Day 1 TESTING

 First Grade - Day 1

Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you to click on. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell you to. DO NOT click on any advertisements or games. DO NOT click on anything that takes you to a different website. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and you should be right back here for the next lesson. Okay?
*Following Directions — I write a lot of directions on here. Read them carefully and follow ALL of them. If you don’t understand, ask for help.
An important reminder as you are beginning the year…If you you click on a link and the link is not working please do not just skip it or find something similar to use, let your parent know so that we can get this fixed right away for you and for other users.
 
Reading on Your Own (Parents: Please see the note in number 1.)

1. TO DO - Read The Tale of Jolly Robin chapter 1.            NOTE: The transition to chapter books can be hard. Your child should be able to read it, but the size of the reading may feel like too much. If your child isn’t feeling up to reading the chapter, have him read aloud a sentence and then you read aloud a sentence. When you feel ready, move to reading a paragraph aloud at a time. Then you could read the first half of the story and your child can finish it. Then move to letting your child read the whole thing alone. It would be good for your child to read aloud to you or to someone else for the reading assignments until your child is feeling fluent and competent reading novels.
2. TO DO - Reading Journal: Write the title and author of the book.  Also write one sentence about your favorite part of the story so far.   
3. TO DO - Answer this question: What does the Roman Numeral for number 1 look like? If you can’t remember, look at the number at the beginning of chapter 1. Practice writing the Roman Numeral 1 in your Reading Journal.

Math

1. TO DO - Counting to 20
2. TO DO - Play Snakes and Ladders  You can play alone or with someone.  (This game requires flash player. Check the troubleshooting guide if you are having trouble.)

English*  (For the first two weeks, the student needs someone to read to them and help them go through the English curriculum.)

 Rhyme — Long A Sound

1. TO DO - Look at the picture on the right side of this page. It’s the first poem in a book called, Abroad. What do you see happening in the picture?
2. TO DO - Have a parent or older sibling read the poem to you. What happened during the poem?
3. TO DO - Did you hear words rhyme in the poem? Read the first two lines again. Do you hear “go” rhyme with “below”? Now ask nicely to have the whole poem read to you again. This time listen for two rhyming words with A sounds. For example, the word day has an A sound. We call it the long A sound. Okay, listen close.
4. TO DO - What two long A sound words rhymed in the poem?
5. TO DO - *Print out this worksheet and fill in the long A sound rhyming words. (Just print out page one! Page two has a mistake!)