For the week of 9/25/2017

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  This week we will be reading a fiction story, “The Wind and the Sun” and comparing/contrasting it with our non-fiction “Sun” book we read last week.  One learning target for our students is for them to be able to explain differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.  We will introduce the children to a Venn diagram as we compare/contrast these books as well.

Your child will be coming home with their guided reading book to read in their “book in a bag.”  Please remember to practice reading your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.  Ask them comprehension questions, such as, “Who are the characters?” and “Tell me what happened in this story.”

Writing: Students will continue writing about “small moments” throughout our personal narrative writing unit.  We will also work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons (we are exploring pop-out words, bold print words, and ellipses this week).

Grammar: We will continue to review capitals and end marks this week.  Remember your sentence checker (a sentence must include): capital letters, spaces, brave spelling, makes sense, and end marks!

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words: REVIEW of Read and Write Words this quarter (teacher chooses 5)      of     and   you   was       are 

Short vowel word families will be our focus for this quarter.  Word families share the same vowels/patterns and rhyme.

Feature/Pattern of the week:- Word Families       eg  et  en   (short e)

Ex: beg, leg, get, hen, when

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.  Our end-of-the-year goal is to have students 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.

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:

Science: The Sun
Social Studies: Map Skills (introduce)

Homework: Continue working on homework log.J Thank you for your home support!

Extras:

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

-Please return your Aurora Reads volunteer form.

-School Pictures: Sept. 26^th   Smile!!!

-Our Hiram College Field Trip: Friday, September 29^th: Wear your green class shirt and bring a nut-free brown bag lunch!

-Parent teacher Conferences: October 9^th, 10^th, 11^th  

-No School October 13^th

-End of 1^st Grading Period: October 20^th