Working Together to Sort Living Things into Land and Water Habitats

For the Week of 10/29/18

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  “Animals Building Homes” (Non-Fiction Text)

We will focus on asking and answering questions about key details in a text.  We will also review main topic. We will focus on using various text features to locate key facts or information in a text. We’ll also be continuing guided reading and daily five center activities. Please continue to read and monitor the book-in-a bag coming

home nightly.

As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice. 

Writing: We began a new writing unit on opinion writing. Students will learn how to write an opinion piece in which they introduce the topic or name of a book, state an opinion, supply detailed reasons for the opinion and provide a sense of closure. This week we will continue to focus on learning fact vs. opinion.  We will also learn how to write good detailed reasons to defend our opinions. I will also continue to conference with students and reinforce the application of what we are learning.

Word Study/Spelling:

Beginning consonants and Blends:  s,  t, st  (sun, set, tap, tug, step, stop)

Read and Write Fry Words: what, all, were, we, when

Phonics- Consonant Clusters s family  (stick, scab, small, slid, snap, spin, swing)

Grammar: Common, proper and possessive nouns (continued)

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, and our goal is to have students complete 15 addition facts in one

minute and 15 subtraction facts in one minute by the end of the year. Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common

core.We will continue to focus on place value by building and writing numbers.  We will also focus on story problems.  We will discuss part-part-whole as well as start-change-result and write expressions to represent story problems.

2nd grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: Habitats
Social Studies: Economics – we will learn about needs and wants.

Extras:

-Please continue to send in a nut free snack each day.

-Report cards go home Oct. 26^{th –}  Please keep everything inside envelope and return signed envelope.

- Oct. 31^st- Halloween parade and classroom party

-Nov. 13- Donut Day- please return the RSVP slip if a special person plans on attending with your child.  If you need another form, let me know.

For the Week of 10/22/18

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  “Places Plants and Animals Live” (Non-Fiction Text)

We will focus on the main idea and key details.  Students will be working on

asking and answering questions to help figure out the meaning of the words

in a non-fiction text. We’ll be continuing guided reading and daily five. 

As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression

practice.  Please continue to read and monitor the book-in-a bag coming

home nightly.

Writing: We are beginning a new writing unit on opinion writing.

Students will write an opinion piece in which they introduce the topic

or name of a book, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion and

provide since of closure. Well will continue to work on using upper and

lower case letters in the correct manner as well as punctuation.

Word Study/Spelling: Digraphs th, wh (thumb, thin, whale, wheel)
Fry Words: had, by, words, but, not

Phonics- Mixed Digraphs (th, wh, sh, ch)

Grammar: Introducing common, proper and possessive nouns 

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.

And our goal is to have students 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. This week we are introducing fractions with shapes. Students will practice drawing lines on shapes and folding shapes into halves and fourths. 

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:

Science: Habitats 

Social Studies: Maps

Extras:

-End of the grading period Oct. 19^th

-Friday, October 26^th: Report cards distributed 

-Wednesday, October 31^st: Fall Festival Parade at 2:15

Sharing our Published Writing

The students chose one small moment story to edit and publish.  They shared their writing with a small group and gave each other compliments.  

Toy Reward Playtime

For the Week of 10/15/18

What We’re Learning This Week: 

Reading:  This week we will be reading a non-fiction story, “Animal Park”.  We will focus on the topic/main idea of the story, as well as key details that help describe it.  We will also be reviewing non-fiction text features. 

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 the beginning, middle, and end of this story.” 

Writing: Students will continue writing about “small moments” throughout our personal narrative writing unit. The students will be choosing one of their stories that they think is their best writing this week.  Then our mini lessons will focus on how to revise and edit their writing.  This will help us to publish and celebrate the students’ writing pieces.  I will continue to conference with students and reinforce the application of what we are learning. 

Grammar: We will continue to review capitals and end marks as we continue editing lessons in writing workshop.  Remember your sentence checker (a sentence must include): capital letters, spaces, brave spelling, makes sense, and end marks!  We will also continue to review adjectives as the kids learn how to revise and “fancy up” their writing.

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words: REVIEW of Read and Write Words this quarter (teacher chooses 5)* 

Feature/Pattern of the week:  Consonant Digraphs – ch,            sh

Ex: chick, chat, shin, shut

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.  Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core.  We will focus on several activities to help us become more fluent with doubles and near doubles (3+3=6, 3+2=5, 3+4=7).  This week we will be doing a group worthy task… The students will work in groups to collaborate to work on skills and strategies to help solve a math riddle.     

Extras:

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

-Parent teacher Conferences: October 16th, 17^th & 18^th  

Principal Pals

Dr. Troman visited our classroom to read "Diary of a Spider" and make a spider craft with the kids.  They had so much fun! 

Hiram Field Trip

The students had a great day exploring on our hike and learning about living and non-living things.  

For the week of 10/8/2018

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  This week we will be reading the fiction story, “Get the Egg”.  We work on retelling the story with pictures and sentences from the book.  We will also learn how to retell a story using ‘who’ and ‘what’ strategies.  

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.  

**Your child may be coming home with less guided reading books the next few weeks due to end of the quarter individual assessments.  

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 choose one of their best stories to focus on for revising, editing, and publishing. We will celebrate the stories by sharing them with our classmates when they are completed.  

Grammar:We will begin to learn about adjectives this week.  We will use adjectives to ‘fancy up’ our writing.  

Word Study/Spelling:  

Fry Words: **Teacher chooses 5 review words from first column: with, they, this, for, 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:- consonant digraphs:      ch         sh

Ex: chip, chat, shut, ship 

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. We will continue working on this all year. Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core. We will continue to focus on ways to make ten, and extend to the next decade.  For example, what goes with 6 to make 10 and what goes with 16 to make 20.  We will also continue to work on building 2-digit numbers with base ten blocks.   

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.  

·      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. 

·      Students can hold onto their old behavior calendars in their folders to spend their “Schaefer Dollars” for classroom rewards

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

Bully Prevention Spirit Days

Tuesday October 2nd	Give Bullies the Boot	Wear Your Boots
Monday October 8th	Don't Let Bullies Put a Lid on Your Fun	Wear a Hat
Monday October 15th	Show Bullies It Is Okay to Be Different	Wear Mismatched OR    Inside Out Clothes
Monday October 22nd	Show Bullies How to Be Kind	Write a Kind Note to Someone
Monday October 29th	Show Bullies Your Super Power	Wear a Cape, a Shirt or     the Favorite Colors of a Super hero