Tuesday (9/11): Tuesday folders will come home.
Wednesday (9/12): Library checkout 8:30
Thursday (9/13):
Friday (9/14): Evacuation Drill at 8:00 a.m. Please make sure you are at school on time.
Life skills Award Ceremonies- Each Monday students that are showing our weekly life skill will be recognized. Two students from each classroom will be honored in the cafeteria at 7:35 a.m. on Monday mornings. Notes will be sent home each week in the Tuesday folder to invite parents to the small ceremony on the following Monday if your child is chosen. If you are able to attend, that is wonderful...If you are not able to attend that is understandable.
IXL and Kids A-Z (also referred to as RAZkids)-Look for usernames and passwords for these two online resources in you blue daily folder today. The information cards are glued to the back of the first page of your agenda. (Behind the student name page and before the sight word page.) To access IXL, go to IXL.com and enter the complete username, including @caraway. If you access IXL through the Caraway website (students, math, Ixl) you do not need to type @caraway. See below for suggested IXL homework.
For Kids A-Z reading. Go to www.kidsa-z.com. Teacher username tbyrne10, click on student name, enter student password
You may also go to the link tab on my site for easy access.
This week in Writing Workshop…
We will write personal narrative stories by telling our stories across our hand. This strategy will help us organize our stories so that they make sense to the reader by using a beginning, middle and end. Students will begin using capitalization at the beginning of a sentence and when using the pronoun ‘I’. Students will also begin to recognize when they should use end punctuation.
This week in Math…
We will begin learning how to solve addition problems using the count-on strategy. The count-on strategy involves counting on 1, 2, or 3 from a given number. We will use different tools to help us count-on, such as number tracks and various counters. We will apply the count-on strategy in problem solving situations. In this unit, we will also use the commutative property. For example, if 3+4=7, then 4+3=7 as well.
You can help your child at home by having them practice counting on and counting backward from a given number. Practice skip counting by 2’s. Let your child use household objects to build numbers up to 20. A very important part of math in 1st Grade is learning to justify how a problem is solved. Ask them to explain how they got to their answer and how they know it is correct.
Our school at home math program, IXL, also has some great practice lesson for this skill under section A.10 Counting by twos, fives, and tens. Section B “Understanding Adding” is another excellent resource to review addition skills. (B.1, B.2, B.3, and B.4)
This week in Reading Workshop…
We will continue to learn and practice our Partner Reading (Read to Someone)! We will practice the right way to partner read. We will talk about how partners plan when they read together. We will discuss how partners learn to talk to each other about the books they are reading. We will think about how partners have to cooperate and find ways to solve their problems when they read together.
This week in Social Studies…
We will be learning about how to be a good citizen. We will recognize leaders in our school and in the community.
This week in Science…
We will continue to look at objects like scientists! We will observe objects, describe and compare their properties, including size, shape, texture, mass, color, hardness and buoyancy.
The Life Skill of the Week is…
Effort - to do your best!
Upcoming Dates to Remember:
Sept 17th - Life skills Recognition Ceremony (Integrity)
Sept 21st - Academies Launch
Sept 29th - Caraway 40th Anniversary Celebration
Oct 8th -No school for students
Oct 9th - No school for students
Oct 11th - International Walk and Bike to School Day