SPELLING WORDS ARE NOW ON THE CLASSROOM BLOG

SPELLING WORDS 

Please reference our classroom blog for your student's 

SPELLING WORDS

SIGHT WORDS

BONUS WORDS

Feel free to visit the following website for all sight words used in First Grade:

http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch.htm

Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words

and

away

big

blue

can

come

down

find

for

funny

go

help

here

I

in

is

it

jump

little

look

make

me

my

not

one

play

red

run

said

see

the

three

to

two

up

we

where

yellow

you

Dolch Primer Sight Words:

all

am

are

at

ate

be

black

brown

but

came

did

do

eat

four

get

good

have

he

into

like

must

new

no

now

on

our

out

please

pretty

ran

ride

saw

say

she

so

soon

that

there

they

this

too

under

want

was

well

went

what

white

who

will

with

yes

Dolch First Grade Sight Words:

after

again

an

any

ask

as

by

could

every

fly

from

give

going

had

has

her

him

his

how

just

know

let

live

may

of

old

once

open

over

put

round

some

stop

take

thank

them

then

think

walk

were

when

We will be using the Spelling Connections Manuel to generate our First Grade Spelling List.

These Spelling Lists are aligned with our Phonics Lessons.

We will start out with Pre-primer and Primer Sight Words as a review and then move on to First and Second Grade Sight Words.

Our Bonus Words will be generated from a list of 95 COMMON NOUNS and the THIRD GRADE SIGHT WORD LISTS on the above website.

Dolch Word List - 95 Nouns

apple 

baby 

back 

ball 

bear 

bed 

bell 

bird 

birthday 

boat 

box 

boy 

bread 

brother 

cake 

car 

cat 

chair 

chicken 

children 

Christmas 

coat 

corn 

cow 

day 

dog 

doll 

door 

duck 

egg 

eye 

farm 

farmer 

father 

feet 

fire 

fish 

floor 

flower 

game 

garden 

girl 

good-bye 

grass 

ground 

hand 

head 

hill 

home 

horse 

house 

kitty 

leg 

letter 

man 

men 

milk 

money 

morning 

mother 

name 

nest 

night 

paper 

party 

picture 

pig 

rabbit 

rain 

ring 

robin 

Santa Claus 

school 

seed 

sheep 

shoe 

sister 

snow 

song 

squirrel 

stick 

street 

sun 

table 

thing 

time 

top 

toy 

tree 

watch 

water 

way 

wind 

window 

wood 

Dolch Third Grade Sight Words

about

better

bring

carry

clean

cut

done

draw

drink

eight

fall

far

full

got

grow

hold

hot

hurt

if

keep

kind

laugh

light

long

much

myself

never

only

own

pick

When does Homework begin?

Nightly Homework Starts, Monday 9/8

Homework will be assigned MONDAY - THURSDAY:

Use your child's FLUENCY FOLDER along with the book, poem(s), or reading passage sent home in your child's Take Home Folder Nightly.

Your reading need not exceed 15 minutes.

Your child will begin to use their SCHOOL PLANNERS on Monday, 9/8.

Students will write their weekly spelling words in their SCHOOL PLANNERS.

Students will need to do the following with their SPELLING WORDS:

MONDAY:  Pre-test Words

TUESDAY:  Write MISSED WORD(S) ONLY with crayons

WEDNESDAY:  Spell MISSED WORDS ONLY out loud using a funny voice (be silly with it)

THURSDAY:  Play Hangman with MISSED WORDS ONLY

Please begin to use XtraMath at home on Monday, 9/8.

Students will need to do ONE ROUND of XtraMath nightly.

I am a firm believer that family time is valuable.  The lessons learned at home are as important (if not more important) than those learned at school.  As a result, my goal is to allow as much family time as possible after your child returns home from a day at school.  To this end, I would like all of my students to spend no more than 30 minutes a day on homework.

PROJECTS WILL CONSUME MORE TIME and will only be assigned on a monthly basis.

Xtra Math starts Monday, September 8th

We are using a web-based program called XtraMath to increase speed and accuracy in arithmetic.

  

Your child will be expected to do one (1) round of XtraMath daily for Math Homework.

You will know when one round has been completed because XtraMath will have a message appear on the screen "YOU ARE DONE".

Go to xtramath.org and watch the short "overview" and "Getting Started" videos.

Click Enroll.  You will be asked for a student enrollment code.

Your student will be coming home with their enrollment code on Tuesday and for your reference is listed below.

Please begin XtraMath Homework on

Monday, September 8th

After this quick process, your child will be able to do XtraMath from home.  Please complete the steps on the flyer even if your student has done XtraMath in the past.  This will ensure that existing accounts are linked to my classroom.

The following are our classroom codes:

Abbya:  RBMV-ZDQR-8396

Carsonw: W4E4-G2JE-8958

Colet: CEH5-5MVC-7250

Drakeh: 255U-CHAK-0742

Isabelleb: YJ93-DL43-7028

Juliets: 8UHL-5JDB-6355

Koltonm: M5Y8-ML56-7535

Paisleyb: SPUL-LLKL-0675

Savannahp: 5PS7-CJ5C4982

Solomonk: 5YQT-XLML-5676

What do I need to know about the FANTASTIC FIRST GRADERS classroom blog?

Welcome to your students classroom blog:

www.fantasticfirstgradersatarches.blogspot.com

Please take a moment to look around this BLOG so you can be familiar with how to locate:

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS, BONUS WORDS, SIGHT WORDS

LANGUAGE ARTS

MATH

SCIENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES

WRITERS WORKSHOP

AUTHOR STUDY

GRAMMAR

and so much more

I will post on our classroom blog at least weekly.  When I post an email is automatically generated to you so you won't ever miss a posting.

Please use this classroom blog as a resource if you are ever out of town or your child is sick for an extended period of time.

All you need to know about what is happening in your child's classroom will be found on this blog.

PLEASE NOTE:

This email is generated from an email that I DO NOT use: familyfun831@gmail.com

Please do not respond to this email.

I DO NOT CHECK THIS EMAIL.

I apologize if this causes some confusion.

The only purpose for this email was to set up my blog.

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THANK YOU!