Homework: Your child will have math and phonics homework most nights except
Friday. This homework will help to reinforce what has been taught in school
each day. It is so important to establish a homework routine for your child
that includes a specific time and appropriate place that is free from
distractions. Please be sure and check over your child's work each night.
Working together, I know that your child will greatly benefit.
IXL Assignment (for the week of Jan. 23):
Under First Grade Skills: A.3, B.19, N.1
For the week of Jan. 30: A.6, B.11, N.2
For the week of Feb. 6: A.10, B.12, N.3
For the week of Feb. 13: A.11, B.15, L.1
Our spelling test will be every Thursday; our reading (vocabulary) test every
Friday.
These are the spelling words for the next three tests:
List 22 List 23 List 24
great teacher jackpot
gummy Wednesday ankle
fly end gift
Monday Sunday shy
Saturday shatter restless
room soccer helpless
seen match night
cliff herd softly
topple Friday verb
took backpack lunch
floppy tight Tuesday
sky freckle Thursday
yesterday supper chair
jug name day
sandy clerk badly
friend most toothbrush
hood high money
large fireman color
silly home hammer
spoon more guess
We will have a timed math facts test every Wednesday. We will test on the
mixed subtraction facts next. Flash cards are an excellent way to prepare
for this test. The children will have 5 minutes to complete 36
problems. Examples are 9-9, 8-6, etc. Each week we will proceed to the
next test.
Remember to read aloud with your child every night. Record each book on the
Millionaire sheet (250 books for first grade).
Your child's AR book will come home nightly. The book should be kept in the
book bag and should be read at least 3 times before a test is taken. You may
send an e-mail or a note when your child is ready to take a test. If you are
comfortable, the child may just tell me when you both think he/she is ready.
We will try to get a new book at least twice a week.
For now, the children must be accompanied by an adult to check out a book.
Eventually they will be independent. There is no limit to the number of
tests that may be taken in a week (as long as the score average stays above
85%).
AR:
*Our library day is Tuesday.
*Read your book every night and return it to your back pack. Read your book
three times before testing.
*Keep an 85% average on your tests.
*Read at least 2 non-fiction books every 9 weeks.
*Enjoy reading your book!
Reading Stories and Vocabulary Tests:
We will read a new story each week and, each Friday, have a vocabulary test
on words from the story. The test will be "fill in the blanks".
There are no new words this week. Our vocabulary tests will continue the
week of Feb. 20. The children should understand the meaning of the words and
be able to use them in context.
These are some of the concepts that we will be studying at school.
Reading: author, illustrator, characters (who's in the story), main
idea (what the story's mostly about) and details, plot, comprehension,
retelling the story, setting, and good expression when reading aloud. Also,
help your child read with the proper fluency (at a pleasant speed). We need
to know what's on the title page (author, illustrator, title).
Math: Counting (by twos, fives, tens, forward and backward),
adding-vertical addition, subtraction, word problems, patterns,
adding on and number lines, greater than, less than and equal to,
graphs, finding numbers that are one more than, one less than another
number, telling time, counting money and reading a thermometer, fractions
(1/2, 1/4), place value (to 100), recognizing plane and solid shapes. Know
how many sides and vertices (corners) are on each shape. Know if the solid
shapes will stack, roll or slide.
Grammar: Sentence structure, using a capital letter at the beginning of
a sentence and a period, question mark or exclamation mark at the
end, nouns and verbs, contractions, compound words, subject-verb
agreement (he sees/we see), adjectives, pronouns, compound sentences.
You may want to practice irregular plural nouns; for example, children is
the plural of child, men for man, women for woman, feet for foot etc.
Also, words that end in x, sh, s and ch must have -es added to the end
to make them plural. We need to know the subject and predicate parts of a
sentence, synonyms (tall, high; fat, wide).