First Grade Newsletter

Friday, April 21, 2017
This Week Reading and Language Arts:

• Story: Road Builders
• Vowel Sound: ow, ou
• Phonics: r-Controlled Vowel ir, er,; Syllables
• High Frequency Words: bring, going, take, door, loved, should, wood
• Vocabulary Development: Homographs: tear, ring, sink, fan, last, pen, duck
• Writing: Short Reports

Next Week Language Arts:

• Story: Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
• Vowel Patterns: 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: Friendly Letter/Common Nouns

Next Week Math:

• Describing and comparing 3-D shapes
• Build a Wall
• Matching Blocks to Pictures
• Blocks in a Sock
• Vocabulary Words: 3-D geometry, cube, square, face, corner, vertex, triangle, triangular prism, footprint

Ms. Amdahl