Guest Reader/Week of October 7th

Thank you to our guest reader Mrs. Mora

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  This week we will be reading the story, “Get the Egg” and working on retelling the story using key details.  We will use the prompts ‘who’ and ‘what’ to help us retell the story. 

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 finish writing about “small moments” stories for our personal narrative writing unit.  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.  We also completed an end of quarter writing check to show what the kids know.  The kids wrote a story on their own to include everything they learned.  These will be shared at our upcoming conference!! :) 

Grammar: We will introduce adjectives this week.  We will work on adding these to our writing to make our stories more interesting.

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words:  are  come  for  or

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 vowel: u - ut, ug, un

Ex: cut, hug, run

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 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. We will also focus on doubles.

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:- we will finish this
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.  

·         Teacher/Parent Conferences: Week of Oct. 19^th – you should have received an email to sign up on sign up genius

·         Students have been enjoying spending “Armbrecht dollars” on privileges that they earned on their behavior charts.  They will continue to do this weekly.

·         End of 1^st Grading Period: October 23

*    Friday, October 30 - Fall Festival Celebration : the kids are able to wear their costumes to school.  Mrs. Markewitz, our head room parent, will also be sending in fun activities for the kids to do.  Thank you to our wonderful parents who planned these activities!!!!