January 4-6

What We’re Learning This Week: Week of January 4th: Happy New Year!

Reading: Ocean Animals (Non-Fiction)
Students will be working on retelling the story including main idea and key details. Students will also show connections to how the animals are built to survive. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5/centers. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We will begin our new writing unit which is Non-fiction writing. We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons. Students will be working on teaching others about facts they know about.

Word Study/Spelling:
• Review words from 2nd quarter
• No excuse words- Continue reviewing 2nd quarter word list

Grammar
• Compound words


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 the end of first grade, students will need to solve 22 addition facts in one minute and 22 subtraction facts in one minute. You’ll see our weekly practice sheet come home every Friday!
Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core. Students will be working on numbers and operations in base ten. We will be using Fact Families to make ten and students will come up with number sentences with these numbers.

3rd grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: Animal Needs/ Habitats
Social Studies: Economics and dividing time into categories.

Homework: See January Homework Log that came home. Thank you for your home support!

Extras:
Happy New Year!
January 13th-Report Cards come home