Welcome to First Grade!

Tuesday, April 7th
First Grade Work from Home

Spelling - Bossy R
*this week is a review of all the Bossy R's - ar, er, ir, ur, or
*watch "Bossy R Music Video" (The Electric Company) and "Look Out for Bossy R/Fun Phonics Song for Kids" (Jack Hartmann on YouTube
*read my riddles (send on Remind) and solve them...write the answers in your Spelling Journal...write date and label Spelling Riddles

Writing
*write a Dear First Grade Journal...if you would like to share on FlipGrid you can share under Dear First Grade videos
 
Reading
*this week we will focus on all aspects of Easter
*listen to "The Easter Bunny's Assistant by Jan Thomas" (StoryTime at Awnie's House) on YouTube and/or "How to Catch the Easter Bunny by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton (PV Storytime) on YouTube
*print out "What's in My Egg?" sheet (on Remind)...put something special inside your egg...write 3 clues...share your clues on FlipGrid...wait a minute so we can guess and open your egg and show us your surprise inside

*this week we will learn about PRONOUNS 
*listen to song "Pronoun SchoolHouse Rock" on YouTube
*complete Pronoun worksheet (on Remind)

Math
*look at "Eggs-a-Hatchin" paper (sent on Remind) and use the pictures to help fill out graph worksheet

Religion
*this week will be reading Benjamin's Box
Day 1 - straw for the manager and donkey/donkey fur
Day 2 - coins and cup
Day 3 - praying hands and leather strip
Day 4 - thorn and nails
Day 5 - dice/stone and spear
Day 6 - piece of white cloth
Day 7 - stone
*this is an Easter story about a very special boy, he lives in Jesus' time...he has a very special box and everytime something happens in Jesus' life Benjamin finds something to put it in his box that will remind him of Jesus and his life
*help your child find a box/bag/egg carton for this activity...each day will read a page or two in the story (will send out on Remind for you to read to your child)...the children will be like Benjamin and put objects in their box...they can draw and cut out the object, make object out of construction paper, legos, or even find a tiny toy that would be similar to put in their own box
*by the end of the story the children will have their very own box which will help retell Jesus' story...please keep the pieces in the box to share at the end of the story with everyone

Please complete these activities each day...do not need to do any daily Homework activities

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THIS WEEK IN FIRST GRADE
ELA Journeys - Unit 5
Theme - Easter 
Reading - 
Skills - 
Strategy - 
Spelling -  Bossy R words (please check spelling link)
Phonics -  Bossy R words 
Grammar - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Subjects and Predicates, Plurals, Possessives, Using a, an, the, Proper Nouns, Contractions, adding -er, -est
Writing - Sentences, Punctuation (periods, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, apostrophe), Conjunctions, Compound Words, Prepositions, Pronouns   
Math - Unit 12
Religion - Easter/Benjamin's Box
Social Studies/Science - Family