Week of April 20th-24th
April 23rd: Field Trip to Denver Museum of Nature and Science!
April 23rd: Dress of choice (Please wear your fun run shirts and any bottom for the field trip)
April 24th: No School (Teacher Work Day)
May 8th: Spirit Wear Day
May 22nd: Dress of Choice and last day of school (Dismissal 11:30)
Knowledge/Skills (Reading and Writing): Skills Unit 6
In this unit students will continue the work they began in the last unit by introducing or reviewing a number of spelling alternatives for consonant sounds.
Here are the sounds and spellings that are either reviewed or introduced in this unit:
- /s/ spelled ‘s,’ ‘ss’ (review); ‘c,’ ‘ce,’ and ‘se’ (new)
- /z/ spelled ‘z’, ‘s’, ‘zz’ (review)
- /m/ spelled ‘m’ and ‘mm’ (review)
- /n/ spelled ‘n’, ‘nn’ (review), and ‘kn’ (new)
- /ng/ spelled ‘ng’ (review) and ‘n’ (new)
- /w/ spelled ‘w’ (review) and ‘wh’ (new)
Note that, as was the case in the last unit, several of the spellings covered in this unit are review items. There is actually relatively little new code knowledge taught in this unit.
Note also that the sounds have once again been arranged by place of articulation so that the sister sounds /s/ and /z/ are taught consecutively and the three nasal sounds (/m/, /n/, /ng/) are taught in close succession. This may be helpful because these are the sounds students are most likely to confuse.
In this unit students will also learn that the spelling ‘c’ stands for /k/ as in cat or /s/ as in cent, and the spelling ‘n’ stands for /n/ as in nap or /ng/ as in pink. Both ‘c’ and ‘n’ are tricky spellings because they stand for more than one sound.
Spelling Words: No words this week
First Grade Daily Schedule
