Review

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

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

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

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.

Phonics and Word Work

We will continue learning about 2-syllable words with closed syllables (VC/CV). Examples of such words are cannot, picnic, and rabbit.  

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 beginning blends starting with the letter "s".  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

🔢 Math

We will define and explore mass, as we compare the weight of different items using a balance scale. We will define and explore volume or capacity as we compare how much containers can hold.

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.