start!

Reading: Monitoring and Fixing-up

• This week, we will focus on self-monitoring and “fixing-up” when reading. If something doesn’t sound or look right, it’s important to back-up, reread, and fix our mistake!

Writing: Non-fiction (Report)

Students will continue to explore non-fiction writing.  The students will be researching information about an animal of their choice and writing a report.

Math: Numbers to 100 & measurement

• Practice facts and strategies.

  As necessary:

• Work on number reversals/formation.

• Work on 100 chart activities from last week.

• Work on before/after…..especially when it involves a new decade, for example after 49, after 89, before 60, before 40 etc.

• We will start a new Measurement unit in which we will be describing and comparing the length, height, and mass of objects. Have your child use words like taller/shorter/ longer/ lighter/heavier to describe and compare various objects around the house.

• Choose an object at home (pencil, paper clip, tissue box, etc.) and have your child find something that is longer than that object, shorter than the object, and about the same length/height.

• Give your child 3 objects and have him/her order them from shortest to tallest. Then try 3 more objects and order them from tallest to shortest.

   

   

Reminders/Important Dates:

Monday, May 20 – Victoria Day – No school

Thursday, June 6 – Showcase/School Picnic 11:00-1:00 (more info. to follow).

June 13 – K-2 Field Day (please be sure your child is dressed for the weather and has appropriate outdoor footwear for running, jumping etc…)

June 21 – Last day of school for students

Thank you for your support!