Posts: Grade 1 Week at a Glance (Feb. 25-Mar. 1)
2/22/2019 2:59 PM by stacey.waugh
Grade 1 Mrs. Waugh
Week at a Glance (Feb. 25-Mar. 1)
Wednesday Night
– Pack library books to be sent back
Thursday.
Nightly
:
Read good-fit books/Raz-Kids.
Have him/her provide a retell of the main
events in the story.
Practice Sight Words and Sound Teams
Literacy:
Words of the Week:
Please do a big
review of all sight words. If your child has them mastered they can try
spelling them!
Reading: Review
Strategies
Many students are still guessing
unknown words based on the first sound they see (ie; saying “
w
ent” for “
w
hen”). Please review all of the reading strategies your child can
use for unknown words (stretchy snake, chunky monkey, flippy dolphin, etc.). If
you notice your child guessing based on the first sound, have the list of
strategies ready and encourage him/her to sound out carefully.
If your child stalls for too long
trying to solve an unknown word, it can disrupt
fluency
. Therefore it can be helpful to encourage him/her to skip
the word and read on (skippy frog) as the rest of the sentence will often give
him/her clues as to what the unknown word may be!
Sound Team:
Review
Please continue to review all 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.
Word Family:
please continue
to review all word families.
Writing: Details
We are continuing 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 looked at sequencing
words (ie;
first, next, then,
finally
) and how they can be used as “sentence starters” and can be
helpful when trying to organize the details in our stories. We have also
done some procedural writing (how to make a card, how to get ready for
recess, etc.)and these sentence starters are useful in this writing form.
Math: Addition
and breaking numbers into parts
We are
working on the “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!
You can reinforce this concept with blocks/counters.
We also
discovered the “doubles less/minus 1” strategy. For example, if your child
knows 4+4=8, then he/she can easily solve 4+3 because it is just one less!
Knowing
doubles facts “in a snap” can help students solve these “near doubles”
facts much easier.
Practice double facts to 12. (1+1, 2+2…..6+6)
Reminders/Important Dates:
Monday, Feb. 25-
phys. Ed teachers will be taking students
outside for snow shoeing. Please be sure
your child is dressed for the weather.
Feb. 25-March 1:
Winter Week activities
(please refer to the email sent home by the
office as well as the Webpage for all the information).
Wednesday, March 28 –
100th day of school – students are
invited (not obligated) to bring in a collection of 100 small items.
March 4-8
-March break
Thank you for your support!
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