Tuesday, May 21, 2013

This Coming Week


Just a reminder that this Thursday is our first grade program at 1:00pm and on Tuesday (5/28) is our field trip to Discovery Gateway Museum. Below you will find our last set of weekly study skills! Please continue to read daily and practice math facts. Have a great week!

First Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 5, Week 6, “The Stone Garden”

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. 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.)

Great Ideas:  What difference can a great idea make?


What can happen when someone has anew idea?

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.)
Prefixes un-, re-

Long o: o; Long i: i
Words with prefixes un-, re-
refill, reopen, repay, retell, rewind, undo, undress, unhappy, unkind, untie
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
carry, answered, poor, different
buried, bush, curious, miracle, neighbors, woman, young

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.)
accomplish, doubt, original, (un)manned, glider, soar, exclaim

Word Spacing

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Time Flies!

I can't believe how quickly the year is coming to an end. Just a reminder that May 23 is our first grade program at 1:00pm. They have been practicing very hard, you won't want to miss it!


First Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 5, Week 5, “Alexander Graham Bell:  A Great Inventor”

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. 
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.)

Great Ideas:  What difference can a great idea make?


How can a great idea change the way we live?
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 Sound in ball:  aw, au

Syllable Patterns
Words with aw
crawl, draw, hawk, jaw, law, lawn, paw, saw, straw, yawn
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
early, learn, science, built, through
Alexander, Canada, dehusker, Graham, heard, piano, telephone, Thomas

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.)
determined, inventor, technology, stable, stalled, biplane, sketch, speech

Sentences: Word Spacing