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Mrs. Sandkamp’s First Grade News February 25, 2010. Next Week’s Spelling List These word cards are in your child’s take-home folder! Practice these high-frequency words with your child! (Please help your child read these within a 3-second time frame.)
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Mrs. Sandkamp’s First Grade NewsFebruary 25, 2010 Next Week’s Spelling List These word cards are in your child’s take-home folder! Practice these high-frequency wordswith your child!(Please help your child read these within a 3-second time frame.) great warm cold sound know their Next Week’s Reading Skills Reading Theme: What’s the Weather? Phonemic Awareness: Listening for long /a/. Words such as: day, play, chain, rain etc. Spelling: Words with ay, ai. High Frequency Words: great, warm, cold, sound, know, their Comprehension: Compare & Contrast Grammar: Go and Do • mail 6. day • rain 7.cute • chain 8.use • way 9. great • play 10.know Math The children have worked on identifying coins, their value, and counting money this week. The children are counting with dimes, nickels and pennies. We have worked on adding ten to numbers on the hundreds chart. The children are also working on missing partners with higher numbers. Stories to Practice Please Listen to your Child Read the Following Stories: Decodable Reader, Trash Rules On-Level Reader, Save Paper, Save Trees *Extra Book (The extra books needs to be returned in the ziplock bag on Monday.) Please practice, practice, practice until your child can read the above stories proficiently! GREEN EGGS AND HAM! March 9th will be a special day! We will make green eggs & ham at school. If you have a copy of the book, Green Eggs and Ham, please send it to school with your child on Thursday, March 9th . Please write your child’s name on the inside cover of this book. READ, READ, READ! The more a child reads, the better reader he/she becomes. Take time to sit next to your child and listen to them read to you. It will help to increase their reading fluency. The more words that your child sees in print, the more automatic they become for them to read. Specials for Next Week M Art T Music & Phy. Ed. (Tennis shoes!) W Computer Lab TH Music & Phy. Ed. (Tennis shoes!) *CONFERNCES IN THE EVENING F NO SCHOOL! *CONFERENCES – ALL DAY & EVENING* CONFERENCE REMINDER! Thurs., Mar. 4th 5:00 – 8:00 P.M. Fri., Mar. 5th 9:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M.