Fall Festival Art Work

Oct. 31-Nov. 4

For the week of October 31st
What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: “It’s Moving Day” (Fiction Text) Focus on comparing and contrasting this week’s story and last week’s story “Animals Building Homes’ (Non-Fiction Text). We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We are into the next unit in writing workshop, which is Opinion/Persuasive writing. The students are learning to write about things they like and how to CONVINCE their readers on why they like it.

Word Study/Spelling:
Fry Words: your, can, said, there, use
Feature/Pattern of the week: Consonants and blends- sp, sk, sm
Ex: spill, spider, skate, sky, smile, smoke
Grammar: Singular and plural nouns with matching verbs

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. At our goal is to have students complete 22 addition facts in one minute and 22 subtraction facts in one minute. Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core.

2nd grading period Science and Social Studies:

Science: Basic needs of animals
Social Studies: Economics and dividing time into categories

Extras: Please return the report card envelope, signed. The report card is yours to keep. Thank you!
Reminder-Tuesday, November 8- PD Day- No School for Students

October 24-28

For the week of October 24th
What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: “Animals Building Homes” (Non-Fiction Text) Focus on the main idea and key details and opinions. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We are into the next unit in writing workshop, which is Opinion/Persuasive writing. The students are learning to write about things they like and how to CONVINCE their readers on why they like it.

Word Study/Spelling:
Fry Words: what, all, were, we when
Feature/Pattern of the week: Consonants and blends- s, t, st
Ex: sip, sit, tip, top, stop, stand

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. At our goal is to have students complete 22 addition facts in one minute and 22 subtraction facts in one minute. Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core.

2nd grading period Science and Social Studies:

Science: Basic needs of animals
Social Studies: Economics and dividing time into categories

Extras:
• Fall Festival: Friday, October 28th

• REPORT CARDS came home last Friday. Please return the envelope, signed, as soon as you can. The report card is yours to keep. Thank you!

Our Little Scientists

Drew ~ Floating Egg



Cameron ~ "The Flower"



William ~ Magic Balloon



Kadance ~ Changing Plants

Lots of Visitors!

The Bully Busters!



Nero the Aurora Police K9



Our Fire Safety Assembly

October 17-21

For the week of 10/17/16
What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: We will be reading the story, “Places Plants and Animals Live.” Students will be identifying the main idea and retelling key details of the text. We will also explore the meaning of the word “tundra” in this non-fiction story (*ask and answer questions to help figure out the meanings of words). We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.

Writing: The first graders will be starting a new opinion unit in writing next week for the second grading period. First, they will learn to review a collection and make choices about which item in that collection is the best, writing defenses for those judgments. Second, the students will learn how to write a review about anything, such as toys, restaurants, video games, movies, etc. Finally, the students will learn to write about book reviews. They will summarize, evaluate, judge, and defend their judgments.

Word Study/Spelling:
Fry Words: Fry Read and Write Words: had, by, words, but, not
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:- Consonant Digraphs ch, sh, th, wh REVIEW
Ex: shoe, she, chair, chug, thin, this, why, what
Grammar:
Introduce common, proper and possessive nouns

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 22 addition facts in one minute and 22 subtraction facts in one minute (the second quarter goal is 15 addition problems in one minute and 15 subtraction problems in one minute). Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core. Here are some examples of games the students will play this week:
*Roll and Record-Addition and Subtraction (+, - fluency)
*How Many Am I Hiding? (missing addends)
*Pair Wise Bingo (review of doubles)
*Compare/Double Compare (addition practice)

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: Animal Habitats
Social Studies: Map Skills

Extras:
• Fire Safety Assembly: Monday, October 17th
• Report Cards Go Home: Friday, October 21st

October 10-13

What We’re Learning This Week: Week of October 10th

Reading: Animal Park (Non-fiction) Students will name the main topic and retell the key details of a non-fiction text. Students will use letter sounds and words to decode words. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We’ll be wrapping up our “small moments” personal narrative writing unit. We will continue to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons. Students will be revising, editing and sharing.

Word Study/Spelling:
• Consonant Diagraphs: th, wh
• Ex: this, thin, thick, when, what
• Fry words- review all 25 Fry Words.
• Grammar- Adjectives

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. At our goal is to have students complete 22 addition facts in one minute and 22 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: The Sun
Social Studies: How to be a good Craddock citizen and following school rules.


Extras:
• Parent teacher Conferences: October 11th & 13th
• End of 1st Grading Period: October 13th
• No School: October 14th