Mrs. Vella's 1st Grade Super Stars

*ALL MATH, SPELLING AND TIMED READING FLUENCY HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 27TH.

**ALL READING MINUTES NEED TO BE RECORDED ON YOUR STUDENTS READING LOG SUNDAY , JANUARY 29TH.
***READING MINUTES ALSO NEED TO BE RECORDED SUNDAY, JANUARY 29th FOR THE LIBRARY CHALLENGE.   IT REALLY IS SO SIMPLE AND  TAKES LESS THAT 2 MINUTES TO COMPLETE.

There are 7 components to this weeks homework:
1- My Math Worksheets: 1-4
***Last chance to turn in My Math worksheets 7-8 and Fluency Practice (10 problems on the front and back for a total of 20.)
2-Math Timings: Subtracting from 8
3- Reading Fluency: Story #8
4-Reading Minutes: (20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week)
***WEEKLY READING MINUTES MUST BE RECORDED BY SUNDAY FOR CREDIT (Checked Monday). LATE RECORDED MINUTES WILL NOT BE RECORDED FOR CREDIT. 
***PLEASE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO RECORD YOUR STUDENT’S MINUTES FOR OUR LIBRARY CHALLENGE TOO. SO far I have only had two students do this…I would love our class to get the SUPER COOL prize for reading the most in first grade. You can find the link to record your minutes on our blog under the Library Reading Challenge tab.
5- Spelling
6- ***Important Question of the Week: If you were the NEW President of the United States, what would you do first?


I LOVE MATH!!

1-My Math Homework for the Week:
Monday Lesson 1: Add Tens
Tuesday Lesson 2: Count on Tens and Ones
Wednesday Lesson 3: Add Tens and Ones
Thursday Lesson 4: Problem Solving Strategy: Guess, Check and Revise

• Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week).  If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

2-Math Timings: Subtract from 8

• Practice your fluency timing repeatedly:  Record your best time and score each day. [By the end of first grade, the target goal is to finish all 25 problems in 1 minute and 15 seconds, with 90% accuracy (23 out of 25 problems correct).]  Remember if your student Click here for extra timings: Fluency Timings

Helpful Hint:  Use counters (pennies, buttons, macaroni, etc.) if needed to model subtraction  or draw pictures (e.g. simple circles) and cross off the number being subtracted. Count backwards when subtracting 1, 2, or 3: Start with the bigger number and count backwards (Example: 8 – 3.  Snap your finger and say “8″ and count backwards 3 times: say 8 (snap)…7…6…5).

3- One Minute Reading Fluency: Lesson #8 Please print from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories
This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader.  It will also count as reading minutes.  Time your student for one minute. Record the number of words they were able to read CORRECTLY in one minute. Again, Please make sure you are ONLY recording the CORRECT  WORDS READ in that minute

*Want to save paper?  Have your student read the passage online, then simply record their CORRECT words read/minute each day on their spelling homework form.

4- Reading: 20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week:
RECORD YOUR READING MINUTES ON THE  “BOOK IT”  READING LOG located in your student’s green folder.
***There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Baggy Books,” books from the school library, books from home, as well as the public library. Students may also use our online reading program Raz-Kids.  Our class Raz-Kids login is: dvella0 (That’s a zero)

Please READ, READ, READ with your student, but more importantly, have them be the ones doing the reading to you. They will only become better readers whey THEY are the ones doing the reading at this point. If your student really struggles with reading, try this “FUN GAME.” Pick several words that they will read 100% of the time in the book(s) AND passages they are reading. Write them on a sticky note, and have them put a tally mark on the sticky note each time they read that particular read. This will give them another visual reminder of how important those words are. 

      **Help your student sound out ALL CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant)  words.
      **Help them find words within words when they get to a word that “looks long and scary.”
      **They NEED/SHOULD BE able to recognize and read words with vowel teams /ee/, /ea/, /oa/, and /ai/ since we have been working on them since November. Ask them what the rule is when they get to a word that has a vowel team in it.  Our chant: When vowel teams go a walking, the first one does the talking.
     **They should be getting very familiar with CVCe words too! We call them “Tickle E Words.” Have your student tell you why.

Knowing basic reading strategies and rules will help your student’s reading fluency and comprehension. From now on, our fluency passages will be increasing in difficulty, so if your student doesn’t have a good grasp on these few basic reading concepts, I would recommend spending some time on these for now as well as continuing with the re-tell ropes.





5. Phonics and High Frequency Words
High Frequency Words
Here is the link to print our weekly spelling homework form:  New Weekly Spelling Homework **Remember if you choose  not to print off and use this form you need to make sure your student is writing each word and the sentence daily on paper, and that all writing is nice and  neat as well as organized like the form, and that the papers get turned in on Friday for credit.
Our spelling test will be Friday, November 9th.

NEW WORDS:
could
who
been
like
but
PHONICS FOCUS WORDS:
fed
web
get
SENTENCE:
Who could have fed the dog?

The spelling words with sentence are worth 16 points/day this week. The spelling test will be given Friday.
***Your student needs to write EACH SPELLING WORD ONCE in the 1st 5 boxes and the 3 Phonics words in the following 3 boxes. There should be plenty of space to write the sentence once on the 2 lines provided at the bottom of each page on the form.
**I have noticed that there have been students that aren’t following these required guidelines and are therefore NOT GETTING FULL CREDIT!


6- ***Important Question of the Week: If you were the NEW President of the United States, what would you do first?

*ALL MATH, SPELLING, READING, AND QUESTION OF THE WEEK, ARE DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 20TH.
**ALL READING MINUTES ARE DUE MONDAY JANUARY 22TH.
Help your student make this term the best so far by eating right, getting enough sleep, coming to school prepared each day with their folder, baggie book, and library book if it’s a Tuesday. Please help your student make sure their homework is 100% completely and CORRECTLY done, then turned in on time!!

There are 7 components to this weeks homework:
1- My Math Worksheets: 7-8 and Fluency Page (10 problems on both the front and back for a total of 20)
2-Math Timings: Subtracting from 7
3- Reading Fluency: Story #7
4-Reading Minutes: (20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week)
***WEEKLY READING MINUTES MUST BE RECORDED BY SUNDAY FOR CREDIT (Checked Tuesday this week). LATE RECORDED MINUTES WILL NOT BE RECORDED FOR CREDIT. 
***PLEASE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO RECORD YOUR STUDENT’S MINUTES FOR OUR LIBRARY CHALLENGE TOO. SO far I have only had two students do this…I would love our class to get the SUPER COOL prize for reading the most in first grade. You can find the link to record your minutes on our blog under the Library Reading Challenge tab.
5- Spelling
6- ***Important Question of the Week: If you could go visit the North Pole this week, what would it look like when  you got there, and what would you do for fun?



I LOVE MATH!!

1-My Math Homework for the Week:
Tuesday Lesson 7: Fact Families
Wednesday Lesson 8: Missing Addends
Thursday Lesson Fluency Practice: 10 from each page for a total of 2o.

• Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week).  If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

2-Math Timings: Subtract from 7

• Practice your fluency timing repeatedly:  Record your best time and score each day. [By the end of first grade, the target goal is to finish all 25 problems in 1 minute and 15 seconds, with 90% accuracy (23 out of 25 problems correct).]  Remember if your student Click here for extra timings: Fluency Timings

Helpful Hint:  Use counters (pennies, buttons, macaroni, etc.) if needed to model subtraction  or draw pictures (e.g. simple circles) and cross off the number being subtracted. Count backwards when subtracting 1, 2, or 3: Start with the bigger number and count backwards (Example: 3 – 2.  Snap your finger and say “3″ and count backwards 2 times: say 3 (snap)…2…1).


3- One Minute Reading Fluency: Lesson #7  Please print from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories
This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader.  It will also count as reading minutes.  Time your student for one minute. Record the number of words they were able to read CORRECTLY in one minute. Again, Please make sure you are ONLY recording the CORRECT  WORDS READ in that minute

*Want to save paper?  Have your student read the passage online, then simply record their CORRECT words read/minute each day on their spelling homework form.

4- Reading: 20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week:
RECORD YOUR READING MINUTES ON THE  “BOOK IT”  READING LOG located in your student’s green folder.
***There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Baggy Books,” books from the school library, books from home, as well as the public library. Students may also use our online reading program Raz-Kids.  Our class Raz-Kids login is: dvella0 (That’s a zero)
****Your student should also be able to access Waterford, and do one activity each day from a computer at home.

• I know you are probably SSSSSOOOO tired of seeing this “BLIP” about reading fluency and comprehension, but I can’t stress it enough!!!

DIBLES TESTING: Our students are coming along but have a ways to go to become proficient readers with great comprehension skills. Please READ, READ, READ with your student, but more importantly, have them be the ones doing the reading to you. They will only become better readers whey THEY are the ones doing the reading at this point. If your student really struggles, then pick several words that they will read 100% of the time in the book(s) you are reading over the next couple days. Write them on a sticky note, and have them put a tally mark on the sticky note each time it’s read. This will give them another visual reminder of how important those words are. 

      **Help your student sound out ALL CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant)  words.
      **Help then find words within words when they get to a word that “looks long and scary.”
      **They NEED/SHOULD BE able to recognize and read words with vowel teams /ee/, /ea/, /oa/, and /ai/ since we have been working on them since November. Ask them what the rule is when they get to a word that has a vowel team in it.  Our chant: When vowel teams go a walking, the first one does the talking.
     **They should be getting very familiar with CVCe words too! We call them “Tickle E Words.” Have your student tell you why.
Knowing the strategies/rules to read basic words helps students reading fluency and comprehension.

 



5. Phonics and High Frequency Words
Yes, we are going to practice the same words and sentence again. Last week was very busy and challenging. Its was another short week  filled with LOTS of testing, and crazy weather.  I just felt that the kiddos needed another week to work on them…

High Frequency Words
Here is the link to print our weekly spelling homework form:  New Weekly Spelling Homework **Remember if you choose  not to print off and use this form you need to make sure your student is writing each word and the sentence daily on paper, and that all writing is nice and  neat as well as organized like the form, and that the papers get turned in on Friday for credit.
Our spelling test will be Friday, November 9th.

NEW WORDS:
these
time
many
then
no
PHONICS FOCUS WORDS:
jig
not
pat
SENTENCE:
I pat the cat then do a jig.

The spelling words with sentence are worth 1 points/day this week. The spelling test will be given Friday.
***Your student needs to write EACH SPELLING WORD ONCE in the 1st 5 boxes and the 3 Phonics words in the following 3 boxes. There should be plenty of space to write the sentence once on the 2 lines provided at the bottom of each page on the form.
**I have noticed that there have been students that aren’t following these required guidelines and are therefore NOT GETTING FULL CREDIT!