FIRST GRADE

Language Arts - Trophies

 

Aug. 18-22 :   Large group story:  THE HAT

This week’s practice:

• Phonics: short vowel a

• Words ending in –ap, -at

• High frequency words: down, got, up

• Encourage your child to read for at least 30 minutes outside of class each day.

 

Aug. 25-29: Large group story:  SAM AND THE BAG

This week’s practice:

• Phonics: short vowel a

• Words ending in –s

• High frequency words: and, in, oh, yes

 

MATH:

Chapter 1

 

In this chapter your child will be working with patterns. He or she will learn to identify patterns using a sequence of shapes and pictures.

 

Your child will also be exploring addition and subtraction concepts. He or she will combine numbers to find sums. Your child will also find 1 and 2 more or fewer than a number. Your child will order numbers from greatest to least and vice versa. The skills taught in this chapter will provide a foundation for your child as she or he learns to add and subtract greater numbers in the following chapters.                                   

 

Vocabulary: pattern, more than, fewer than, less, greater

Activity: Encourage your child to find pictures in magazines and newspapers that show patterns. Together you can cut out the pictures and tape or glue them to sheets of paper. Encourage your child to draw the pattern (using simpler pictures if necessary) below the picture cur from the magazine.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

UNIT 1

Our class is beginning a new social studies unit, called “School Days”.  We will find out what we can learn in the classroom, who works at school, what schools were like long ago, and what schools are like in other countries.  You can help your child get ready for this unit by doing the following activities. 

 

–If possible, encourage your child to talk with an older family member.  Talk with that person about what his or her school was like and how it was different from schools today.  Was it also different from the school you went to?

 

 

 

 

                                                                                         

FIRST GRADE

Language Arts – Trophies

 

Sept. 2-5:  Large group story:  ANTS

This week’s practice:

• Phonics: short vowel i

• Words ending in –ill, -it; and contractions with ‘s

• High frequency words: make, they, walk

• Encourage your child to read for at least 30 minutes outside of class each day.

 

Sept. 8-12:  Large group story:  JACK AND RICK

This week’s practice:

• Phonics: letters c and k that together make the sound hear in rock

• Words ending in –ick, -ink

• High frequency words: help, now, play, too, want

• Encourage your child to read for at least 30 minutes outside of class each day.

 

Animal Friends

Have your child tell you about the two animal friends, Jack and Rick.  What problem did they solve together?  How did they have fun solving the problem?  Then ask what kind of games your child would like to play with Jack and Rick.  Let your child tell a story about playing with these animal friends.  Write your child’s story down, and have your child draw a picture to illustrate it.

 

 

Sept. 15-19:  Large group story:  TODD’S BOX

This week’s practice:

• Phonics: short vowel o

• Words ending in –ed, -ing

• High frequency words: of, so, don’t

 

A Special Box

Ask your child to tell you about the things Todd put into his box of surprises.  Then help your child make his or her own special box.  Use a small box with a removable top, and let your child use markers, crayons, or paints to decorate it.  Then encourage your child to keep special belongings (such as a smooth rock, a favorite little plastic toy, and a chain of paper clips) in the box.  Ask your child to show you these belongings and tell what makes them special.

 

 

 

 

Sept. 22-26:  Large group story:  ALL THAT CORN

This week’s practice:

• Phonics: vowel a that makes the sound heard in ball

• Words ending in –all, -ill; and contraction n’t as in isn’t

• High frequency words: buy, that, very, where

• Encourage your child to read for at least 30 minutes outside of class each day.

 

Words, Words, Words

∑ Using index cards or paper cut in 2”x3” pieces, have your child write the words and read each word.  Have your child add their word cards to their word box.

∑ Ask your child to think of words that rhyme with buy and words that rhyme with that.

∑ Have your child make up a sentence using each of the new words.

 

*BE SURE TO REVIEW ALL HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS FROM BOOK ONE WITH

YOUR CHILD TO ENSURE SUCCESS ON THEIR POST TESTS.

 

MATH:

 

Chapter 2

Your child is learning about the meaning of addition and subtraction in this chapter. This chapter begins with the lesson that addition means the joining of two groups. Your child will explore addition stories and use manipulatives to join two groups. Then the chapter introduces vocabulary such as plus and equals, as well as the symbols that are used in an addition sentence (+ and =).

 

Similarly, your child will be learning that subtraction is used to separate or compare groups. She or he will begin by reading and solving stories that separate. Next he or she will use counters to take away, and then begin to use the word minus as well as the subtractions symbol (-). Your child will also compare objects to determine if there are more or fewer of a kind.

 

Your child will also learn some new problem-solving skills and strategies to write number sentences and choose whether they should solve the problem using addition or subtraction.

 

Vocabulary: add, plus, sum, equals, subtract, minus, difference

 

Activity: Give your child two groups of counters (beans, pennies, blocks, etc). They will need 12 total counters. Ask your child to tell you an addition story. Tell your child that the counters can represent anything that child wants to tell the story about. Together, model the addition with the counters and find the answer. You can also do this activity with subtraction stories.

 

 

 

SCIENCE:  1st Grade Scott Foresman

Chapter 1

 

In the science chapter Living and Nonliving, your child is learning the differences between living and nonliving things. Our class has learned that plants and animals are living things. We have also learned that plants and animals have needs that they must have to live. The children have also investigated how some nonliving things are made to look like living things.

 

While learning about living and nonliving things, the children have also learned many new vocabulary words. Help your child to make these words a part of his or her own vocabulary by using them when you talk together about living and nonliving things.

 

Vocabulary words: living, shelter, nonliving.