Week of August 19th

What We’re Learning This Week:
Reading: “Day of Firsts” (Fiction Text) we will be working on identifying the characters, setting and major events of a story in order.  We will also begin to learn how to stop, think, and paraphrase (retell) the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
 Your child will soon start to come home with their book to read in their “book in a bag.” Your child should practice reading the book to you. This will start in a few weeks. J    *** Soon, I will also be sending home a letter about Guided Reading and the Book In A Bag.

Writing: We will be introducing writing workshop. Next week, students will start to work on writing about “small moments” as we begin our personal narrative writing unit. This week, we will be really focusing on capitalization, end marks and writing complete sentences through min-lessons. We will be focusing on the naming and telling part of a sentence.

Grammar: We will be reviewing what makes a “good sentence.” We are focusing on making a COMPLETE sentence (Conventions, spacing, Capital letters, neatness)..We will also practice identifying the naming and telling part of a sentence.

Word Study/Spelling: This week we are going to dive deep into what Spelling time would look like in our classroom. We will be practicing what a word sort looks like and how to take a “Celebrations of Knowledge” - aka spelling tests. The students will get familiar with spelling expectations and practicing writing words. 

Read and Write Words:  *** The first grade list will be sent home this week.

Feature/Pattern of the week: - Word Families      

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. We are working towards 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.

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:
 Science: 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 snack for the am.
-Blue Ribbon Reader_-please send packets back ASAP if your child completed one. The Blue Ribbon Reader Event will be Thursday, Aug. 29^th right after school. Invitations will be sent home for those students who returned their Blue Ribbon Reader packet.

- PTO information was included with the office information you received at meet and greet.  It gives directions how you can sign up and volunteer for different events.

- Homework: This will start in September. I will soon be sending home the first homework log for the month of September. The homework log can be returned at the end of each month. J Thank you for your home support!

- Behavior Communication Chart:  This will also start for the month of September.  The monthly 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. 

- You will soon receive an email from Sign Up Genius-to sign up as a guest reader.

-  Star of the Week will be starting 😊  Information about it will come home when it is your child's turn.