Weekly Overview

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 endingses, -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 5This is Our Country

* Understand why our countrys past is important

*Learn about Native Americans and their homes

* Read a diagram

* Learn about early travelers toAmerica

* Learn about the 13 colonies