Week of September 30

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, as we finish this unit.  We will also do a writing check for the end of the quarter- the children will write a piece on their own to show me what they know/learned. 

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, we, and

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 e - et, eg, en

Ex: get, net, leg, pen, then

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. Thank you for your home support!

Extras:

·        * Please make sure you are sending your child with a peanut free, non messy snack for the am.  

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·        *Teacher/Parent Conferences: Week of Oct. 19th – you should have received an email to sign up on sign up genius. Here is the link again - https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044DA9A823AAFC1-fall3

·       *  End of 1^st Grading Period: October 16th

*   * October 30th- Fall Festival Celebration- there will not be a parade, but the kids will be allowed to wear their costumes to school and keep them on.  Classroom teachers will celebrate with the kids with fun activities and a snack.