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