September 8 - 12

Much better homework response this week!  Thank you for your help and support at home!  Of all 50 students, 39 turned in their homework packet; that's a 78% completion rate.  Of the 39 that turned in their packet, 23 completed all four nights of reading take-home books.  

We have had several questions/concerns about the homework being too easy.  At this point, we have only been reviewing first grade material to make sure that everyone is ready to move on to second grade content.  There will be one more week of review (this week), and then we will be sending home second grade appropriate math.  If it still continues to be too easy, we can talk about what to do at that time.

One of our school-wide goals this year is that (as an entire school) we will read 2 million minutes.  We can easily accomplish this goal by reading 20 minutes per night for five nights each week.  This week, 12 students(52%) in the blue class and 11 students (41%) in the red class met the goal.  Students that meet their reading goal for the entire month will be invited to an award activity at the end of the month.



Here is what we will be working on in English this week:
  • writing simple sentences (have a noun and a verb, begin with a capital letter, end with punctuation, and make sense)
  • didn't get to adjectives last week, so that is still on the agenda for this week
  • ten frames
  • even and odd numbers
  • the meaning of the equal sign - this may sound really basic, but at this point most students don't have a complete understanding of what it means, and that it can be used in many ways.
  • comprehension strategy: cross-checking
  • comprehension strategy: monitor and fix-up
  • pronouns
  • continuing to work on our stamina for Daily 5 routines and procedures (the red group made it a full 20 minutes last week during their read to self time!)
  • goal for take-home book reading - 5 nights this week (100 minutes total)

Here is what we will be working on in Spanish this week:
  • continue with composing and decomposing numbers (6-10)
  • doubles
  • math terms: sum, counting on, doubles, number sentence
  • phonics: closed syllables
  • comprehension: main idea
  • vocabulary skill: position words
  • fluency: accuracy and rate
  • high frequency words: viaje, aprender, lleno, dormir, mientras, limpio
  • social studies: healthy relationships
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