Reminders and Events:

June 19 Moving Up and Last Day for Students (11am dismissal)

September 4 Popsicles on the playground, 4-6pm

September 1 First Day!

First Grade Service-learning: https://penniesforpeace.org/get-involved/students-helping-students/

Thank you for supporting Pennies for Peace!! We raised almost $200.00!

Each Friday, first graders will have 5 dictation sentences to write as a spelling and grammar assessment. If you would like to practice at home, have your child write down simple sentences as you say them, checking for a capital letter at the beginning, punctuation at the end, and proper spelling (stretch out the sounds for words that can be spelled phonetically, sight words must be memorized.)

Spelling/Phonics Theme and new sight words, Week of     

                                        *If you don't see the current date, please email me - I may have forgotten to update. Thank you! 

We will continue to review all long vowels with "silent e" (cake, bike, mole, Pete, rule) as well as the vowel teams: ea (heat, seal, team) oa (coat, soap, foam) ai (rain, mail, aim, maid) ay (today, say, away, may) ee(seem, feet), oe(toe), ie(pie), ow(snow) ou (out, count) and both sounds of oo (cook book and loose tooth) ow (now, plow) and aw (saw, paw) oi (coin, joint, foil) and oy (boy, toy, destroy) ew(chew, stew, threw) ea(bread, head, read) -igh (sigh, thigh, high) -ight (right, night, light) ar(art, jar, cart, sharp) ur(hurt, curl, fur) or (storm, short, fork) and ir (shirt, third, first) er( clerk, verb, perch) -nk (think, bank, junk) -ng (sting, bang, song)

Sight words to master this week:  

Previous weeks' sight words: I, a, the, is, on, with, to, of, and, that, you, as, his, was, are, for, they, he, be, this, have, from, or, one, had, by, words, but, not, what, all, we, were, when, your, can, said, there, use, an, each, if, their, which, how, do, she, will, up, other, about, out, many, these, them, then, so, some, her, would, make, like, him, into, time, has, look, two, more, write, go, see, no, way, could, people, number, my, than, first, water, been, called, who, a, its, now, find, long, down, day, did, get, come, made, may, part (1st 100 list ends here) over, new, sound, take, only, little, work, know, place, years, live, me, back, give, most, very, after, things, our, just,name, good, sentence, man, think, say, great, where, help, through, much, before, line, right, too 

See resources page for link to complete Fry sight word list.

If your child is having trouble with sight words, have them try the following steps:

1. Say the word.

2. Close your eyes and say it, spell it, say it.

3. Open your eyes and write the word.

More practice:

4. Cut the letters apart

5. Mix it and spell it 3 times.