I hope everyone had a fun and restful Labor Day Weekend. We had an exciting week in First grade. This week we finished learning about our first grade friends and are almost finished writing all about them in our friend journals. We used the 5 star sentences to help us when writing at least 2 great sentences about our friends. These friend journals will be going in our book baskets for us to read and add to during Daily 5. We will be bringing them home to share with you soon.
During our Daily 5 block we have implemented all 5 Daily Five choices YAY!! First graders have had the choice of read to self, work on writing (in our new writing journals), read to someone, listening and word work. During word work we have reviewed the short and long vowels a, i, o, u. We sorted pictures according to the vowel sound. We also started reading groups this week. Your child has a book in their binder that they should read aloud to you each night as part of their 20 minutes of reading. The reading strategies we focused on this week include:
Check for understanding (comprehension) -- Who did what and where (fiction) and What did I learn (non-fiction.
Back up and Re-read (comprehension) -- If you can't answer who did what go back and re-read.
Cross Check (accuracy) -- Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
Stretch the sounds (accuracy)
Also in your child's homework binder you will find a list of sight words. Please have your child read these words to you nightly they will be assessed on mastery each Thursday. It they master that list they will move on to the next list.
During listen to reading the student enjoy listening to some great read aloud sites. Remember read alouds offer students the opportunity to hear reading fluency especially of books that they may not be able to read independently. Student are more than welcome to visit these sites as part of their 20 minutes of nightly reading. The sites are as follows.
Raz-kids -- https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login (username: jrowlett1)
Just read books -- http://www.justbooksreadaloud.com/
Storyline online -- http://www.storylineonline.net/
National Geographic -- http://ngexplorer.cengage.com/ngyoungexplorer/moreissues.html
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Our class pictures are on October 6 at 8:30.
Just read books -- http://www.justbooksreadaloud.com/
Storyline online -- http://www.storylineonline.net/
National Geographic -- http://ngexplorer.cengage.com/ngyoungexplorer/moreissues.html
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Our class pictures are on October 6 at 8:30.
Looking forward to another great week!!!
