Posts: Grade 1 Week at a Glance

3/15/2019 3:26 PM by stacey.waugh


 



Grade 1 Mrs. Waugh 



 



Week at a Glance (March 18-March 22)



 



 



 



 


 



Wednesday Night – Pack library books to be sent back Thursday. 



 



 



 



Nightly:



 



Read good-fit books/Raz-Kids.


Have your child provide a retell of
the main events in the story.


Practice Sight Words and Sound Teams


 


 



Literacy:



 



Words of the Week:  his, so, then, when  (please highlight on your high-frequency word list)



 



Reading: Review
Skippy
Frog



 



When having difficulty sounding out
words, encourage your child to skip the word and read on. Then he/she can “hop
back” and try it again, as the rest of the sentence might have clues as to what
the unknown word could be.


 



 



Sound Teams: aw & igh (add
these to your sound team sheet)



 



We are learning that aw makes the sound as in paw, and igh makes the long i sound as in sight. Have your child practice reading words with these two sound
teams such as the following:



 



law, saw, awful, hawk, raw, draw,
crawl, claw


light, night, fight, sigh, high,
right, tight, might



 



 



 



Word Family: please continue
to review all word families.



 



 



 



Writing: 



 


 
We will continue to talk about sentence starters. Often times,
students tend to use the same words over and over when beginning sentences
(ie; “I went to the mall. I had fun. I bought a toy. Etc.) We
brainstormed a list of “Sentence Starters” to put up in the classroom for
student use during Writer’s Workshop. Using sequencing words such as;
first, next, then, after that, finally, etc., can make help make our
writing more fluent.
 


 


 
We will be talking about writing a lead/introduction (the first
sentence of a story). The job of a lead is to introduce what your story is
about and to “hook” the reader so they will WANT to read your story.)
 
One strategy we will work on is to begin a story with a question.
For example, instead of “I swam with dolphins” try
beginning with a question such as, “Did you ever go swimming with
dolphins?”    A question lead
for a story about making cookies might begin with
 
“Have you ever tasted
delicious chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven?”
 


 



 


 


 
We will also be talking about starting our stories with dialogue.
For example, rather than beginning a story by saying I went skating”, try
using dialogue -  “Do
you want to go skating?” asked
Mom.
 


 


 
We are also looking again at descriptive sentences. Rather than
saying “I bought a new shirt.”, try, “I bought a new blue shirt with red
stripes.”
 


 



 



 



Math:



 



We are working on
subtraction. You can have your child practice at home by:



 



Tell your child to use the numbers 8 and 5 to tell you
a subtraction story. For example: “There are 8 ducks in a pond. 5 swim away.
How many ducks are left in the pond?” (have him/her use counters or draw a
picture to show how he/she solves the problem). Do several examples using
different numbers.


Review the order of numbers. In addition order does not matter. For example, 2+6
is the same as 6+2. However, when subtracting you need to start with the greater number.


Tell your child a math story involving subtraction.
For example, “There were 7 people skating and 2 got cold so they went home. How
many people are left?”


Try number stories that involve both addition and
subtraction: There were 5 dogs playing, 1
more joined them, 2 went home, and 1 ran away. How many dogs are there now?


You can also visit the following websites to play subtraction
games at home



 



http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/ttt.cgi?A1=s&A2=1&A3=0 



 



http://www.abcya.com/subtraction_game.htm



 



Reminders/Important Dates:



 



 



 



March 19 – Year book order
forms due



 



March 22 – Full Day
Professional

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