Jeffrey Clark School

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Fundations: we will review proper letter formation, consonant and short vowel sounds, beginning sounds, Beginner sight words, nonsense words, ABC order, and practice blending cvc words.   

Unit 1 Order of review: t, b, f; n, m; i, u; c, o; a, g; d, s; e, r; p, j; l, h, k; v, w; y, x; z, q/qu

Phonics: We will review letter sounds, identify pictures & words that begin with these sounds,review short vowel sounds, finding words that rhyme, identifying beginning, middle, & ending sounds (like p/a/n), and practice blending sounds to read & spell a word (like h/a/t).  We will also practice reading nonsense words to practice blending sounds (like tep or muz).    

Journeys: We will review Beginner sight words. We will review letter sounds and letter formation, practice blending and reading CVC words, and will review high frequency words.  

The beginning comprehension skill is retell.  Learning to sequence beginning, middle, and end story events with details is an important first grade skill.  We will also identify characters and setting of the story.    

Practice Box Words we will review from Beginners: I, a, like, to, see, are, go, the, is, we.  

Journeys Unit 1 Lesson 1 week of 9/18: Theme is friendship/ being a pal: Practice box words: and, be, help, play, with, you; Grammar: nouns; Comprehension: main idea, summarize important events; Phonics: short a, short a word families, and consonants n, d, p, f; Vocabulary: classify and categorize words; Fluency: reading with accuracy; Writing: labels; Superstar words: pal, pals, beautiful, excellent, invitation, miss, ruin, suddenly 

Journeys Unit 1 Lesson 2 week of 9/25: Theme is weather.  Practice box words: for, have, he, look, too, what. Grammar: possessives. Phonics: short i, consonants r, h, b, g, /z/s.  Writing: captions.  Fluency: reading with accuracy.  Comprehension: understanding characters, realistic fiction, and infer/predict. Superstar words: bandits, brave, chattered, ears, steady, still.  

Go Math:  we will review proper number formation, counting, shapes, number words zero to ten, telling time to the hour, addition and subtraction readiness, and will find ways to make numbers up to 10 (like 2 and 3 make 5).   

 We will begin Ch. 1 on 9/18.  Chapter one is titled addition concepts: We will use pictures to find how many in all, write and solve addition sentences, use a bar model to solve part, part, whole (like 4+__=6), add with zero, write and solve turnaround facts (3+2=5; 2+3=5), and find ways to make 9 & 10.  There are 8 lessons in Ch. 1.  Ch. 1 Vocabulary: add, addends, addition sentence, is equal to (=), order, plus (+), sum, zero, join, add to, 1 more.  The Ch. 1 math test will take place on Tuesday, 10/3. A study guide will be sent home on 9/26 if you would like to practice for the test.    

Science: we will learn about patterns in the sky (sun, moon, and stars) starting 9/21.        

Grammar skills: September: we will review proper sentence mechanics (starting each sentence with an uppercase letter and ending with proper punctuation).  

 

Writing skills: September: we will review proper letter formation and will write one/two sentence(s) using various sentences starters or prompts.  Focus will be placed on starting each sentence with an uppercase letter and ending with proper punctuation. We will use various read alouds to learn how writers work.  October/November: we will work on writing personal narratives.  Focus will be placed on having a beginning, middle, and end to each story, using proper sentence mechanics (uppercase letter to start, finger spacing between words, neatest writing, and punctuation), and adding details to sentences and illustrations.