Holy Cross - First Grade

Spelling - Glued Sound -all and Bonus Letters

wall

fall

hall

mall

well

fell

class

fuss

stuff

sniff

Vocabulary A-Z is a great resource for practicing spelling words at home! Each week I upload the current spelling list into assignments.

To access the website, students will again go to

https://www.raz-plus.com/

Once there, go to kids login.

*If you haven't logged in before, it will have you put in a teacher username. The

teacher username is jsullivan 174. If you have already logged into Raz for reading, you will have to click change teacher. From there, you would type in jsullivan 174.

Once in, the student will click on their name.

The password is the apple.

Press go.

Click on vocabulary.

Click on the assignment.

The students can choose either phonics, spelling, or vocabulary. All choices have different games with the weekly spelling list for them to choose from.

If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page.

Reading - Last week we did a reading group on zoom. The week before we had reading groups and daily five centers in our classroom. Our reading groups are specific to each child's reading level. Another component of reading is sight words. In first grade the goal is to recognize the first 175 sight words. The sight word lists are in the Bee Binder. They can be practiced at home. Here are some pictures of daily five from 2 weeks ago -

Raz Kids is a great resource for reading at home. Each student's page has books at their level.

To access Raz Kids, you can either go to the website or download the app.

The website is https://www.raz-plus.com/

Once there, go to kids login.
The teacher name to enter is jsullivan100.
Once in, the student will click on their name.
The password is the apple.
Press go.
Click on the purple planet - reading.
Then there are some choices.
*If the student would like to read the stories we have read (or will be reading) in our reading groups, they will click on my assignment.
*If the student would like to choose books on their own, they will click reading room.
In reading room, they have lots of options on how to choose the books they want to read. If they want to read books at their level only, they may press leveled books. Every student has their level entered in the website. This allows them to read books at their level, as well as 2 levels above and below.

If you are using Clever, this website is linked to our class Clever page.

We also had a chance to meet with our fourth grade reading buddies for the first time. Here are a few pictures -

Phonics - We are learning about bonus letters. Bonus letter are the letters f, l, s, and sometimes z. The rule is that a word will usually have the consonant doubled at the end of the word if

*it is a one syllable word

*it has one short vowel

*it ends in the letters f, l, s (and sometimes z)

Some examples of bonus letter words are puff, tell, and toss.

We are also starting to learn about glued sounds. This last week, we learned about the first glued sound. The sound is -all. The keyword is ball.

Math - The last week in person we worked on +1 facts, using a balance to weigh items, and using pattern blocks to sort by shape and color and to make a graph. We practiced the +1 facts with fact cards and with wrap ups. The wrap ups are getting easier for us to use! The virtual week we worked on finding a sum and counting on, bar graphs, +0 facts, and using pattern blocks to cover shapes in different ways.