This week we will be enjoying the story, Lost and our strategy focus will be to monitor and clarify what we are reading. Our comprehension strategy will be looking at the sequence of events in a story.

In phonics, we will be focusing on words with the the phonogram /oo/ and the three sounds it makes: boo, book, door. We will also be continuing our study of compound words. Take a moment when you are doing your nightly reading with your child to find the phonogram /oo/ and also look for compound words.

I will finish introducing the rest of our our word wall this week and can you believe that we now know have 100 of our first grade word wall words!

We are going to wrap up our study of famous Americans this week by taking a look at a VERY special American! Ask your child who it is!

In math, we will be working in Chapter 16 which is a look at subtraction, counting backwards and relating addition and subtraction to solve equations. We will continue with our timed math. All of these concepts should be the ones you have your child do as his/her daily math homework.

Enjoy your week,

Lea

This week we will be enjoying the story, Red Eyed Tree Frog and our strategy and comprehension focus will be making predictions and inferences. In phonics, we will be focusing on words with the phonograms /ai/ and /ay/ which both say /a/ as in rain and play. We will also focus on the phonograms /ee/ and /ea/ which both say /e/ as in tree and beach. Have fun going on a phonogram hunt with your child nightly while you are reading together. We are reviewing already presented word wall words this week so no new word wall words to learn. Go on a word wall hunt during you nightly reading with your child. We do this in class so practice at home too. As part of our social studies curriculum, we are continuing our study of famous Americans . We will study a different famous American each week. This week will be learn about Abraham Lincoln. My hope is that you will read books at home about famous Americans also and look for book about famous Americans when you make your weekly trips to the public library. In math, we will be working in Chapter 14, this week and next. This chapter covers comparing and ordering numbers; greater than and less than. This is a new concept so practice at home would be very helpful.