First Grade Newsletter
Week of October 11, 2022
Literacy
In ReadyGen our new unit will focus on relationships at school. Through fiction text students will focus on characters, setting, and retelling events in the beginning, middle and end of a story.
Phonics
This week we will review and apply the sounds we have covered so far this quarter. This week we will practice reading and spelling with these sounds:
Focus: We will focus on reading and writing words with short i and consonant x and s making the z sound
Review: v, y, z, zz, qu, u, r, w, j, k, e
m, s, t, c/k, p, n, a, f, b, g, short i, d,l,ll,h, o
Tricky Words of the Week
Each quarter we will focus on 25 fry words. Students will practice reading and writing these words. Mastering these words helps students become more fluent in their
reading and writing.
Focus:
or, one, had, by, words
Review:
Math
We will start topic 3 which is addition facts to 20. Our focus math fact this week is +7.
Reminders
Student school hours are 8:00-2:50 each day.
Please send two snacks to school with your student each day.
Please send your child to school with a spill proof water bottle each day.
Please send your student to school with a light jacket or sweatshirt each day.
Please continue to check Seesaw throughout the week for messages.
If your child is sick or there is a change of transportation, you must call the office.
Please have our student return the attached homework by next Monday