Base Ten Block Enjoy making different numbers, but grouping the tiles into groups of ten.
Paint Brush Math Have fun adding and coloring a beautiful picture!!!
First Grade Skill Builders A treasure trove of activities for practicing all math skills, including addition and subtraction, as well as language skill practice.
Some wonderful place value websites have been added below.
End of Year Activities
* All Library books should have been returned yesterday. If you have any Library books at home please send them in ASAP.
* Friday, May 31 - Living Rosary at 10:00 a.m.
* Tuesday, June 3 - 10:00 a.m. Drama Play
*June 9th through June 13th* 12:30 dismissals
*June 9th - Pancakes for Parents - Come and enjoy a light breakfast with your child.
* Tuesday, June 10th - Moving Up Day - Your child will be meeting with Ms. Williams having their second grade summer project explained to them and getting to know their new teacher!
* Wednesday, June 11th - Awards Ceremony - Awards for the end of the year will be given out. Please ask your child what awards they recieved when they come home.
*Thursday, June 12th - Field Day - We hope you can come volunteer to help!
* Friday, June 13th - Last Day of School! First grade will be leading Mass at 10:00 a.m. There is no aftercare!
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Suggested Reading for students entering First Grade
Aliki My Visit to the Dinosaurs
Asch, Frank Happy Birthday, Moon
Blacksma, Mary Yoo Hoo, Moon!
Bridwell, Norman Clifford the Big Red Dog
Brown, Margaret Wise Goodnight Moon
Calstrom, Nancy White Blow Me a Kiss, Miss Lilly
Coplon, Emily She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain
Crews, Donald Bigmama’s
DeBrunhoff, Laurent Babar’s Little Circus Star
Delton, Judy My Mom Made Me Go to Camp
Dobkin, Bonnie Go-with Words
Dubowsi, Cathy East Pretty Good Magic
Ehlert, Lois Feathers for Lunch
Ets, Marie Hall Gilberto and the Wind
Everitt, Betsy Mean Soup
Fleming, Denise In the Tall, Tall Grass
Gammell, Stephen Is That You, Winter?
Ginsburg, Mirra Across the Stream
Guarino, Deborah Is Your Mama a Llama
Haus, Felice Happy Birthday, Cookie Monster
Hest, Amy Baby Duck and the Bad Eyeyglasses
Hest, Amy In the Rain with Baby Duck
Hoff, Syd Danny and the Dinosaur
Howe, James The Day the Teacher Went Bananas
Isadora, Rachel At the Crossroads
Johnson, Angela Julius
Johnson, Crockett Harold the Purple Crayon
Joosse, Barbara Mama, Do You Love Me?
Kasza, Keiko A Mother for Choco
Keats, Ezra Jack The Snowy Day
Kimmel, Eric A. I Took My Frog to the Library
Kraus, Robert Leo the Late Bloomer
Kraus, Robert Milton the Early Riser
Kionni, Leo Inch by Inch
London, Jonathan Froggy Gets Dressed
Marshall, Edward Fox in Love
Martini, Bill Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Mayer, Mercer All by Myself
Murphy, Stuart J. The Best Vacation Ever
Novak, Matt Elmer Blunt’s Open House
Numedroff, Laura Joffe If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Radlauer, Ruth Shaw Molly
Rey, H.A. Curious George
Stoeke, Janet Morgan A Hat for Minerva Louise
Titherington, Jeanne Pumpkin Pumpkin
VanLaan, Nancy Possum Come a Knockin’
Walsh, Ellen Stoll Hop Jump
Ziefert, Harriet M. Sleeping Dog
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Different ways to help your child learn sight words.
1. Make a poster cutting the words out of magazines or newspapers.
2. Make the words out of pasta letters and glue them to something to be brought in.
3. Write the words using different colors on something to be brought in.
4. Decorate a box and fill the box with the words on index cards or cut up paper.
5. Make a dictionary using the words.
6. Write sentences using the words below. Highlight the words in the sentence.
7. Write a story using the words. Highlight or use markers to show the words in the story.
8. Be creative and come up with your own way to practice the words. This must involve something that can be brought to school and your child must be able to explain it.
This is a site that you can print sight word flash cards from for free.
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/dolchflash.htm
READING TIPS
GUIDED READING
The folowing strategies are the basis of guided reading. Parents are also encouraged to follow these strategies when reading with children.
1. Look at the picture. You may tell the child that the word is in the picture, if it is.
2. Look for chunks in the word, "it" in sit, or "at" in mat.
3. Get your mouth ready to say the word by shaping the
mouth for the beginning letter.
4. Does the word look like any other word they know? (book looks like look)
5. Go on and read to the end of the sentence. Reading
the other words in context, you can figure out the
unknown words.
6. If they say the wrong word while reading, ask the
questions like...
does it make sense?
does it sound right?
does it look right?
ADDITIONAL HINTS IN SELECTING A BOOK AND ENJOYING READING
Use the five finger rule. If five or more words on a page are unfamiliar to your child, the book is too difficult.
Read easier text to practice fluency and expression.
Take turns reading pages with your child. When you read, you are demonstrating good reading behaviors.
Ask your child questions as you read together to check for comprehension.
Make frequent trips to your local library to get new books to practice reading. Students are more likely to read, when the books are about something they enjoy.
WRITING TIPS
CAPITAL LETTERS Capital letters are used at the beginning of each sentence.
Common nouns are lower case letters.
Proper nouns are upper case letters.
SPACING Spacing is used to separate words in
a sentence.
One finger space between words allows
sufficient spacing.
Use two fingers to space between
sentences.
SPELLING Correct spelling can be found by
using our WORD WAll.
Inventive spelling is used for new
word usage. (Sounding out and
writing heard letter sounds)
HANDWRITING Correct capital/lower case
letter-number formation using top,
middle, and bottom handwriting lines
in block print.
PUNCTUATION Appropriate use of period (.),
exclamation point (!), question mark
(?), comma (,), apostrophe (!).
Each will be introduced this year.
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