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