Spelling and Language Arts Assignments

First Grade

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Phonogram Assignment: Continue to drill the phonograms a through z, sh, th, oo, ee, er, oy, oi, ch, ow, ou, ay, ai, ea, or, ui, ew, ng, ar, wh, aw, au, ck, oe, oa, ed, ur, ir, wor, ear, igh, ie, tch, si, ci, ti, eigh, ei ey, ph, ough and introduce dge and ey. 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.

Spelling Assignment:

1) Live Oak Spelling rules: Review orally 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, the final silent E’s., 8, 17, 18, 19, 25 and 29. We are learning concepts not rule numbers.

2) Review words: 151-160 on p.20 in H-1.

Language Arts Assignment:

¨ Literature: Read aloud to your child from classical literature for 30 minutes.

¨ Penmanship: Copybook 1; complete p. 37 and may color p.36.

Optional: Teach capital letter P on page of Printing Fun booklet.

¨ Reading: First Steps: Continue to read a new story each day. Do not tell the student the word prior to her sounding the word out.

¨ 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. 4. Make 3X5 cards for newly assigned spelling words.

¨ Poetry assignment: Learn the second stanza of Mary’s Lamb.

¨ Grammar assignment: Wise: review list 1, 2, 3 orally from lesson 46-48.

¨ 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.

Friday, March 3, 2006

Please repeat spelling assignment described above and follow step 1 and 2 previously explained.

Phonogram Assignment: Continue to drill the phonograms a through z, sh, th, oo, ee, er, oy, oi, ch, ow, ou, ay, ai, ea, or, ui, ew, ng, ar, wh, aw, au,ck, oe, oa, ed, ur, ir , wor, ear, igh, ie, tch, si, ci, ti, eigh, ei, ey, ph, ough, dge, ey, and introduce gn and kn. Use the previous two methods listed above.

Spelling Assignment:

¨ Review Live Oak Spelling rules: Review orally 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, the final silent E’s., 8, 17, 18, 19, 25 and 29. We are learning concepts not rule numbers.

¨ Review Spelling Words 161-170 on p. 22 section H-2.

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. 39 and may color p.38.

Optional: Teach capital letter Q of Printing Fun booklet.

¨ Reading: First Steps, continue to read next story each day.

¨ 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: Memorize the second stanza of Mary’s Lamb.

¨ Grammar: Wise, lesson 51 read story to student and write summary on paper.

Review chants 3 times .

Monday, March 6, 2006

Phonogram Assignment: Drill all 70 phonograms. Congratulations in learning all 70 phonograms. Use the previous two methods listed above.

Spelling Assignment: Take spelling test on words 151-170. Please turn in Tuesday via orange folder.

Live Oak Spelling rules: Review orally 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, the final silent E’s., 8, 17, 18, 19, 25 and 29. We are learning concepts not rule numbers.

Language Arts Assignment

¨ Literature: Read aloud to your child from quality literature for at least 30 minutes per day.

¨ Optional: Have child draw the main character on the blank 3 X 5 card given in orange folder. Return via the orange folder.

¨ Penmanship: Copybook 1, complete p. 41, may color p.40 .

Optional: Teach capital letter R of Printing Fun booklet.

¨ Reading: First Steps, continue to read next story each day.

¨ 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: Learn the third stanza of poem Mary’s Lamb.

¨ Grammar: Complete Wise Lesson 51: draw picture in area on summary paper. Review noun and pronoun chant 3 times