Weekly Skills

Thank you all for coming to Parent Teacher Conferences. It was great to meet with all of you! Below are the skills that we will be covering for the next 5 days with our new story. We will start this next story, along with these skills, tomorrow. Please use this as a discussion point for what your child is doing in class. Thank you for all your support and as always please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

First Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 4, Week 3, “A Trip to Washington, D. C.”

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days.  (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule.)  You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Treasures: What do we treasure?	What can we learn about animals as they grow and change?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Vowel Digraphs oa, ow	Words with oa, ow below, boat, coat, loaf, pillow, road, row, snow, soap, yellow
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
once, found, wild, took, mouth	capital, country, documents, government
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
nation, symbol, tourist, abandon, splinter, sunken, harbor, statue	Letter F, f Left to Right Progression