Download Weekly Newsletter 27 - April 17 - 21, 2017 Unit 6, Week 1 1st Grade

Weekly Newsletter
Unit 6, Week 1
Reading
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1 st Grade
the “big idea” or story message
Genre: Fantasy
Grammar Pronouns – we, you, they, he, she, I, it
Beth is making soup. She is making soup.
Suffixes - ful (helpful, joyful)
- less (toothless, hopeless)
Phonics/Spelling
variant vowel “u”
oo / ew / ue / ui / ou
Antonyms – opposites (cold & hot)
Synonyms – words that are similar (demand, ask, request)
Writing Traits:
Mathematics –
sentence fluency
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April 17 - 21, 2017
Mrs. Daniel
WMES
Weekly Homework
*Practice words and sentences on back of newsletter
*WRITING: Read the Writing Prompt directions and
use the rubric to write a story that is “one small
moment”.
*Oral Reading Fluency Passage – read, sign and write
# of words read every night.
*Read together and fill in the Reading Log.
*Read library books.
(Take at least 1 AR test each week.)
Adding 3 whole numbers &
Word problems with 3 numbers (OA.2) All homework is due on Friday morning.
Social Sciences - What does citizenship mean?
Be a good citizen!
High Frequency Word
Extra Notes
answer, brought, busy, door, enough, eyes
Vocabulary Words
fair, conflict, shift
argument, risk
Spelling Pattern
words with /oo/ sound:
moon
news
flew
blue
fruit
soup
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Important Dates
Friday, April 28 – weather day
No school
Monday, May 15 – weather day
No school
(unless needed between now and then)
Friday, May 12 – Field Day
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Help your child read the following words each night. Have him/her say each sound to practice the
beginning, middle and ending sounds. Notice and discuss the words with oo, ew, ue, ui and ou sound. See if
he or she can come up with more words.
moon
cool
tools
room
flew
drew
news
tissue
true
fruit
bruise
blue
argue
group
juicy
through
Help your child read the following sentences nightly. What are the words with the /oo/ sound in each
sentence? Talk about the capital letter at the beginning, spacing between the words and punctuation at
the end of each sentence.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Lucy and a group of friends sat by the pool.
Duke wore a blue suit and brown boots.
A moose from the zoo was on the loose.
Lucy, Sue and Drew ate fruit.
Ruth spilled a tube of glue.
See if your child can read these words from our stories this week:
powerful
hoot
tune
crew
harmless
joyful
Read the words with suffixes - less and - ful. Can your child think of more?
-ful – means “full of”:
painful
useful
fearful
joyful
hopeful
- less – means “without”:
senseless
pointless
useless
harmless
helpless
Synonyms with with the same or almost the same meaning.
happy - glad
spin - twirl
cold - chilly
The theme is the big idea or main message of a story.
The information in the story gives us clues about the message in the story. Ask:
1. What did the characters say or do in the story?
2. What message does the author want to give us?
3. What mainly happened in the story?
Math practice:
Practice adding any 3 numbers today, such as, 2 + 6 + 3 = ___
Make up an equation with 3 numbers and have your child write a word problem to go with it. For example,
using the equation above: 2 children slide, 6 children swing and 3 children climb. How many children are on
the playground in all?