First Grade News for week of January 20, 2025
ELA & Reading: The first graders will be comparing different fables to write a persuasive piece about their personal favorite for our project-based assessment for the end of unit three. Ask your child to use the words imagine, create, suppose, and possible!
Spelling: we are moving into R-controlled vowels. We will be studying words with the “or” sound.
Math: Unit 8 will start on Tuesday. First grade students will learn strategies to add to 40.
Mobymax Challenge: Our goal is to make 100% on Mobymax fact fluency for BOTH addition & subtraction.
Remember you can always order from Scholastic Book Club using the first grade class code: YRWZB
Important Dates:
Snow Day on Monday, January 20th means that your child may need more support with reading project.
REAL meets each Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 3:35 - 5:00.
There is time allocated to do homework and are learning about snow projects for enrichment time.
Spelling List - /or/
or
more
score
sore
store
form
torn
storm
High Frequency words to spell:
their
some
High Frequency Words:
their
some
eat
play
so
Why teach sight words?
"A small set of words makes up the majority of frequently encountered words in written English. For example the 220 Dolch sight words, make up about 50% of the words in typical written English, and about 80% of the words in children’s books. Imagine how much easier a new book is to read for a child if the child already knows most of the words."
https://sightwords.com/sight-words/purpose/