Snack: 1st and 2nd grade have our first snack time during literacy. Please make sure your child knows which food is for their lunch meal and for snacks. Healthy snacks are always the best choice. Emergency snacks are provided to students who do not bring a snack from home (while supplies last).
Donation Request: Our emergency snacks are running low. Please consider sending in healthy, individually wrapped items for students who do not have a snack. Thank you!
Foundational Skills (Phonics, Decoding, and Spelling)
Students have been learning about the Magic –e rule. When the letter ‘e’ is at the end of a word, it is usually silent and makes the preceding vowel make its long sound. Examples: made, hike, eve, bone, or tune. So far, we have learned how to read ‘a-magic-e' words, ‘i-magic-e' words, and ‘u-magic-e words. This week, we will continue to learn how to read and spell the sounds of magic -e, with long ‘u.’
Students have begun learning some syllabication rules which will help them to read and spell multisyllabic words. Students have learned that closed syllables are syllables that end in a consonant and the vowel is short. For example cat, con, wis, hand, etc. The “Rabbit” rule is a syllable division rule in which the word has two closed syllables and is divided between them. For example: ab/sent, sun/set, in/sect, pret/zel.
Reading
We have continued rotating through our Literacy Centers during our reading time. Students have been practicing reading nonsense words in the word work center. During small groups, students are focusing on targeted phonics skills and reading comprehension.
Please continue to read to your child each night and have them read to you! It is all beneficial.
Writing
Last week, students wrote their conclusion sentences. Students learned that their conclusion sentence is the topic sentence restated in a different way.
This coming week, Students will begin a new opinion paragraph, and we will start the writing process over. Students need to practice writing topic sentences and conclusion sentences.