The Sneak Peek
August 28th, 2017
Each week you will receive this digital newsletter. Each newsletter will summarize our classroom happenings for the week. You will be able to read about what your child will be learning across curriculum areas. In addition I will provide a class calendar. The class calendar will highlight special events and our daily encore class.
Snack
Just a reminder that we will have an afternoon snack. Please pack your child a small daily snack. Children are welcome to bring a refillable water bottle to school, please no juice for snack.
Routines and Procedures
When routines and procedures are correctly established your child will be able to focus in a less distracting environment.
CURRICULUM CORNER
Literacy
-Our First Unit - Reading Routines and Habits - Envisioning How a Story Will Go
Unit Objectives
- Ask and answer questions about key details in text
- Retell stories including key details, and demonstrate understanding of the central message or lesson.
- Describe characters, setting, and major events in a story, using key details. -Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, and events.
This Week ....
Children will learn the routines and expectations of Reader's Workshop. We will practice whisper reading, identifying fiction and non-fiction text, and retell strategies
Writer's Workshop
-Our First Unit - Writing Routines and Habits - Personal Narratives
Unit Objectives
- Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, provide sense of closure.
-With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
-Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.-Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts and texts with peers and adults in small and large groups.
-Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
This Week ...
Children will begin writing personal narratives. Children will begin planning their story using a beginning, middle, and end.
Math Workshop
-Our First Unit - Understanding Place Value
Unit Objectives
-Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objectives with a written numeral.
-Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amount of tens and ones. Understand the following as a special cases:
a. 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones – called a “ten.”
b. The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
c. The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).
-Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols <, >, and =.
a. Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits.
This Week ...
Children will identify and sequence numbers
Children will build numbers using manipulatives (one-to-one correspondence)
Children will use number lines
Children will be filling in missing numbers
Science / Social Studies
-Our First Unit - All About Me
Unit Objectives
-Explain similarities and others.
-Explain the elements of culture
-Exemplify positive relationships through fair play and friendship
This Week ....
We are getting to know each other. The better I know your child, the better I can serve them!
Class Calendar
Tues. Aug. 29th - Encore - Makerspace / Technology
Wed. Aug. 30th - Encore - Chinese
Thurs. Aug. 31st - Encore - Media / Guidance
Fri. Sept. 1st - Encore - Music
Mon. Sept. 4th - No School - Labor Day
Tues. Sept.5th - Encore - PE
*Wear tennis shoes