FYI: Happy New Year! I am proud to announce that many of our students are starting the new year off being able to read all or many of the rainbow words (sight words) for first grade! However, I am finding that many of the students are not spelling these words correctly in their writing. If your child has not received all of the rainbow words to practice, I have now included them into their homework folders. Please have your child practice recognizing all of the rainbow words by the end of the school year if he/she is currently unable to do so. I suggest focusing on 5 words each week. If your child is currently able to read all of the first grade rainbow words, please see the two websites below for additional practice.
At this point in the school year, it is very important that your child spell these words correctly in his/her writing. For this reason, I am going to begin a word wall challenge each Friday. I will challenge the students on one color list each week. This challenge will be sent home for you to review with your child. Please practice spelling the words that your child has difficulty with on each challenge.
The order of the challenge will be as follows:
Week 1-Red Week 2-Orange
Week 3-Yellow Week 4-Green
Week 5-Blue Week 6-Purple
Week 7-Pink Week 8-Turquoise
*Once we have had a challenge on all 8 lists, we will start back over with the red list and move to orange, yellow, green, etc. again.
Websites for additional practice:
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/languagearts/dolch-sight-words/
http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch.htm
