Kindergarten
The letters for this week are o, g, d, and s. Students will practice keyword sounds: o-octopus-/o/, g-game-/g/, d-dog-/d/, & s-snake-/s/. They will use magnetic letters to match letters to their sounds. They will use dry-erase boards to practice writing this weeks letters as well as the letters learned thus far. Students will also continue to learn the elements of a sentence: capitals at the beginning, periods at the end, and space between each word. Students will practice one-to-one matching by using their fingers to point under each word in a sentence. On Friday, students will listen to a story and watch the story be performed to help them visualize and recall what happened in the story.
1st Grade
Students will begin Unit 8. They will learn the difference between a blend and a digraph. A digraph has two letters that make one sound such as -sh and a blend has two letters that make their own sounds such as -s & -l /sl/. The trick words for this week are some, could, and want. Students will also read a story and will identify blends, digraphs, and trick words within the story.
2nd Grade
Students will continue to explore fiction stories and work on developing creative ideas for their own fiction stories. They will work together to contribute to a shared story and will write their own endings to stories. They will also practice spelling words by syllables instead of individual sounds. For example, forest can be sounded out by spelling /for/ then /est/. This is a more efficient way for students who learned basic phonics to approximate the spelling of longer words.
