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Homework

MARCH 8-12

MONDAY

  • Read your just right book for 15 minutes.
  • Read your poem to someone new.
  • Practice your spelling.
  • Saxon 67B and fact sheets.

TUESDAY

  • Read your just right book for 15 minutes.
  • Read your poem to someone new.
  • Practice your spelling.
  • Saxon 68B and fact sheets.

WEDNESDAY

  • Read your just right book for 15 minutes.
  • Practice your spelling.
  • Saxon 69B and fact sheets.

THURSDAY

  • Practice your spelling.

BONUS HOMEWORK

 

Learning Tips

READING RULES

"When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking”. 

The rule really relates more to their reading, so when they come across a word they don’t know, they can use this rule to help them decode.  In terms of their spelling, they’re just going to have to memorize which word has an ee or an ea.   For example, “beach” or “sail”. 

“Mean King Ed”

“King Ed” is the silent e, who shows up at the end of a VCe word.  He is mean because he makes all the vowels who come before him, “Say your name!”  I’m sure your first grader would be happy to demonstrate for you in a “Mean King Ed” voice.  He is different from his brother, “Eddie”, who likes to eat eggs.  Silly, I know.  So as you can see we have made the switch from short vowels, to long vowel patterns.  Please take any opportunity to reinforce these concepts at home as your child is reading and writing!

Class Schedule

8:00 　Language Arts

9:45 　Recess

10:00 　Language Arts (W-Library)

10:35 　Math

11:25 　Lunch

12:25 / 1:10 / 1:55

M: Social Studies / Music / Art

T: Spanish / PE / Social Studies

W: Science / Art / Social Studies

Th: Music / PE / Computers

F: 　Science / Spanish / Choice

 

Weekly Lesson Plan

THEME:  St. Patrick's Day

LANGUAGE ARTS
Double vowel combinations
Blue Group Reading: Mount Rushmore 
Grean Group Reading:  Goldilock and the Three Bears
Red Group Reading:  Henry and Mudge
Writing:  completing their how to books

MATH
Double digit subtraction
Saxon lessons 77-79

SOCIAL STUDIES
Diving into a unit on folklore and how it shows itself in American History.

SCIENCE
Kicking off a genetics unit.  Students will design imaginary friends while experimenting with heredity, genotype and the influence of dominant and recessive genes on phenotype.

MUSIC
Singing American Folk songs, learning a bit about our American history and how songs can come from poetry and reflect history.  Also studying the various sections of a piece of music (verse, chorus, bridge, etc.) 

ART
Our ceramic rotation has started.  Look out fo hand built projects celebrating the St. Patricks Day theme.

SPANISH
Multiweek focus on months of the year and days of the week.

PE
Soccer play to focus on making quick decisions with the ball in game situations.

COMPUTERS
Lego Engineering Module - Students will play Go Legos to solidify their understanding of lego parts and how to describe them.  Every good engineer needs a part list to build a product.

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