First Grade Home Connection September 21 - October 3

Week of September 22

No Homework Packet or

Spelling Words assigned.

Fall Break: Thursday & Friday, September 25-26. No School.

Week of September 29

Spelling Week #6: all, call, fall, wall, ball, tall, not, much, thank

Monday Homework Packets will come home today.

Practice your spelling words. Complete spelling pages.

Read to an adult for 15 minutes.

Tuesday Early Dismissal @ 12:30 PM Bring a peanut-free snack.

Do the Drops in the Bucket reading page.

Write your asking sentences. Read to an adult.

Wednesday Do the Drop in the Bucket math page.

Review your spelling words. Do the math number words.

Thursday Complete the math subtraction page. Read a story with an adult.

Friday Don’t forget to turn in your homework.

Spelling Practice Exercises: Silly Sentences – Use all your words in ten sentences.

Pyramid Words – Write your words adding or subtracting one letter each time.

The result will be a pyramid shape of words.

Ransom Words – Write your words by cutting out letters in a newspaper or magazine

and gluing them onto blank paper.

Words-in-Words – Write your words and then write at least two words made

from the letters in each word.

Story Words – Write a short story using all your words.

Secret Agent Words – Number the alphabet from 1 to 26, then convert your words to a number code.

Etch-A-Word – Use an Etch-A-Sketch to write your words.

Past Spelling Words:

Week #1: am, at, cat, can, ran, man, map, tap, a, the

Week #2: hat, had, sad, sat, bat, bag, at, can, help, now

Week #3: in, pin, pig, big, dig, did, had, sat, too, no

Week #4: pick, pack, tack, back, sack, sick, big, in, hold, so

Week #5: top, hop, hot, not, dot, lot, back, pick, oh, yes

What’s Under My Thumb?

· You need dominoes to play.

· Ask someone to help you play!

Here is how to play-

· Pull a domino out of the bowl.

· Don’t show it to your partner!

· Figure out how many dots are on the domino altogether. This is called the sum.

· Now put your thumb so it covers one side of the domino and show the domino with one

side covered to your partner.

· Tell your partner what the sum is and have them figure out what the number is under your thumb.

· “ ______ is the sum. What’s under my thumb?”

Addition SNAP!

Materials Needed: playing cards (Ace=1) - 9

Skills: addition, immediate recall of basic facts

Set-Up: Players divide the cards evenly between themselves.

How to play:

1. At the same time, each player turns over one card.

2. Players add the two together as quickly as possible and say the answer out loud.

3. The player who gives the correct answer first collects both cards.

4. In the event of a tie, players leave their cards down.

5. Play resumes until one player gives the correct answer before the other and takes all accumulated cards.

6. Play continues until one player has collected all of the cards.

Variations: The target number of 10 may be changed before play begins. Multiple cards and/or operations may be used to achieve the target sum.