Thea Smith

Mrs. Smith’s Sweeties Homework

4/23/13-4/25/13

This Week’s SAXON SPELLING: pages  hold  kind  draw  about  over  yellow  foundation  mention  fantastic  *today  *once

This Week’s SAXON DICTATION:  “I will bring hot dogs and buns” said Pam. Who would like to plan some games to play?

This Week’s STORTOWN HIGH FREQUENCY VOCABULARY:

This Week’s STORYTOWN ROBUST VOCABULARY:

Fondly- When something is done fondly, it’s done in a caring way.

Pale- If something is pale, it is very light or without much color.

Shadowy- If a place is shadowy, it is not in the light; it is shady.

Imaginative- You are good at coming up with things and ideas in your mind.

Similar- If you two things are similar, they’re alike in many ways.

Affectionate- If you are affectionate, you like to show you love someone.

Ideas for studying Robust Vocabulary:

Imagine that a noise wakes you up.  You see something shadowy.  Tell how it looks.

Look around the room.  Point out something that is pale.

Show how you might look fondly holding a puppy or kitten.

Describe an imaginative way to cook.

Tell a parent how you and your best friend are similar.

Show how you would be affectionate to a baby.

Don’t let them forget these vocabulary words already learned:

SAXON VOCABULARY REVIEW: of  do  into  to  who   you  your  the  said  often  are  what  their  there  come  some   does   goes   been   where   want   was   put  two  done  one  sure  don’t  won’t   bought  brought  fought  thought  would  could  should  school says give  have  live  they  people  eye  color  who what  from  friend love  move  many  any  another  brother  mother  other  only  something  answer  early  earth  heard  learn  were once today  tomorrow  together  again  four  country  often  rough  enough  tough  every  very  father  through    

HARCOURT VOCABULARY REVIEW: Book 1: late, oh, yes, help, let’s, now, in, no, too, hold, home, get, so, soon, find, much, thank, how, make, of, some Book 2: day  eat  said  first time  was  don’t  her  line  Mr.  new  says  water be  does  food  grow  live  many  arms  every  feet  head  school  use  cold  fish  from  their  under  very  came  could  gold  happy  made  saw   Book 3: air  fly  friends  grew  need  play  rain  watch  again, feel, house, know, loud, Mrs., put, say, about, books, family, name, people, work, always, by, Cow’s, join, nice,  please, room, buy,  carry,  money,  other,  paint,  paper,  would, mouse, our, over, pretty, surprise three Book 4:dear  door  hurry  mother  should  sky  told  cool  dry  four  holes  move  place  warm  around  found  gone  hears  might  near  open  tired  because  light  right  those  walked  brown  city  hello  loudly  loved  pulled Book 5 clear only good-bye hair toes color kinds

I am going to leave this link on the site for the entire school year. I went through all the different skills your student is being taught this year  (Comprehension, Grammar, Fluency, Writing) and gave an explanation so that you can reinforce their learning at home. I tried to use student-friendly language on a first grader's level. They need as much reinforcement as possible to be able to absorb all that will be taught to them this year!  So when you look at the above information and you see the Comprehension skills, the Grammar skills and Writing skills, you can click on this link to see and understand what will be the expectation to master that skill. We will revisit some of these skills MANY times during the year and each time we will go "deeper" to develop skill stamina and finally, skill mastery.