We had so much fun exploring nature at Moebius Nature Center on our field trip!

Playing compare to work on greater than and less than!

For the Week of 9/30/19

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

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: 

Read and Write Words:  by, on, up

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: short i and short u

Ex: hid, list, hug, must

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. 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. A new one will come home on Monday.  Thank 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^th or 14^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^st Grading Period: October 18^th

For the week of 9/23/2019

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 (glossary, table of contents, index, bold print words, captions, etc.). We will also find key words in the text and discuss their meanings.

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 and bring it back to school EVERY day.  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:   my, look, it

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: - short a and short o

Ex: tag, ham, ran, cot, mop, sock

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. 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.J Thank 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. 24^th

·       -  “Get to Know You” days (last names A-L on September 20^th) and (last names M-Z on October 23^rd) 

·         -No School October 11^th or 14^th

·         -Teacher/Parent Conferences: October 15^th October 16^th and October 17^th (A sign-up genius came up last week regarding this)

·       -  End of 1^st Grading Period: October 18^th

Reading Our Stories to a Friend

We learned how to add details to our small moment stories by reading them to a friend.  The friend gave ideas for details to add to our stories.  

Learning New Yoga Poses!

We Love Read Alouds!

Every day after lunch and recess we do a read aloud.  This helps us experience new and exciting books as well as calm our bodies after recess! 

Learning Yoga Poses with Ms. Mazella

We learned some yoga poses that could help us get ready to learn when we went to our counseling lesson this week!  We learned the mountain and chair pose.  

Week of 9/16/19

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 major events in order.  

Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.  We have been doing some assessments so the books may not be coming home as frequently as they will be in the future.  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.  If they do not get a new book, they can practice the old one, read one at home, or read on Raz-Kids. Thank you!! 

Writing: 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:  do, he, in

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 -  ag, eg, ig, og, ug 

Ex: frog, bag, beg, fig, slug

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 year goal is 15 addition and 15 subtraction. 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. 

- 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.  

-Sept. 20 (A-L) If your last name starts with A-L, your child comes to school on this day.

-Sept. 23 (M-Z) If your last name starts with M-Z, your child comes to school on this day.

-Look for a sign-up genius coming soon for conferences! 

-Picture Day 9/24/19

-Field Trip-9/26/19

For the week of 9/9/2019

What We’re Learning This Week: 

Reading: “Pig in a Wig” (Fiction Text) We will work on retelling through sequencing events in a fiction text.  We will also work on telling what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. 

I have started guided reading.  This is where I have the opportunity to work with your child at his/her reading level.   Your child is beginning to come home with his/her guided reading book to practice in their “book in a bag.” Please remember to have your child read the book-in-a-bag.  It is important to always return “the book in a bag” the next day.  Thank you!!

Writing: We will be continuing writing workshop for our personal narrative writing unit. Students will continue to work on writing about personal “small moments”. The students will 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.  We will also work on adding detail to our writing.

Grammar: We will be introducing nouns and finding them in our writing. 

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words:  see   the   to

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 “a”, short vowel “e”, and short vowel “o”.

Feature/Pattern of the week: Word Families – ad, ed, ab, ob

Ex: sad, bed, cab, job

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 will continue working on story problems and writing number sentences to match them.

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: I sent home the first homework log for the month of September. The homework log can be returned at the end of each month.  Thank you for your home support!

- Behavior Communication Chart:  This also was sent home for the month of September. 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.

- Autumn Assessment days (Getting to know you days):

                   Sept. 20 (A-L) If your last name starts with A-L, your child comes to school on this day.

                    Sept. 23 (M-Z) If your last name starts with M-Z, your child comes to school on this day.

-Look for a sign-up genius coming soon for conferences!

For the week of 9/2/2019

What We’re Learning This Week: 

Reading: “Where Animals Live” (Non-Fiction Text) We will work on identifying the main idea and key details of a non-fiction text.  We will also work on asking and answering questions about the key details. We will also read the story “Our Tree Named Steve” and learn how to identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

I have been starting guided reading.  This is where I have the opportunity to work with your child at his/her reading level.   Your child is beginning to come home with his/her guided reading book to practice in their “book in a bag.” Please remember to have your child read the book-in-a-bag.  It is important to always return “the book in a bag” the next day.  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 planning for writing and using pictures to add to our stories.

Grammar: We will be reviewing what makes a COMPLETE sentence (conventions, spacing, capital letters, and neatness.) - Identifying the naming and telling part of a sentence.

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words:  is  like  me

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 “a”, short vowel “u”, and short vowel “i”. 

Feature/Pattern of the week: Word Families – an, un, in

Ex: man, ran, sun, fun, win, tin

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 place value- that a number is made up of tens and ones. We will practice building numbers within 100, then build the number that is 10 more/10 less, and write the numbers. We will also begin to follow story problems and record number sentences.

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: I will be sending home the first homework log for the month of September. The homework log can be returned at the end of each month.  Thank you for your home support!

- Behavior Communication Chart:  This will also start this week for the month of September. 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 from Sign Up Genius if you would like to sign up to be a guest reader.

- Autumn Assessment days (Getting to know you days):

                  Sept. 20 (A-L) If your last name starts with A-L, your child comes to school on this day.

                  Sept. 23 (M-Z) If your last name starts with M-Z, your child comes to school on this day.

Mrs. Menta coming to read to our class

Excited for lots of learning in first grade!

Observing our Class Tree for Science

Math with Dominoes

Reading with a Friend