Game Day

Week of January 7th

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

What We’re Learning This Week: Week of January 7^th

Reading: Ocean Animals (Non-Fiction)
Students will be working on retelling the story, “Ocean Animals.”  We will also identify the main idea and key details. Students will show connections to how the animals are built to survive. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5/centers. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We will begin our new writing unit which is non-fiction writing. We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons. Students will be working on teaching others facts/information they know about a specific topic.

Word Study/Spelling:
•-Spelling patterns: -k, -wh, -qu, -tw (ex: quit, king, when, twig)
• No new Read/Write words- Continue reviewing 2nd quarter word list

Grammar
• Compound words and review of verb tense

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. At the end of first grade, students will need to solve 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. Students will be working on numbers and operations in base ten. This is game week (ex: Equal Sums, Speed, How Many Am I Hiding?)!

3rd grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: Living and Non-Living Things (gummy worms and mealworms)
Social Studies: Economics and dividing time into categories
Homework: See January homework log that will come home after break. Thank you for your home support!

Extras:

Happy New Year!
January 11th-Report Cards come home

Winter Celebration

We got to make "snow forts" and throw "snowballs" into the other team's bowl, wrap a friend up as a snowman, and make snowman crafts.  The kids had a great time!!

Social Studies School Store

 Students got to be creative and make three products to sell to Mrs. Armbrecht's class.  Our class got to shop from the products that their class created!  

Read and Relax

For the Week of 12/17/2018

This week we will be doing some fun holiday activities. We will not do any new spelling words and will most likely not have guided reading books this week. 

Tuesday 18^th- Read and Relax Day (Students can bring 4-5 books from home & optional slippers).

Wednesday 19^th–Game Day: Students may bring ONE board/card game from home. 

The game needs to fit inside their book-bag for easy transportation to school. If you 

do not want to send them with a game, we have extras at school!  

Thursday 20^th- PJ day! Holiday movie in the morning; PTO Winter Party in the afternoon!

I hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday!

-Winter/Holiday Celebration- December 20th

- End of 2^ndgrading period- December 20^th

- Last student day before winter break- December 20^th

- Winter break for students: Dec. 21^st- Jan. 6^th(back on the 7th)

Read to Someone

Students picked a buddy to partner read our story of the week, "Ruby in Her Own Time". 

Writing Numbers Dice Game

Students continued to practice writing their numbers in sequential order by playing a dice game with a partner!

What We’re Learning: Week of December 10th

Reading:  We will be reading a fiction story called “Ruby in her Own Time”.   We will focus on using words to describe how the main character changed throughout the book.  We will also review characters, setting, and a major event.  Your child will continue to come home with a guided reading book to read in their “book in a bag.”  Please remember to practice reading your child’s book-in-a-bag 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.”  **Starting next week, I will be doing several individual assessments for the end of the quarter.  As a result, I may not be able to follow my normal guided reading schedule every day.  Therefore, your child may not receive as many guided reading books in the next couple weeks.  Please continue to practice reading the book in bag with your child when they do bring it home.  If they do not bring a new book home that day, they can read a choice book or work on Raz-Kids.  

Writing: We will continue our opinion writing unit.  They have learned to review a collection and make choices about which item in that collection is the best, writing defenses for those judgments.  The students have also learned to write a review about anything, such as toys, restaurants, video games, movies, and book reviews.  They have summarized, evaluated, judged, and defended their judgments. This week we will begin to pick a piece to edit and publish for the end of our writing unit.  I will continue to conference with students and reinforce the application of what we are learning.

Word Study/Spelling:

-Letter Name- Consonants Blends: pr, dr, br, tr  (prep, drop, brush, trip)

-Read and Write Fry Words: Teacher choice of 5 words from 2^nd column---please continue to practice all 25 words.

-Grammar: Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future

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 continue to work on surveys and collecting data, as well as representing the data in a picture graph.  We also will work on answering questions about the data. 

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

Homework: Continue working on homework log for the month. Thank you for your continued home support!

Extras:

-Please make sure you are sending your child with a peanut-free snack!

- Holiday Shop—Our class shops on Monday, December 10.

-Winter/Holiday Celebration- December 20th

- End of 2^nd grading period- December 20^th

- Last student day before winter break- December 20^th

- Winter break for students: Dec. 21^st - Jan. 6^th (back on the 7th)

 

What We’re Learning Week of December 3rd

Reading:  We will be reading a fiction story called “An Egg is an Egg”.   We will focus on retelling the story including key details.  We will also demonstrate understanding of the story’s central message/lesson.  Your child will continue to come home with a guided reading book to read in their “book in a bag.”  Please remember to practice reading your child’s book-in-a-bag 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.”  **As a reminder, it depends on the schedule when I meet with guided reading groups each day.  I am not able to meet with every group every day.  If your child brings home the same book, he/she may reread that book, read a different book, or read on raz-kids. 

Writing: We will continue our opinion writing unit.  First, they will learn to review a collection and make choices about which item in that collection is the best, writing defenses for those judgments.  Second, the students will learn how to write a review about anything, such as toys, restaurants, video games, movies, etc.  Finally, the students will learn to write about book reviews.  They will summarize, evaluate, judge, and defend their judgments. This week we will continue writing opinions about topics, and we will continue to learn how to support our opinion by writing detailed reasons.   We will also use what we have learned about opinion writing to write book reviews.  I will continue to conference with students and reinforce the application of what we are learning.

Word Study/Spelling: 

-Letter Name- Consonants Blends: cr, cl, fr, gl, gr  (crib, clap, frog, glad, grip)

-Read and Write Fry Words: Teacher choice of 5 words from 2^ndcolumn---please continue to practice all 25 words. 

-Grammar: Personal and possessive pronouns 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.  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 be continuing to work on identifying 2 and 3 digit numbers and number sequencing, starting at any number less than 120.  We will also introduce surveys and concept of collecting data.

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

Homework: Continue working on homework log for the month. Thank you for your continued home support!

Extras:

-Please make sure you are sending your child with a peanut-free snack!

- Holiday Shop—Our class shops on Monday, December 10. 

-Winter/Holiday Celebration- December 20th

- End of 2^ndgrading period- December 20^th

- Last student day before winter break- December 20^th

- Winter break for students: Dec. 21^st- Jan. 6^th(back on the 7th)