First Grade

Reading and Spelling for the next four weeks:

Week of 3/19:  A Friend for Little Bear             cool, fool, moon, roof, soon, zoo, called, friend, only, these, pulled

Week of 3/26:  New Shoes for Silvia                        bark, car, dark, park, part, star, every, morning, once, for, took

Week of 4/2:  The Story of a Blue Bird           bird, burn, first, girl, hurt, save, brother, from, mother, sister, walked 

Week of 4/9:  Young Amelia Earhart       boys, mouse, noise, sound, town, toy, father, horse, people, should, woman

(For any sight words that were on a previous week's spelling test, the expectation of the children to spell those words correctly in their writing is high.  Please continue to review these three in particular, as they are not spelled as they sound.)

Here is a list of all previously coverd sight words:

one, likes, give, they, what, your, does, there, could, want, very, two, put, away, about, again, around, their, would, any, where, know, why, always, blue, were, who, because, buy, some, work, carry, done, live, four, many, right, high, eyes, gone, head, all, friend, once, walked, people, should

Skills:

Reading and Language: 

Please refer to the flow chart and or the list of questions to review to address the majority of skills we have covered so far. 

4th Nine weeks Skills:

1.  Pronouns (personal and possessive)

2.  Identify reasons author gives to support points in a text

3.  Decoding two syllable words

4.  Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text

5.  Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing

6.  Read a MINIMUM of 60 words per minute

7.  Use context clues (picture and sentence level) to identify meaning and self correct

8.  Spell phonetically correct and spell irregularly spelled words correctly

9.  Write informational, explanatory, and opinion pieces with appropriate opening and closing.

10.  Spell untaught words correctly pulling from knowledge of blends and digraphs

11.  Use affixes to define words

Math:

Be mindful of car line pick-up and drop-off rules and courtyard pick-up in the afternoons

Please adhere to the dress code.

Be careful of tardies!!! and early check outs!!!

 Fry words are a requirement!!!  They are part of our report card.  Please help your child read these!