A New Week and Number Stories

This week our wow word is elated.  We had lots of great examples of times we have been elated in our lives!  We are working on the short "a" word family and you will see a SWR (Spelling, Writing, Reading) sheet in your child's folder.  Practice reading and writing those words with them at home and look for words that start with f, m, and c.  Any practice with these words will be great!


In math we are learning about number stories.  We practiced addition and subtraction number stories and represented those stories on our white boards. We also have been working so hard on xtramath!  

During reading we learned to look at the entire word we're reading.  We realized that if we can read "look" we can also read "looks" and "looking".  We practiced reading the entire word and finding parts of the word we know. 


We continued to sound out tricky words in writing. This first grader spelled "Maple Festival" by using a strategy we learned! Other first graders remembered to use the word wall for other words.