For the week of 10/1/2018

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  This week we will be reading the story, “The Wind and the Sun”, and comparing it to the book “Sun”.  We will learn how to explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.  We will also review retelling “The Wind and the Sun” by focusing on the characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end. Students will continue to work on identifying the text features in non-fiction books. 

Your child will come home with his/her 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” – beginning, middle, end.  

**Guided reading will be slowing down the next few weeks due to individual assessments for the end of the quarter.  Your child will be coming home with less guided reading books in the next couple weeks. 

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. The children will soon choose one of their best stories to focus on for revising, editing, and publishing. 

Grammar:We will continue to review verbs this week. We will also review capitals and end marks as we learn how to edit our stories in writing workshop.

Word Study/Spelling:  

Fry Words:           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   et   eg  en  (short e)

Ex: get, pet, leg, peg, hen, pen 

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 15 addition facts in one minute and 15 subtraction facts in one minute.  Please do not be concerned if your child is not close to 15 because we will continue to work on this throughout the year.  Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core. The children will continue to work on building 2-digit numbers (with base ten blocks, digit cards) and compare both numbers with <, >, and = symbols.  We will really focus on ways to make ten, and extend to the next decade.  For example, what goes with 7 to make 10 and what goes with 17 to make 20.  We will write addition and subtraction number sentences using the combinations of 10.

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

Homework: Continue working on homework log. You can send back the September one for your child to earn 5 extra Schaefer dollars to buy class rewards. The October one was sent home on Thursday. JThank you for your home support!

Extras:

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

·      Autumn Assessment days (last names A-Lon September 28^th) and (last names M-Zon October 1^stunless we have discussed a switch)

·      Field trip to Hiram College: Miss Schaefer’s class on Tuesday, October 2^rd - please remember to pack a bagged lunch and dress for the weather and walking! 

·      No School October 11^thor 12^th

·      Teacher/Parent Conferences: Week of Oct. 15^th– you should have received an email to sign up on sign up genius. 

·      End of 1^stGrading Period: October 19^th

Tens Go Fish

The students practiced making tens by playing a version of 'Go Fish'.  If one student had a 3, they would ask the other student if they had any 7's.  They loved playing this game while practicing their math skills! 

For the week of 9/24/2018

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  This week we will be reading the story, “Sun.”  Students will work on identifying the text features in a non-fiction book. 

Your child will be coming home with their daily 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. 

Grammar:We will continue to review verbs this week. Check out this awesome song to help identify what a verb is on You Tube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ineCCpqpZrM

Word Study/Spelling:  

Fry Words: at  be   or  this one  

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       ug  ut  un   (short u)

Ex: tug, mug, got, hut, fun 

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 15 addition facts in one minute and 15 subtraction facts in one minute.  Please look for a fluency check coming home next week to see how your child is currently doing.  We will continue to use our strategies to make progress with this.  Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core. The children will work on building 2-digit numbers (with base ten blocks, digit cards) and compare both numbers with <, >, and = symbols.  We will also play a game called “Roll and Record Subtraction” this week!

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:

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

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

Extras:

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

·      School Pictures Sept. 25^th

·      “Get to Know You” days (last names A-Lon September 28^th) and (last names M-Zon October 1^st)-If you talked to me about switching days, then please stick to that day

·      Field trip to Hiram College: Our class on October 2^nd

·      No School October 11^thor 12^th

·      Teacher/Parent Conferences: October 16^th,October 17^th, and October 18^th(I sent out a sign-up genius for this)

·      End of 1^stGrading Period: October 19^th

For the week of 9/17/2017

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.  Depending on the schedule, your child may not bring home a book every night, and they may bring home the same book for multiple nights.  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. JThank 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. We go on the field trip on October 2^nd.  

- Everyone should have received emails from Sign Up Genius- to sign up as a guest reader. I will be sending out conference sign-ups this week.  

Stuffed Animal Day!

Cuisenaire Rods

We explored with Cuisenaire Rods and the students shared what they noticed.  Some noticed that two or three of one color could fit inside another color.  They used them to fill in pictures and realized that everyone filled them differently.  

Writing Workshop

The kids have been working so hard during writing workshop writing their small moment stories.  We also have started having a few students share at the end of writing workshop under the document camera!  

 

Ms. Mazzella's Blog

Ms. Mazzella also has a blog regarding her counseling lessons and information!  If you would like to visit it here is the link:     
http://tmazzella.blogspot.com

Roll and Record

We have been doing a lot of practice with dot patterns in math.  This week, we applied our skills when doing the activity, "Roll and Record".  Students rolled two dice and added them together to practice addition!  

For the week of 9/10/2018

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:“Pig in a Wig” (Fiction Text)- We will work on retelling the story using the beginning, middle, and end.  We will retell the story using pictures, as well as writing sentences in our own words.  

We will be continuing Guided Reading.  This is where I have the opportunity to work with your child at his/her reading level.  Your child will begin to come home with their guided reading book to practice in their “book in a bag.” Please remember to read your child’s book-in-a-bag with them.  It is important to always return “the book in a bag” the next day.  Depending on the schedule, students may not bring home a book every day, or may bring home the same book to work on for multiple nights. Thank you!! 

Writing: We will be continuing writing workshop and brainstorming small moments for our personal narrative writing unit. Students will continue to work on writing about personal “small moments”. The students will learn how to write a story across pages with an introduction, details, and ending.  We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks, and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons. This week we will continue to focus on adding details in our writing, to answer questions such as who, what, when, where, why and how.  We will also work on stretching out sounds in words when writing.

Grammar: We will be introducing nouns this week. We will review the naming part of a sentence and discussing how this is a noun.  We will look for nouns in sentences that we have written.  

Word Study/Spelling:  

Read and Write Words:  he   was   for on   are

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 “i.” 

Feature/Pattern of the week: Word Families -  ip, ig, ill  

Ex: lip, hip, pig, wig, fill, pill

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 15 addition facts in one minute and 15 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 building and decomposing numbers using bundles (10 popsicle sticks bound together) and sticks (individual sticks).  We will continue introducing story problems within 10 and practice writing number sentences that match the problems.  

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. 

-Please return the Hiram Field Trip permission slips and the Aurora Reads permission slips. **Our Field Trip day is October 2^nd. 

- Homework: I sent home the first homework log for the month of September. The homework log can be returned at the end of each month. There are homework ideas on the back JThank you for your home support! 

- Behavior Communication Chart:  This also started this week. The chart will stay in your child’s take home folder. They will complete their chart daily to communicate if they were ready to learn or not throughout the day.  

- I sent home log in information for raz-kids.

- Everyone should have received an email about Sign Up Genius- to sign up as a guest reader if you would like 😊

Heads and Tails Math Game

The students practiced making tens with pennies and dimes.  They worked together and helped each other!