!st day of 1st grade!

Skills Block

We have been reviewing Kindergarten skills for the past 2 1/2 weeks of first grade. Please review these at home as well. We have been talking about blends, word families, sight words, vowels and text talk vocabulary. I give them a blend...for example "st" and have them come up with as many words as they can that have that blend. Or you could have them look in books for that blend!
Also, it is very important to build up your childs reading fluency this year. They should be reading their book in a bag at least twice a night, if not more! I have been testing students this week and see that over the summer, some of them have been reading slower that last year! Please make sure that you are having them read to you every night!
We are going to have a great year!