First Grade Home to School Connections

             Week of March 27^th

      ^{FIRST GRADE is Performing at the SPRING} 

             ^{Concert with Mrs. Barrette}             

    at the Smithfield High School Tuesday, March 28^th at 6:00

            FUNDATIONS....Unit 10…Closed Syllables that have five sounds.

These are words that usually have a blend (  two consonants each with their own sound) at the beginning of a word and a blend at  the end of a word.  The word slump is an example. The sl is the blend at the beginning and mp is a blend at the end of the word. The suffix s will also be added.

Essential Question:  What is a closed syllable?

1.   Closed syllables can only have one vowel.

2.   The vowel is followed by one or more consonants (closed in)

3.   The vowel sound is short.  To indicate the short vowel, the vowel is marked with a breve. 

Essential Question:  What is a vowel team?

What is a closed syllable?  What is the magic “e” rule?

MY MATH………Practice Math Facts….Timed or Untimed   Fact Dash - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

·      https://www.mhschool.com/math/2009/ca/assets/factdash.html

·      Chapter 6 Adding and Subtracting Two Digit Numbers

·      Essential Question: How do you add and subtract two digit numbers?

·      All the vocabulary in this chapter are review words

New Foss Science Kit …….. Plants and Animals Science

What happens to rye grass and alfalfa seeds in moist soil?

Investigation 1: Grass and Grain Seeds

Reading Workshop Strategy.......Schema......Making Connections

            Text to Self   Text to Text  Text to World