For the week of 9/11/2017

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: “The Big Blue Ox” (Fiction Text) We will work on describing important parts of a story, including the characters, setting, and a major event. 

Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.  These books are from guided reading, and it is important for your child to practice rereading them at home.  Please return “the book in a bag” the next day.  Thank you!!

Writing: We will be continuing writing workshop and brainstorming small moments.  Students will work on writing about personal “small moments” as we continue our personal narrative writing unit. The students are learning how to write a story across pages with an introduction, details, and ending. They have learned how to plan before writing, and we are focusing on revising by adding detailed sentences.  This week, we will focus on adding details that make our stories ‘come to life’.  Students will also reread their writing to find parts to edit.  We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, spelling, and end marks through mini-lessons.  While the students write, I will conference with the children every week to reinforce the application of what we are learning.  

Grammar: We will continue to review nouns and introduce verbs.  We will practice identifying both nouns and verbs in a sentence.

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words:  as     with   his   they    I

Short vowel word families will be our focus for this quarter. Word families share the same vowels/patterns and rhyming words. We are working on short vowel “o”.

Feature/Pattern of the week: Word Families -  op     ot    og 

Ex: hop, pop, lot, jot, dog, frog

Math: Our math lessons each day will include computational fluency, fact fluency, and core math instruction focused on the first grade common core math standards. Computational fluency will help the students to use the most effective and efficient strategies. Fact Fluency is working with both addition and subtraction facts within 10. By the end of the school year, one goal is for students to complete 22 addition facts in one minute and 22 subtraction facts in one minute. Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core. We are also working on place value- that a number is made up of tens and ones.  The kids then use their knowledge of tens and ones when adding and subtracting, while using different materials to solve. Students will also build and decompose two-digit numbers.  We will continue to talk about story problems, and learn about a number sentence, answer, and labeling an answer.

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: The Sun
Social Studies: How to be a good Craddock citizen and following school rules.

Extras:

-Please make sure you are sending your child with a peanut free, non-messy snack for the am.

- Homework: Please continue your homework logs.  The homework log can be returned at the end of each month. There are ideas for how to practice with homework on the back of the log. J Thank you for your home support!

- Behavior Communication Chart:  Please keep your child’s chart in their take home folder.  They will complete their chart daily to communicate if they were ready to learn or not throughout the day. 

-Please remember to send back your child’s field trip form for our Hiram field trip.

- Everyone should have received emails from Sign Up Genius- to sign up for a Fall conference and to sign up as a guest reader.