December 1st - 5th

📚 Literacy

Review

Review Letter Sounds

Access reading material and games that your child can decode by clicking the purple bars below. You can record these activities as home reading.

CVC Boom Cards

💥Decodable Readers 💥

Word Work Boom Cards

Boom Phonics Games

High-Frequency Words

High-frequency words are words that students will encounter often when reading and writing. These words often, but not always, have irregular or uncommon spelling patterns making some of the sounds. Over the next few weeks, we will be reviewing some of the most common words that students probably worked on in Kindergarten.

Flash Words - Words that have regular spelling patterns and can be sounded out, but are so common that it is valuable for students to know them on sight.

Heart Words = Words that have irregular or uncommon parts that students need to remember. Often, some parts of these words are regular and students just have to remember the "tricky part."

Temporary Heart Words - Words where the tricky parts are only tricky because students have not yet learned or mastered those phonics patterns.

Learn more about heart words here: https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic

You may find it helpful to record these words on dollar store recipe cards or square note pad paper to review often as part of your nightly reading routine.

Weekly Word Activities

Review past words. Click on the word to complete activities.

the I a at look see can like my you and

go no so we me he she am an on

to do is it in up of come are

for that what then when they there where

say said them was with her his all will

from

This Week's Words:

get did us now how

Click on the blue underlined words below to go to activities for these high frequency words.

get - Flash Word

This word can be decoded using simple consonant and short vowel sounds.

did - Flash Word

This word can be decoded using simple consonant and short vowel sounds.

us - Flash Word

This word can be decoded using simple consonant and short vowel sounds.

now - Heart Word

how - Heart Word

We have been reading these high frequency word poems. Read them at home too. Be sure to have your child point to each word as it is being read. This is called tracking and it helps your child focus on the words.

All Poem

Her Poem

How Poem

Phonics and Word Work

Over the next several weeks, we will be learning about consonant blends. Blends are when two letters blend together - they still each make their own sound, but they can be harder for beginning readers to hear both sounds because they kind of "stick" together. This week, our focus will be on continuing "s" blends and beginning blends with the "l" and "r". Although we will discuss several common consonant blends, the goal is not necessarily for children to memorize these blends, but rather to practice hearing, reading, and writing all the sounds in words. Moving from segmenting and blending 3 sound words to 4 sound words can be a challenging step for many readers. We will practice this over many weeks!

Shared Reading

The passages to the right are basically the same, but the one marked with an E is a little less challenging. Students who need shorter sentences and fewer tricky words are given the E passage.

The passages below are basically the same, but the one marked with an E is a little less challenging. Students who need shorter sentences and fewer tricky words are given the E passage.

🔢 Math

We are beginning to discuss graphing this week using pictographs and bar graphs.

We will collect data and display it on graphs. We will be using tally marks, pictographs and bar graphs. We will use this information to make simple conclusions and answer questions.

We have been making numbers on the calendar using 10 frames and base 10 materials. Students will examine place value more closely as they make teen numbers. We have also been practising counting forward and backwards from a variety of different numbers to 20. Students can review these skills by working on adding facts focusing on +1 and addition facts to 10.