Grade One Home-School Link for the Week of November 28th
HOMEWORK
Reading:
“Good-fit” take- home books
Poem/Story/Song duo-tang
Keep reviewing sight words and sound teams until mastered
LIBRARY-return books by Wednesday
LITERACY FOCUS
· Sound teams : sh, ch, th, wh, qu, ck, ai/ay, oa/oa, ie, or, a_e u_e i__e o__e
er, ir, ur
Introducing sound team: OO (two sounds…..good……moon)
· Reading strategies (please remind your child to refer to the strategy chart and use variety of strategies when figuring out unknown words)
· Sight/Word wall words:
at, and, a, in, is, it, I , like, me of, school, that, the, to, was, went, play
friend, with, this, have, little, day, away, say, are, go, up, us, we, like ,said,
going, she, on, my, came, make, here, see, what, very, no, an or, before,
for, put, all, her, after, over, mother, father, look, too, can, saw, asked
WRITING:
· Small moment stories (3 parts- what happened first, next, and finally)
· Ending stories with a feeling.
· Editing/fixing-up writing pieces. ( punctuation, capitals, spelling)
· Writing complete sentences.
MATH FOCUS
· Number sequence 1-20, 20-50 (forwards, backwards, between two numbers)
· Counting by 5’s, 10’s to 50-100
· Naming numbers one/two more, one/two less to 20
· Number recognition 1--50
· Number formation 1-50
· Counting by twos to 20
· Representing/describing numbers 11-20
· Part-part-whole-number combinations 1-20
· Comparing sets to 20, using referents and one to one matching
· Estimating quantities up to 10 then 20
· Record equalities using an equal sign
PLEASE PRACTICE AND REVIEW IF NEEDED:
· ****High Frequency Sight Words –Keep reviewing until mastered. If your child can read the words with ease, have them practice spelling/create sentences in their practice book.
· Practice printing sentences using the new sight words. Make sure they include a capital for the beginning of the sentence, pronoun I and names as well as punctuation.
· Play a memory matching game, write words on a tic-tac-toe board or play “go fish” with word cards.
· Reading/spelling words with OO
spoon noon balloon moon loon hoop rooster root
cook book look hood good foot wood brook
· Count by twos to 20
· Use counters show different combinations for a numbers up to 10 ( 8 can be 4,4 5,3, 7,1 6,2)
· Review number words: zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
NOVEMBER:
30th Home and School-Christmas Basket Item-Gift Card Tree
DECEMBER:
8TH Christmas dinner for families-see school home page for info
Please buy the tickets ahead of time from the cafeteria. I will keep the ticket(s) for you.
If your child is not having the turkey dinner, they will have their lunch in the classroom.
16th Last day for the cafeteria.
16th Christmas concert –9:00 and 11:00 (Tuesday, Dec.20-storm date)
23rd Half day of school
It was nice to meet with you during Parent-Teacher Conferences!
Have a great week!