First Grade Newsletter
SCHOOL IS CLOSED UNTIL APRIL 6TH
I know that several of you may be looking for things to do at home. Please know that you have access to Reflex, IXL, Prodigy, and Spelling City as usual. If you are looking for additional things we recommend having your student write each day about what they did. ABC mouse has a free 30 day trial. For fun Mo Willems has a new YouTube series called Lunch Doodles with Mo. Feel free to reach out to your students teacher via Bloomz with any other questions.
Thanks,
Ms. Sherwood, Mrs. Sattre, Mrs. Sherrill
Schedule
Lunch is as follows:
Mrs. Sherrill 12:25-1:00
Ms. Sherwood 12:30-1:05
Mrs. Sattre 12:35-1:10
ELA
Unit 4 Now till April 3rd
- Currently, the student's are working on long vowel sounds, such as..
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness:
-bossy E: (cape, ripe, rude, drove)
- closed and open vowels: An open syllable occurs when a vowel is at the end of the syllable, resulting in the long vowel sound, e.g. pa/per, e/ven, o/pen, go & we. ... Whereas a closed syllable occurs when a syllable ends with a consonant, resulting in a short vowel sound, e.g., cat, sit, got & wet. The consonant closes these words.
- vowel teams: long a: rain, stay, mate, long e: ea, ee, ie, etc..
- r-blends: (cr, br, pr, gr, dr, ect..)
(NEW): - Add sounds in spoken words
(ex: add /s/ to the beginning of eat, add /t/ to the end of bee)
(NEW): Substitute sounds in spoken words (ex. Change the beginning sound in rake to /b/)
(NEW): Decode closed multisyllabic words (ex: nap/kin)
When a syllable ends in a consonant and has one vowel letter, the vowel sound is usually short. This is called a closed syllable. (rab/bit, bas/ket, cab/in)
- They are also working on blends and digraphs. See examples below.
- r blends (cr, tr, br, sr, pr, ect...)
- l blends (sl, cl, pl, bl, ect..)
- digraphs: (e.g., ea, oa, ee) (th, sh, ch, ck, wh, ph)
- They are tested on nonsense words as well, so that would be a great idea to work on. See examples below:
(lunch, sith, when, mack, jing, siph, tonk, dosp, dret, clep)
- Main Idea and Key Details
- What is the story about? What does the author want us to know? What is the problem? What is the solution? What are the details that help us to understand what the main idea is?
- Retell or Reenact major events in the story/text.
- Based on information from the text, ask and answer questions when prompted, such as who, what, when, where, why and how.
- Writing: Compose sentences that begin with a capital letter, and ends with a period, exclamation point or a question mark.
- Writing
- (NEW) Write to respond to reading and communicate ideas
Math
February 26th-March 6th
Chapter 11: Represent and Interpret DataMarch 9th- April 2nd
Chapter 12: Money and Time
Social Studies
Science
Video Links
Counting
1s: https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5c4666d2ea000#
5s: https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5c46672a88dfd#
10s: https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5c46675252c9f#
2s: https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5c46670494816#
5 Oceans: https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5c9a39ce4f887
7 Continents: https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5c6f4fff73d19#
Coin Song: https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5be9edb05922b
Greater than less than (this link is not a safe share): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhOf0H_gLP8&t=26s
Upcoming Events
Feb 24-28- PTO Food drive
Feb 27- Class Pictures and Spring Pictures
Feb 28-PTO Celebrity Dress up day
Mar. 6- Snack Train
Mar. 10- 1st & 2nd grade Spring Showcase 6:30
Mar. 13- PTO Nerd Dress Up
Mar. 16- 20- SPRING BREAK!
Mar. 26- Arts Integration Night
Apr 2-Report Cards go home
Wish List
sidewalk chalk
yellow highlighters