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
For the week of Feb. 20: A.14, D.13, N.7
For the week of Feb. 27: A.15, F.2, N.4
For the week of Mar. 5: A.7, F.3, N.5
For the week of Mar. 12: A.2, J.3, R.4
For the week of Mar. 19: catch up:)
For the week of Mar. 26: A.9, J.5, N.9
Our spelling test will be every Thursday; our reading (vocabulary) test every
Friday.
These are the spelling words for the next tests:
List 32 (test May 3)
meat
ready
hoped
wasn't
coin
framed
table
empty
you
storm
breakfast
great
sometimes
street
join
dared
annoy
fire
List 33 (test May 10)
poky
misses
mine
paint
inches
number
rain
herself
space
huge
vacation
fantastic
station
enter
ashes
yourself
he's
soy
nocturnal
raking
List 34 (test May 17)
lifeboat
queen
their
loud
author
aren't
cause
drawn
eye
climb
cowboy
card
town
isn't
lawn
believe
mound
kingdom
tiny
fault
teeth
We will have a timed math facts test every Wednesday. We will test on the
mixed subtraction and addition facts next. Flash cards are an excellent way
to prepare for this test. The children will have 4 1/2 minutes to complete
36 problems.
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 books will come home nightly. These books 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. 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 4 non-fiction books every 9 weeks.
*Enjoy reading your book!
Reading Stories and Vocabulary Tests:
During this last quarter of school, we will have small group book studies.
The study of vocabulary and commprehension will continue, but will not
necessarily be assessed every Friday as usual.
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).