What's Been Going On In 1st Grade??

Alot has been going on in first grade when it comes to Math. We have been working hard in Math on fractions, probability concepts (possible, impossible, certain, more likely, less likely, equally likely) and money. I encourage you to help them at home practicing with coins. They already have a good amount of knowledge about money since they study it in Kindergarten and because we work with it during our Morning Meeting each day. Have them tell you what coins they would use to make a certain amount.

In Language Arts, we have been working with antonyms, synonyms and homophones. We did a lot of fun excercises on the SmartBoard to practice these concepts. I have listed some websites below to practice these skills below. We also read a great book together called Tops & Bottoms in which we learned about antonyms and other new vocabulary.

Word Frog http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/frog/frog.html

Opposites Attract http://school.eb.com/lm/games/GE_4_4/GE_4_4.htm

Synonym Toast http://www.scholastic.com/wordgirl/synonym_toast.htm

Walk the Plank http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/synonyms/interactive/synonyms.htm

Synonyms Sam's Lab http://pbskids.org/lions/games/synsam.html

In Phonics, we have been practicing reading, writing and spelling with words that have l blends and s blends. We also have been reading words that end in y. Y is a tricky letter. It is sometimes considered a vowel. This week we called it the chameleon letter or Tricky Y the Robber Guy because it takes or steals the sound of 'i' like in try or 'e' like in the word funny.