Week of September 3, 2018

     Again we have another 4 day week!  Therefore, another busy week!  The children are all adjusting well in first grade and appear to be enjoying it.  We will continue to work on learning school and classroom procedures and expectations. It is very important that you review your child's binder daily and remove all graded papers.  It would be helpful,  if you would allow your child to complete any uncompleted work and return to school.   Please leave sight words in the binder.  We go over our sight words regularly at school.
       The children will work on the following skills this week:

• Read and discuss detail and main idea in weekly Bible Story "Cain and Abel"
• Read and discuss the meaning of the weekly memory verse: "I am the good shepherd.  The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep." John 10:11
• Identify, decode, and read words with the short /o/
• Discriminate between the short /a/, /i/, and /o/ sounds
• Generate and identify rhyming words in reading
• Continue to work on learning sight words, reading for fluency, and reading comprehension
• Retell and Sequence a story
• Identify details within a story 
• Retell and rewrite a story naming details within the story.
• Write a narrative about themselves
• Add by adding on
• Solving addition word problems
• Reviewing touch points
• Add in any order
• Continue to learn about the 5 senses (smell, hearing, and seeing)
• Learn about Friendship and how to be a good friend.

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

hop, top, log, hog, block, hot, lot, flat, slip, clock         Bonus Words:  friend     school

Your child will bring a list of spelling words home on Tuesday.  They should write each spelling word 3 times. (This will be their homework for Tuesday) The children should make sure that they did not write any letter backward when writing the word.  Allow your child a few minutes each day to review the spelling words. Your child will have one dictation sentence on the spelling test on Friday,  They should make sure that they begin the sentence with a capital letter and use a period at the end of the sentence.  Your child will have two bonus words on the spelling test.