December 12-16

For the week of 12/12/16
What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: We will be reading the story, “Ruby in Her Own Time.” Students will be asking and answering questions about key details in this text and describing the characters, setting, and major events. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5/Centers. 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 finish their opinion unit this week and complete an ON DEMAND writing assessment prompt. Our next unit is informational writing.

Word Study/Spelling:
Fry Words: Fry Read and Write Words: will, each, about
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: Beginning Sounds - k, wh, qu, tw
Ex: where, whisper, kind, quest, twice, twelve

Grammar:
Continue using verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future; fix-up sentences together

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.
*The students will be complete a summative assessment on surveys this week.

1st grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: The needs of animals
Social Studies: Economics and dividing time into categories

Extras:

* We shop at the Holiday Shop on Monday, December 12
• No School for Students (Winter Break): December 22nd - January 3rd