Gr. One Home Schooling Week of April 20^th

Hi Boys and Girls,

I hope everyone had a great weekend and had some time to play outside in this nice weather. I was able to go for some refreshing walks. It’s so nice to see the water flowing in the rivers again and hear the birds singing. Spring is here at last! Feel free to email me if you any have any questions or just want to send me a note.  Enjoy your week. 

Reading-

Read at least 15 minutes a day.

Tip: Reading aloud introduces new words, grammar and concepts that you may not use during regular reading. An average child’s picture book may have around 500 words. These add up fast!

Parents: Please refer to the document I posted from the District Literacy Team. It has some great suggestions for Speaking/Listening, Reading /Viewing and Writing/Representing that your child may enjoy doing.

Cool and Fun Idea: Since I haven’t been able to visit my Granddaughter Aida, I started doing a video of me reading a story to her. She loves listening to these stories. I think it would be fun if you had someone at home video you reading a story to someone that you haven’t been able to visit!! I bet a relative, neighbor, teacher or friend would love listening to a story read by ‘you!!’

Word Work-

Work on your sight words. I've included a link below that has a cute game. 

https://www.abcya.com/games/out_of_sight_words

Spelling-

I will email your new words for this week. Let’s exercise this week with our new words. Stand up for each consonant letter and sit down for each vowel. Have fun learning! What other exercises can you do while going over your words?

Vowels

https://ca.ixl.com/ela/grade-1/choose-the-silent-e-word-that-matches-the-picture

Writing-

Continue writing in some format each day. This week you might like to write notes to friends or family members that you are not able to visit right now. Another idea that you might like to try: Choose a favorite picture that you have and write abut it.

Remember: the literacy document has some cool suggestions too

Math

Students should continue to review previous skills from time to time.

I heard that many of you enjoyed last week’s word problems that I emailed to you. Awesome!

This week I would like you to try to create a few addition and subtraction story problems orally. Then, try writing them down. I will email an outline which you may find helpful. I know you can do it!! Be creative! Be silly!!

I will also email you some more facts to go over! Can you find the partners?

Ex: 9+7=16                      16-9=7

       7+9=16                     16-7=9

Does anyone recall what these facts are called? (A fact family!)

Enjoy the following:

 https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/addition-word-problems-sums-up-to-18

 https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/subtraction-word-problems-numbers-up-to-18

 Don’t forget dreambox lessons! Have fun learning!!