Newfield's Family Resources - First & Second Grade

First and Second Grade

Listen For These Bird Calls In Your Backyard!

Watch and listen for these birds. You can record your observations in your bird watching notebook!

American Crow

Grackle

Nuthatch

Downy Woodpecker

Blue Bird

House Sparrow

American Goldfinch

House Finch

Black-Capped Chickadee

Blue Jay

American Robin

Cardinal

Math Fact Practice Resource

https://xtramath.org/#/home/index

This is a link to Xtra math - a free program to help students master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Click kon the tabs to learn more: overview of the program, explanation of student activities, description of progress reports, and getting started for parents.

Parent Resource: Phonemic Awareness in First Grade

This resource answers the questions:

What is phonemic awareness?

What should my first grader be able to do?

How can I help my child develop phonemic awareness skills?

This is a helpful guide for parents of first and second grade children.

https://blog.maketaketeach.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Phonemic-Awareness-Parent-Handout-First-Grade.pdf

Parent Resource: Phonological Awareness Activities for Parents

You will find fun and easy activities to work on the following early literacy skills: word segmentation, rhyming, syllable blending and segmenting, syllable deletion, phoneme manipulation, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation / blending.

https://sites.google.com/a/saintelizabeth.us/learningspecialist/home/pre-reading-activities-including-phonological-awareness/phonological-awareness-activities-for-parents

Parent Resource: Oral Reading Fluency for Parents

This resource answers the questions:

What is oral reading fluency?

How do I know if my child is reading fluently?

How can I help my child read fluently?

You can find helpful ideas to support the development of your child’s oral reading fluency here.

https://blog.maketaketeach.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Oral-Reading-Fluency-Parent.pdf

Parent Resource: Reading Comprehension for Parents

This resource answers the questions:

What is reading comprehension?

How can I help my child with reading comprehension?

https://blog.maketaketeach.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Reading-Comprehension-Parent.pdf

Parent Resource: Learning Sight Words for Parents

This resource provides parents with different ways to learn and practice sight words. The resource references the Dolch Sight Word list. Check with your child’s classroom teacher for the sight word list used in their class and use that as your list for sight word vocabulary building work.

https://blog.maketaketeach.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Learning-Sight-Words.pdf

https://www.nifdi.org/programs/di-at-home/teach-your-child.html

This is a link to the book, Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Englemann. The book can be ordered on amazon. This is a step-by-step guide for parents to use with their children for just 15-20 minutes per day to build reading skills. Recommended for grades k-2.

Build Your Own Fairy House!

Get outside and explore nature! Collect materials and build your own fairy house structure. Draw a picture of it and write about it. Who will live in your fairy house?

Nature Counting

Find objects in nature and start counting! Make your own addition and subtraction problems with nature and record your math facts as you go. An example: 6 acorns + 7 pine cones = 13.

Make Your Own Pine Cone Bird Feeder

Go outside and find some pine cones. Use a butter knife to spread peanut butter on the pine cones. Roll the pine cones in birdseed. Attach a string and hang on a nail or branch. Start bird watching!

Make Your Own Bird Watching Notebook

These are some of the common birds you might see. Spend time outside observing nature - watch and listen for birds. You can make a bird watching notebook. When you see and identify a bird, take or draw a picture. Make notes (date and time, weather, bird behavior) about your observations.