In recent weeks, Summit first graders have begun completing the daily math and language review as part of their morning work routine. While called the daily review, it serves as both a preview and review of skills. Students work to complete the daily review individually, and then, most days, we check our work as a group during our morning meeting. I periodically review work individually to ensure students are understanding content, completing work, and making necessary corrections.
Throughout the school year, the daily language review will address each of the following skills: grammar, comprehension, vocabulary, word study, reference skills, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. The daily math review will address number sense, computation, patterns, geometry, measurement, and data. Skills specific to this week are included below.
Language Skills
- language use
- parts of speech
- types of sentences
- analogies
- categorizing
- cause and effect relationships
- consonant vowel sounds
- rhyming
- alphabetical order
- capitalization (beginning of sentence, books, titles of people, proper nouns)
- punctuation (ending marks, contractions, possessives)
- double negatives
- pronouns
- verb forms
Math Skills
- addition and subtraction facts
- column addition
- solving word problems
- reading and writing numerals and words
- skip counting
- greater than/less than
- number relationships
- factions
- shapes
- money
- tally marks
