Week of August 26th

What We’re Learning This Week: 

Reading: “Sam Come Back” (Fiction Text) We will be working on identifying the characters, setting and major events of a story in order.  We will also work on a think aloud strategy, Stop  Think  Paraphrase (stop, think about the text, and put it in your own words). 

In the next few weeks, your child will start coming home with their guided reading book to read in their “book in a bag.” Please remember to have your child read his/her book to you.

Writing: We will be introducing writing workshop and brainstorming small moments for our personal narrative unit.  Students will work on writing about “small moments” as we begin our personal narrative writing unit. We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed 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 COMPLETE sentence (Conventions, spacing, Capital letters, neatness.).. Identifying the naming and telling piece of a sentence.

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words:  am   at   can   go

Short vowel word families will be our focus for this quarter. Word family shares the same vowels/patterns and rhyming words. We are working on short vowel “a” "o" and "i"

Feature/Pattern of the week:- Word Families: at, ot, it

Ex: cat, bat, hot, got, lit, sit

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.  We will do activities to help with fluency when adding and subtracting numbers to 10. We will also focus on two digit numbers using tens and ones.

1st grading period Science and Social Studies: Science: The Sun
Social Studies: How to be a good Craddock citizen and following school rules.


Extras:

-Blue Ribbon Reader_-packets were already due back.  The Blue Ribbon Reader Event will be Thursday, Aug. 29^th right after school. Those that RSVP'd yes will attend.

 -Please make sure you are sending your child with a peanut free snack for the am.

-Homework: This will start in September. This week, I will send 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.

- I sent home info about how to log into Reading a-z for Raz-kids

- I sent an email from sign up genius about signing up to be a guest reader :)