Weekly Update 8-25-15

Monday-Reading logs came home today in your child’s Rock STAR binder! They picked out a book to bring home and read. Please be sure to read your homework paper (the blue paper)! It is all about builder a reader at home with your child! For first grade we ask that your child spends 10 minutes a night reading with you! In reading this week we are focusing on decoding strategies to help us sound out and read words that are tricky! So far we have talked about Eagle Eye…he has excellent eye sight and can help readers look at the pictures carefully to figure out a word they don’t know. Today we learned about Stretchy the Snake! Stretchy the Snake helps readers by sounding out each sound and then putting all of the sounds together to make a word! Ask your darling firstie if they can tell you about our special friends! Please be sure to have your child fill out their reading log after they read their book so that you can sign it! The reading log should stay in their binder and return to school each morning :)

Tuesday-Spelling words will be coming home! Do not panic  We will spend this week reviewing “short a” words and practicing some high frequency words. The words start out simple and progress as the year goes on…however these are words we expect them to spell correctly in their everyday writing…not just on the test! The first test (this Friday) will be a practice test!
Here are the words we will be working on…10 words total!

Short a Words
 1. at
2. bag
3. can
4. ham
5. sad

High Frequency
1. Was
2. Have
3. From
4. But
5. What

Friday-Our first spelling test! Don’t worry we will practice our words in class this week!

Curriculum Chat Reminder- September 8th @6:00 we will have k-2 curriculum chat! PLEASE try to make it to this event! It will provide you with a lot of information about first grade and we will be setting your child’s device up on the student WiFi if you are planning on letting your child bring a device to school.

I hope you guys are enjoying first grade so far! We had a fantastic first week of school! We have a super sweet bunch!