First Grade Newsletter
Friday, October 19th, 2018
This Week Reading and Language Arts:
- Story: Shadows
- Vowel Sound: short e
- Phonics: Initial Consonant Blends
- High Frequency Words: and, makes, on, when, saw, small, tree, your
- Vocabulary Development: size words: huge, tiny, short, large, big, little, tall, small
- Writing: Personal Narratives and Revising and Editing
- Story: Eat Your Vegetables
- Vowel Sound: Short u
- Phonics: Final Consonant Blends
- High Frequency Words: eat, like, they, home, into, many, them
- Vocabulary Development: vegetable words: carrot, corn, beans, peas, potato, beet, lettuce, squash
- Identifying and Sorting Shapes
- Unit 3 “How Many of Each? How Many in All?
- Counting On
- Build It 2
- Revisiting Subtraction Games
- Vocabulary Words: add, combine, total, sum, counted on, zero, equals, plus, equation, subtract, take away, minus, counting back, counted back
After school parents please read the paper books with your child at home even though he/she goes to after school. The strategies that we teach for the week are reinforced in those books. It is crucial to your child’s reading development that he/she learns those phonics skills.
Thank you,
Ms. Amdahl and Mrs. Alix
