Mrs. Vella's 1st Grade Super Stars

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Attention Whos of Quest-ville the TALL and the small!

Friday, March 1st is Dr. Seuss Day

To celebrate students can choose one, two, or all three of the activities below:

1. Show everyone a Thing or Two. Grab a friend and dress as Thing 1 and Thing 2.
2. Green Eggs and Ham anyone? Wear a green shirt, pants, socks or accessories to school.
3. How do those Who’s do it? Crazy Who Hair

• A letter titled “Dear Family” will be sent home in your child’s green take-home-folder (Monday).  Please have your student review it as the students still need some extra work on it.  It provides an activity to do together.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together.
  
  • PLEASE HAVE STUDENTS SHOW THEIR WORK   
    • ***Parents, I need YOUR SIGNATURE on the math homework as well as your student’s, indicating you did this activity with your child**
      
    *These are due on Friday.  When students return this letter with their name and a parent signature (indicating a parent read it and did the activity with their child), the student will earn “Star Dust”
    
    • Optional: for extra math practice, play any of these Math Fact Activities 2018                                                                                                                                        
    2-Fluency Passage:
    YOU DO NOT NEED TO RETURN THE FLUENCY PASSAGE       
                                                                                                                                               1st- Using a yellow crayon or high lighter, have your student highlight each word in the passage they can read correctly without any help FLUENTLY.
    2nd- Go back through the passage and have a “Good Conversation” about the words they were unsure of or didn’t know. Talk about what strategies good readers use to problem solve/figure out the word. Here are a few suggestions…CVC if there is only one vowel, it USUALLY make the short vowel sound, CVCe-is there an /e/ at the end of the word that makes the first vowel say it’s name. Is there a vowel team that follows the rule…When vowel teams go a walking, the first one USUALLY does the talking  such as ee, ea, ai, oa, etc. Are there words within words like “ants” at the end of elephants…”and” in the word land…Go over the fact that they can skip the word and use the content of the sentence to help them figure out what the word is.
    3rd- Lastly, Time them for ONE, one minute timing each day.  Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
    WE are looking for how many words they are reading correctly out of how many they read and then what they can retell.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    3.*NEW* Language Arts RAZ KIDS IS READY TO GO!!!
    
  • Below are the Login Instructions
  • Go to www.kidsa-z.com
  • Enter teachers username: Vella1
  • Find your student’s username on the class chart
  • Enter student Password: rams
  • I will also be sending home a note home tomorrow with this and a little more information. Please let me know if the level I have set for your student is too easy or hard and I will make adjustments as needed.                                                                                                            
    
    • This weeks PHONICS FOCUS: We will focus on  LONG /e/ sound, spelled with a y or an ey at the end of a word as in: bumpy, funny, puppy and key, alley, Mickey
      
    • Below is a bigger overview of this weeks LA focus: