Nov. 30 - Dec. 4 2009 First Grade News

Mrs. Cook’s - First Grade News Nov. 30 – Dec. 4, 2009 This week we’ll read A Quiz for Brent and Tomás Rivera. Please read with and listen to your child read each day. As you listen to your child read, see if he/she can retell the story. Have him or her tell you what happened at the beginning, in the middle, and then at the end of the story. I’ll send the new sight words home on Tuesday or Wednesday. Also, please help your child study all of the sight words. P.S. If you can send something for the BAKE SALE at the Winter Festival, please send it Tuesday morning. (Cookies, Brownies, Cakes, Pies etc…)

NOTE: I have not sent home any fluency passages for your child to practice at home. I have decided that I’ll continue practicing with them at school, in their small groups, until after the DIBELS Reading Assessment. Then, I’ll start sending home a Fluency folder and a timer for each child. I may wait until January to start the home Fluency folders. Please make plans to attend the Cowart Santa Shop/Winter Festival on Tuesday, December 1st. Shopping will be from 5:00 – 8:30 PM. There will be a Chili/Hot Dog dinner from 5-6:30 PM. If you or your child attend, then I will give him/her a homework pass for that night’s homework.

Reading Homework for the Week

Monday – read A Quiz for Brent pg. 94-101, do Day 1 homework,

and study all of the sight words. Tuesday – read Tomás Rivera pg. 106-120, read Words to Know pg. 104-105, do Day 2 homework & review sight words. Wednesday – read A Quiz for Brent pg. 94-101 and Tomás Rivera pg. 106-120, do Day 3 homework.

Thursday – read Tomás Rivera pg. 106-120, read about the author/ illustrator pg. 122 - 123, do Day 4 homework and spelling Triangles.

(Phonics Skill in the stories is the sound of qu and wh) Spelling Words

quit quick quiz whiz which when arm part house put BONUS WORDS: about people family (Some spelling words are repeated.)

Math Homework

Tuesday – Worksheet Thursday – Worksheet art

Math Help your child practice counting backwards by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s. Thursday homework – complete math worksheet