Planting our Grass Seeds

The students got to plant grass seeds in science.  They are excited to watch them grow over the next several weeks!  

For the week of 4/29/19

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: The students will be reading the story, “The Dandelion Seed”. We will focus on asking and answering questions about key details in a story.  We will also work on comparing and contrasting the adventures and experiences in stories.  As always, we will be reading poetry for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.

Writing:  The first graders will continue their writing unit for fourth quarter, realistic fiction.  We introduced this unit by discussing story elements in realistic fiction.  Each story will include a character, place (setting), and plot (trouble) that their character gets into. By the end of this unit, the children will be expected to write a story that has two or more events, with details, transition words, and a wrap-up sentence. We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons.  During this unit, each child will write a made up story with characters doing realistic things and revisit his or her writing to self-assess and revise.  The children will be exploring the option of writing a series about a character. 

Word Study/Spelling:  

Fry Words:  Review of all Fry Words

Feature/Pattern of the week: Long Vowels a, i  (no formal assessment)

Grammar: Review using verbs to convey past, present, and future 

Phonics: Long i- Silent e/igh/ild

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.  

This week we will be working on story problems and defining and non-defining attributes of shapes. 

4th grading period Science and Social Studies: Science: Plants
Social Studies:  Historical Thinking and Skills & Heritage

Extras:

·         Career Week- week of May 6^th

·         Art Show 4/30

·          Tie-Dye Shirts in Art 5/14

Craddock Art Show! Tuesday, April 30th from 6 - 8pm!

A Note from Ms. Hickey:

Each child at Craddock will have their masterpiece matted, framed and displayed for families to view and purchase. Along with viewing your child's artwork, come out to Craddock and enjoy chalk art, photo opportunities, music played by Craddock's very own musicians and homemade desserts baked and sold by Harmon's Beta Club (Cash ONLY for baked goods)!

We can't wait to see everyone there and as always, thank you for your support!

For the week of 4/22/19

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: The students will be reading the fiction story, “Frog and Toad are Friends: Spring Chapter”. We will retell the story, focusing on beginning, middle, end, as well as including key details. The students will compare and contrast the characters, Frog and Toad, in the story. We will also discuss our favorite part and character in the story, using details to support our answer. As always, we will be reading poetry for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.

Writing:  The first graders will continue their writing unit for fourth quarter, realistic fiction.  We introduced this unit by discussing story elements in realistic fiction. Each story will include a character, place (setting), and plot (trouble) that their character gets into. By the end of this unit, the children will be expected to write a story that has an introduction, a middle with two or more detailed events using transition words, and an ending.  We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons.  During this unit, each child will write a made up story with characters doing realistic things and revisit his or her writing to self-assess and revise.

Word Study/Spelling:  

Fry Words:  if, go, see, may, part

Feature/Pattern of the week: short vowels (a, e, i, o, u)  

Ex: sled, ship, toss, truck, chick

Grammar:Review using verbs to convey past, present, and future

Phonics: long a (ai, ay) and silent e

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.  This week we will be working on adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers with 1 digit numbers, as well as adding two 2 digit numbers.  

4th grading period Science and Social Studies: Science: Plants
Social Studies:  Historical Thinking and Skills & Heritage

Extras:

No school- Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22

Career Week: May 6-May 10 (look for papers coming home about this next week)

Art Show: Tuesday, April 30^th-6:00-8:00 pm

     

For the week of 4/15/19

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: The students will be reading the fiction story, “Peter’s Chair, by Ezra Jack Keats. We will describe characters, setting, and major events in a story using key details.  We will use character traits to describe Peter at the beginning and end of the story.  We will also find evidence to support our thinking.  We will also retell the story, focusing on beginning, middle, end, as well as including key details. Lastly, in their reader response journals, the children will need to identify the central message or lesson that can be learned from this story.  As always, we will be reading poetry for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.

Writing:  The first graders will continue their writing unit for fourth quarter, realistic fiction.  We introduced this unit by discussing story elements in realistic fiction. Each story will include a character, place (setting), and plot (trouble) that their character gets into. By the end of this unit, the children will be expected to write a story that has an introduction, a middle with two or more detailed events using transition words, and an ending.  We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons.  During this unit, each child will write a made up story with characters doing realistic things and revisit his or her writing to self-assess and revise.

Word Study/Spelling:  

Fry Words:  come, made, have, from, their

Feature/Pattern of the week: short vowels with final blends     

Ex: must, milk, risk, melt 

Grammar:Continue singular and plural nouns with matching verbs

Phonics: r controlled vowels- or ; dipthong-oi, oy

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.   This week we will continue to review story problems.

4th grading period Science and Social Studies: Science: Plants
Social Studies:  Historical Thinking and Skills & Heritage

Extras:

Please return your child’s report card envelope (signed)!  Thank you!

No school- Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22

Career Week: May 6-May 10

     

For the week of 4/8/19

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: The students will be reading the animal fantasy story, “Mole and Baby Bird,” a story about a mole that finds and takes care of a wild bird. We will be using illustrations to demonstrate the students’ understanding of characters, setting, and plot. The students will also list character traits for Mole and Bird using evidence from the text. Lastly, in their reader response journals, the children will need to identify the central message or lesson that can be learned from this story.  As always, we will be reading poetry for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.

Writing:  The first graders will continue their writing unit for fourth quarter, realistic fiction.  We introduced this unit by discussing story elements in realistic fiction. Each story will include a character, place (setting), and plot (trouble) that their character gets into. By the end of this unit, the children will be expected to write a story that has two or more events, with details, transition words, and a wrap-up sentence. We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons.  During this unit, each child will write a made up story with characters doing realistic things and revisit his or her writing to self-assess and revise.

Word Study/Spelling:  

Fry Words:  did, get, down, day, long

Feature/Pattern of the week: short vowels with beginning blends     

Ex: flip, sled, plug, spot 

Grammar:Review singular and plural nouns with matching verbs

Phonics: Introduce long o (oa, ow, and o_e patterns) 

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.  This week we will play “Jeopardy” to review skills we have learned (solving word problems, adding and subtracting within 20, structuring to 10, counting and writing numbers to 120, adding a 1 digit number to a 2 digit number).  

4th grading period Science and Social Studies: Science: Plants
Social Studies:  Historical Thinking and Skills & Heritage

Extras:

Please return your child’s report card envelope (signed)!  Thank you!