Grade One Home-School Link – Week of February 27th
HOMEWORK
Reading:
“Good-fit” take- home books
Sound Teams- A list of words containing sound teams will be sent home in your child’s communication bag. Please have your child practice reading/spelling these words and finding the sound teams he/she knows inside each word. You can play a game of “3 in a row” with your child by putting this list into a page protector. Player one reads a word and crosses it out with his/her white board marker, player two then takes a turn. Continue until someone has crossed out 3 words in a row! You can use two coloured bingo chips instead of putting it into a plastic page protector.
Poem/Story/Song duo-tang
****Extra Practice- see bottom of page*****
LIBRARY-return books by Wednesday; students are not taking books out this week.
LITERACY FOCUS
READING:
-Practice sound teams –reading words with 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, oo, ue., ou/ow, ar, oi, oy, aw
-Blends
-Strengthening comprehension- Including who, what, where, when,
why when retelling stories we read
- Strengthening Accuracy – “Cross Checking” words when reading….Does that look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
-Review reading strategies---use a variety of strategies to create meaning
-Reading and spelling 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, were, by, back, did, big, be, him, not, will, about, how, now, our, I’m, am, come, some, if, should, would, could , don’t, their, there, from, get, had, has, as, because, man, into, do, just, one, you
WRITING
We continue to talk about adding details to our stories. Students are working on choosing a small moment and adding organized details with a beginning, middle and ending. Sentences should be becoming more descriptive. For example, instead of “I saw a dog”, students should now be writing “I saw a big brown dog and he was wagging his tail.” The more interesting details (descriptions, feelings, etc.) the better!
We’ve also been looking at sequencing words: first, next, then, finally. They can be used as “sentence starters” and can be helpful when trying to organize the details in stories. We have done some procedural writing (how to make a card/snowman) using these sentence starters.
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MATH FOCUS
-Practice adding zero, one, and two to a number up to 20
-Doubles to 12 ( 1,1 2,2 3,3 4,4 5,5 6,6
-“Doubles plus 1” strategy. For example, if your child knows 4+4=8, then he/she can easily solve 4+5 because it is just one more! Knowing doubles facts “in a snap” can help students solve these “near doubles” facts much easier.
PLEASE REVIEW AND PRACTICE
-Counting backwards from 50-1 and between two given numbers
-****High Frequency Sight Words****
-Please keep reviewing until mastered. If your child can read the words with ease, have them practice spelling/create sentences in their practice book.
-Practice reading words with blends:
stop still steer street stay sleep slip slug sling
-Practice printing sentences using the new sight words. Make sure they include capitals and punctuation. Have them reread and edit on their own.
-Review number words:
zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
then on to……eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty
-Adding one, two, three to a number up to 20.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
FEBRUARY:
28th School Spirit Day- Wear blue/yellow
March
1st 100th day of school. Bring a collection of 100 items.
2nd Outdoor activities- the students will need their snow pants etc.
3rd Silly Sock Day/Sock Hop in the gym with a real DJ!
4th-12th March Break---have a great one!