1st Grade Homework Letter Week of November 9-13
Spelling Words: Your child will be tested on these words on Friday
Helpful hint….Give spelling tests at home to help make testing easier!
huge June rule tube
use
cube cute flute rude
mule Bonus: forest
Reading Words: Your child will have a sight test over these words on Thursday
Helpful Hint….A Sight Word Test will be given on these words Thursday. Make
flash cards and go over these words nightly! The sight word test includes
these reading words and the spelling words from above.
around find food grow water under water
helped these what branch around pecks leaves
This weeks Homework:
Monday 11-09-09 Write spelling words 1x each in agenda/Math WS/
Read,Sign,Return June and Mule
Tuesday 11-10-09 Math WS/Read,Sign,Return Luke Meets Duke
Wednesday 11-11-09 Math WS/ Read Life in the Forest
Thursday 11-12-09 Spelling WS/Read Can We Have Fun?
Friday 11-13-09 Spelling Test day
This week in the classroom:
Our phonics skills of the week are the long u (ex. tube), long e (ex.
these), and word ending -ed. Practice words with these sounds throughout the
week with your child. Our story genre this week is Expository Nonfiction and
the reading comprehension skill we will be practicing is Author’s Purpose.
We will also continue with basic addition and subtraction this week.
We started a new assessment that began this past week, called
fluency. The Fluency test is on a page that I will keep in my records. Your
child will be given a passage on this test that he/she will read to me for 1
minute. I will mark the number of words that they read correctly to me in
that minute. The Mid-year goal for 1st grade is between 20-30 words per
minute. The end of the year goal is 60/min. If your child scores within the
goal range keep reading at home to increase their fluency rate. If your
child does not score in that range (in which I will notify you), don’t
panic. There could be a number of reasons why and I will work with you and
your child on how to help increase their fluency rate. When your child reads
more fluently, they are able to comprehend more of what they are reading. If
you have any questions, please feel free to check with me!!
News and Upcoming Events:
November 11: Veteran’s Day
November 19: First grade performance at the PTO meeting; be here by 6:15
Thanks for all of your help for West Fest!! Thanks for your time, donations
and teamwork to help make West the Best!! The children love to see how
excited you are about their learning and their school!!
