New phonics...

Welcome back!

It's great to see everyone back at school and ready to learn. Attendance has been at its best these past weeks, and we are happy to be back and continue with the great things that we are doing in the classroom.

Last week, we focused on revision. This week we started with new things, such as energy, the seasons, measurement and estimations.

The spelling words this week end in -ot

POT, ROT, LOT, HOT, DOT, GOT, NOT, and COT

Practice them at home!

In, on, under....

Weekly letter

Song about the number 12

Have a great weekend!

Do YOU have an iPad or an iPhone???

Check out these free apps!!!

Try these FREE apps for the iPhone and iPad to practice first grade skills! 

Hungry Fish: a math game to practice addition. 

 

 

ABC Alphabet Phonics: students choose the letter that the iPad says. You can change the settings to see lowercase letters and to see more letters as students improve. 

 

 

Alphabet Tracing: Students practice writing upper and lower case letters, and numbers too!

Have fun!!

Weekly parent letter

Here is what we are working on this week :)

New!!! 3D shapes -

The sphere is the first 3D shape we will discuss. Here is a picture of a sphere. Find objects around the house that are spheres.

This is a sphere.

The sphere, the cylinder and the cube

Sight words

Here is a list of words that your child should practice reading at home every day!! They should be able to recognize and read all these words by the end of the term.

is
at
in

was

said

his

that

she
the
he
I
it

You can play a game and write these words on little pieces of paper and have your child pick one at a time and read it out loud. Save these flash cards and practice every day! We will be adding more words soon!
 

Shukran!

Thank you to all the parents who came to the parent-teacher conferences today. It was a pleasure seeing so many of you!

Numbers and counting

Many children learn the numbers by heart. They can count to 30, 40 and even higher perfectly. But recognizing these numbers is the challenge. When you practice numbers and counting with your children at home, make sure to mix up the numbers and you can also reverse roles where you say a number and your child has to write down this number. If your daughter has mastered this, start to count backwards (20, 19, 18, ....) and also by two (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, .....).You will see, it is not always easy! Good luck!

English alphabet and sounds

This is a video that we listen to in the classroom and the girls love it. Each letter in the English alphabet produces a specific sound. Practice these sounds with your children and they will read in no time! Make sure they know the difference between the name of the letter and the sound this letter makes. Have fun!

Ps. Please note that the video did not include the letter Q. This letter has the same sound as C and K.

As-salam alaykum (السلام عليكم)

Hello and welcome to the Grade One blog at Al Asalah school. This page will keep you posted as to what is going on in the classroom and offer you links and suggestions to help your child achieve the highest success in English, Mathematics, Science and much more. Please contact me if you have any questions using the comment option below. Thank you!

Miss Alina