Spelling and Language Arts Assignments
First Grade
Phonogram Assignment: Continue
to drill all 70 phonograms and see if
you can do them in 90 seconds or less! Please focus on: ng, ee, oo, ay, ti, ci, si, ow, er, ar, ch, ew,
ck, ea, or, ed, igh, ie, dge, wr. Use the following two
methods:
1)
The
parent should show the student each phonogram card, and the student should
pronounce all the sounds that phonogram makes.
Make certain that he or she says the sounds exactly as indicated on the
back of the phonogram cards. Parents may
prompt the student using the instructions on the back of the cards if
necessary. Repeat this drill with the
phonograms needing prompting.
2)
The
parent should dictate the sounds each phonogram makes and the student should
write the phonograms neatly, in manuscript, using only lower-case letters. Please
continue to dictate A-Z since letter reversals occur at times. A good time to practice cursive that was
introduced last week!
Spelling
Assignment:
1) Please
review previous weeks words and any missed words.
2) Live Oak Spelling rules:
Review orally 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 28 and 29. We will introduce rule 27. We are
learning concepts not rule numbers.
3) Review spelling words: I-3 words # 231-240 on p. 30. & ten
review words.
Language Arts Assignment:
¨ Literature: Read aloud to your child from
classical literature for 30 minutes.
¨ Penmanship: Copybook 1; complete p. 65 and may color p.64.
Optional:
teach cursive letter s using Abeka handouts and guides. Review a, e, i, and o.
¨
¨ Optional: 1. Use
the 3X5 spelling cards to make up compound words. 2. If student is able to read independently,
have her read aloud spelling cards written on 3 X 5 cards and organize a
complete sentence using them. 3. Dictate a simple sentence.
¨ 4. Make 3X5 cards for newly assigned spelling words.
¨
Poetry: Review previous poems and learn
second stanza of My
Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson.
¨
Grammar assignment Wise: Lesson 67
¨
Noun chants:
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing
or idea.
A common
noun is the name of any person, place, thing, or idea.
A proper noun is the name of a particular
person, place or thing.
(A proper noun always starts with a capital
letter.)
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of
a noun.
A verb is a word that shows action
Please repeat spelling assignment described above and follow step 1 and 2 previously explained.
Phonogram Assignment: Continue
to drill all 70 phonograms! !
Please focus on ng, er,ir,
Spelling Assignment:
¨ Review
Live Oak Spelling rules: Review
orally 2, 3, 4, 7, 12,17, 18, 19, 25, 28, and 29. We are learning concepts not rule
numbers.
¨ Review Spelling Words I- 3 # 231-240. on P. 30. & ten review words.
Language Arts Assignment
¨ Literature: Read aloud to your child from
classical literature for 30 minutes.
Have child draw the main character on 3 X 5 card
given in orange folder.
¨
Penmanship: Copybook
1; complete p. 67 and may color p.66.
Optional: Teach cursive letter t using Abeka handouts. Review a, e, i, and o.
¨
¨ Optional:
1. Use the 3X5 spelling cards to
play bingo. 2. If student is able to read independently,
have her read aloud spelling cards written on 3 X 5 cards and organize a
complete sentence using them. 3. Dictate a simple sentence using spelling
words. Please emphasize capital letters
and punctuation.
¨ Please continue to make cards for new words as they are assigned.
¨
Poetry: Review previous poems and learn the second stanza of My Shadow.
¨
Grammar: Wise: Lesson 69.
¨
Practice writing the abbreviation: Mr. and Mrs.
¨
Review chants
3 times,
introducing new verb chant.
Phonogram Assignment: Continue
to drill all 70 phonograms. Please
focus on ng, er,ir,
Spelling Assignment: Take spelling test on words 231-240 on p.
30 section I-3 Please turn in Tuesday via
orange folder.
Live Oak Spelling rules: Review orally 2, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 17, 18,
19, 25, 28 and
29. We are learning concepts not rule numbers.
Language Arts Assignment
¨ Literature: Read aloud from quality
literature to child for at least 30 minutes.
¨ Optional: Have child draw the main character on the blank
3 X 5 card given in orange folder. Return via the orange folder. ( Mrs. Cressy
will do this)
¨ Penmanship: Copybook 1, complete p. 68, may color p. 67.
Optional: Teach cursive v using Abeka handout. Review a,
e, i, and o.
¨
¨ Optional: 1. Use the 3X5 spelling cards to play bingo. 2. If student is able to read independently, have her read aloud spelling cards written on 3 X 5 cards and organize a complete sentence using them.
¨
Poetry: Review previous poems and learn
second stanza of My Shadow.
¨
Grammar Wise: Lesson 70
¨
Review noun, pronoun, and verb chant.