First Grade Newsletter
Friday, April 25, 2014
This Week Reading and Language Arts:
- Story: Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
- Vowel Sound: Vowel Sound in foot: oo
- Phonics: Diphthongs oi, oy; Suffixes –er, -or
- High Frequency Words: played, never, kinds, heavy, against, instead, among, none, another, goes, today
- Vocabulary Development: slowly, quietly, loudly, softly, gladly, sadly, quickly, neatly,
- Writing: Fairy Tales and Realistic Fiction: Writing with Lots of Detail, Creating Realistic Characters, Writing in Complete Sentences, Combining Sentences
- Story: Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
- Vowel Patterns: Vowel Sound in ball: aw, au; Syllable Patterns
- Phonics: r-controlled Vowel ar; Prefixes un-, re-; Long o: o; Long i: i
- High Frequency Words: get, well, went, who, answered, learn, build, poor, carry, science, different, through, early
- Vocabulary Development: Contractions: I’m, let’s, haven’t, it’s, didn’t, hasn’t, doesn’t, aren’t
- Writing: Fairy Tales and Realistic Fiction: Revising by Adding More Details, Checking for Meaning, Editing and Publishing
- Unit 8 entitled, “Blocks and Building”
- Describing and Comparing 3-D Shapes
- Build a Wall
- Matching Blocks to Pictures
- Vocabulary: 3-D Geometry, cube, square, face, corner, vertex, triangle, triangular prism, footprint, rectangular prism
Remember: Our field trip is next Thursday, May 3. Please be sure to pack your child a lunch if that is what you requested. Plus, please be sure your child has appropriate clothes for the day. We will be eating lunch at Irvine Park and visiting the animals!!! We are SO excited!!!