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First Grade slides spring 2021

Here are the slides to help guide you through the work you may be missing this week while you are out.

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March 1st - 5th, 2021

Math

This week we are learning how to identify and add coins. Since this week is an introduction we will not be using our math book. If you are out, your teacher will give you the paper copies of the items we are doing this week.

reading

Monday - Thursday: Review and complete the tasks on the next 3 slides. Those 3 slides need to be reviewed and completed each day Monday through Thursday to help prepare for the reading test on this week’s skills.

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Friday: Reading test day. You will make up the test once you return to school.

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Science and social studies skills are embedded within the reading.

There are not separate slides for science and social studies.

Stories for the Week:

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• We are repeating the stories from last week.

• Read “A Lost Button” Pg 140-154

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• Read “Sort It Out” Pg 156-161

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• Your child can also go to the McGraw Hill app in classlink or go to the McGraw Hill website and login. Click on read and these stories should be available for them. They can have the story read to them. There are also games and vocabulary activities for them to work on.

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Reading

McGraw Hill / Wonders

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You need

The Wonders Hardback Reader.

• Read “A Barn Full of Hats” Pg 12-21 in the Unit 5 Reading & Writing Companion

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• Use your yellow crayon and color all the words with combination ar sounds Examples: barn, farm, smart, marched, yarn, farmer, large, Clark, barnyard

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• Circle words with suffix - ed Examples: opened, asked, pulled, clucked, marched, grunted, dragged, sighed

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• Complete the items on the left under “Shared Read” as you read each page.

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Reading

This is what the items under “shared read” look like in the reading/writing companion book.

McGraw Hill Reading/Writing Companion

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High frequency words for the week:

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• four, large, none, only, put, round

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Vocabulary words for the week:

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• distinguish, classify, organize, entire, startled, trouble, whole

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• Your child should also go to the McGraw Hill app in classlink. Click on “Words to Know”

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Reading

McGraw Hill / Wonders

• Mrs. Harper’s class has different phonics slides than Mrs. Martinez, Mrs. Driskill, or Mrs. Mahana’s class.

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• Please pay close attention to the next several slides, so you do the correct phonics work. Your teacher’s name is at the top of the phonics slides you need to do.

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Phonics

Saxon Phonics

Phonics

Mrs. Harper’s Class

Mrs. Harper’s Class your

phonics work starts here. Please see the next 3 slides.

Phonics

Phonics videos and assignments are posted in Seesaw each day. Go complete your phonics work in Seesaw.

Mrs. Harper’s Class

• New spelling words for the week: chart, fort, bird, shirt, hurt, under, farm, north, storm, burn, come, some

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• New dictation sentences for the week:

1. The red bird was hurt.

2. Come to the fort on the north side.

3. The storm hit her farm.

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• Please practice writing these each day.

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Phonics

Mrs. Harper’s Class

• Our new sight word(s) for this week:

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• Practice reading sight words in your purple phonics folder or green go home folder each day. This week please focus on words #1-30, students will be tested on #1-30 this week or when we return from break.

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Phonics

Practice spelling/writing: come, some

Mrs. Harper’s Class

Phonics

Harper’s Class

Mrs. Harper’s Class your

phonics work ends here.

Phonics

Mrs. Martinez, Mrs. Mahana, and Mrs. Driskill’s Class your

phonics work starts here. Please see the next 4 slides.

Driskill, Mahana, Martinez

Phonics

Phonics video and assignment are posted in Seesaw each day.

Driskill, Mahana, Martinez

• New spelling words for the week: off, boy, hiding, turtle, disturb, survive, acorn, Friday, elbow, hurt, many, any

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• New dictation sentences for the week:

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1. Curt burned his hand on the hot car.

2. The burn hurt and felt like fire.

3. My cat had five kittens on my birthday.

4. The first ones were girls and the rest boys.

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• New sight words: America, animal, change, danger, strange, stranger

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Phonics

Driskill, Mahana, Martinez

Word Work: Practice writing your spelling words and sentences each day. You can do any of the following that are in your word work packet to practice. Pick one each day.

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• Trace and write 2 X
• Rainbow write
• ABC order
• You can also practice writing

them in your writing journal.

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Phonics

Driskill, Mahana, Martinez

Phonics

Mrs. Martinez, Mrs. Mahana, and Mrs. Driskill’s Class your phonics work ends here.

Driskill, Mahana, Martinez

Extra

The next few slides have login information for:

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• Epic- stories your child can read

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• XtraMath - practice math facts

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• Teach Your Monster to Read - practice phonics skills

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These are extra items your child may work on. This is not required.

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• You can use Epic to read stories.

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• Make sure you are logged into classlink, then go find the Epic app

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Step 1: Click on the Epic App

Step 2: Click login at the top

Step 3: Click students and educators

Step 4: Enter your class code and hit GO!

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Epic on classlink

Class Codes Driskill: ewp5133 Harper: tym1131 Mahana: lqz3069 Martinez: kvl9099

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• You can use Epic to read stories.

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• Open the Epic app on your ipad.

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• If the Epic app is not on the ipad, go click self serve on your ipad and tell Epic to install.

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Step 1: Click on the Epic App

Step 2: Click login at the top

Step 3: Click students and educators

Step 4: Enter your class code and hit GO!

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Epic app on the ipad

Class Codes Driskill: ewp5133 Harper: tym1131 Mahana: lqz3069 Martinez: kvl9099

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• This app is in classlink

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• Please log into classlink and find the xtramath icon

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Step 1: Click sign in up in the right corner

Step 2: Click the green “students” tab

Step3: Enter your child’s teacher’s email

Step4: Enter your child’s first name

Step 5: Enter the last four numbers of your child’s student ID #

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Xtra math app

Teacher Emails:

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Sharesa Driskill - sdriskill@gunterisd.org

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Lindsay Harper - lharper@gunterisd.org

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Jackie Mahana - jmahana@gunterisd.org

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Joanna Martinez - jmartinez@gunterisd.org

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Using a school issued ipad only!

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• Go to the self serve icon on your school issued ipad.

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• Find the teach monster icon and tell it to install

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• Open the app once it has loaded.

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Click “Log in” on the bottom right corner

Player name: first name only

Password: last four numbers of your student ID #

Star Code: Use your teacher’s code

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Teach Monster APP

Teacher/Star Codes:

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Driskill: 6251816

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Harper: 4805785

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Mahana: 6251818

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Martinez: 6294821

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Using a Web Browser

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• If you are not using a school issued ipad please click on your teacher’s name to go to the website to login.

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• You must click on the correct teacher or the login will not work.

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• Player name: first name
• Password: last four numbers of your student ID #
• The star box should already have a number in it.

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Teach Monster - using a web browser

Click on your Teacher

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Driskill Harper

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Mahana Martinez

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You Did it!

You completed your work for today. We can’t wait to have you back in the classroom.