This week in first grade (5/21– 5/25):
MATH:
* Continue our study of money and double digit addition
*There will be a test covering these topics on Friday, May 25
READING/LA:
* Stories: Frog Helps Snake, The New Friend
* Comprehension Strategy: Fantasy and Realism, Evaluate
* Phonics: Base Words and endings–es, -ies, Prefixes un- and re-
* Sight Words: after, before, buy, done, off, pretty, school, wash
* Grammar: Using was and were
* Reading Homework: Book report due Tuesday, May 29.
May Reading Log due on Friday, June 1.
SPELLING:
The Vowel Sound + r in Car – card, start, arm, farm, yard, dark, large, jar, shark, part. There will be a Spelling Test on Friday, May 25. Spelling homework is due on Friday, May 25. I will dictate 4 sentences. Students will be required to write the sentences correctly – Uppercase at the beginning, period at the end, and words spelled correctly. Ex: The cat is big.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
* Introduce Unit 5–This is Our Country
* Understand why our country’s past is important
*Learn about Native Americans and their homes
* Read a diagram
* Learn about early travelers toAmerica
* Learn about the 13 colonies