Here are some pictures from our trip to the
Staten Island Children's Museum on December 3rd !
December Word Study
In the month of December we will continue to learn what a digraph blend is and we will be learning about closed syllables. (Words have parts that go together are called syllables. A syllable is a part of the word that can be pushed out in one breath.)
For example: Bat- is a one syllable word
Batman- is a two syllable word
A closed syllable has only one vowel but is enclosed with a consonant behind the vowel, making the short vowel sound. A closed syllable doesn't have to have a consonant in front of the vowel but it has to have one or more consonants behind the vowel.
For example: Bat ,at , and bath are closed syllables.
The way we mark the closed syllable is by scooping out one syllable and underlining it with a crescent and writing "c" under the mark. "C" stands for the closed syllable. Then put a breve above the vowel that makes the short vowel sound.
For example: last
Trick words: our, over, come,would, after, also
Words of the day: melt, brush, act, punch, ill, stiff
December Reading Workshop
December Reading Workshop
For
the month of December, students will be working on Monitoring for Meaning as
they read their fiction books.
Purpose:
The
purpose of this unit is to encourage students to stay involved in their
reading. This unit also allows the teacher to revisit strategies taught
earlier in the year and to teach students how these strategies need to change
as they move into reading higher level books.
Unit Goals:
∙ Students will read actively - staying
involved with their books by monitoring for meaning, connecting, predicting,
and having reactions to the text.
∙ Students will be partner reading, helping
each other work toward specific goals such as reading smoothly, reading
dialogue like the character, reading paying attention to punctuation, or
practicing retelling.
∙
Students will be able to use strategies that are
appropriate for the leveled text that they are reading.
December Writing Workshop
Writer's Workshop Update!
Our students have been working really hard on their Realistic Fiction stories. We will be editing and publishing our drafts, and will finish by Friday, December 11th.
Our writing celebration for Realistic Fiction will be.....
Our next writing unit will be How-To's!
November Reading Workshop
During Readers Workshop this month,
we will be focusing on non-fiction books. We started our unit by comparing
fiction books to non-fiction books to see the difference between these texts.
The students learned that non-fiction books have special features like a table
of contents, headings, diagrams, photographs, captions, labels, and an index.
The students will use these non-fiction text features to preview their books
and think about what they will learn, figure out the big idea the author is
trying to teach them, and practice taking notes about the important facts they
learn. The students will still be reading their leveled fiction books during
this unit to continue working on their reading jobs and developing greater
fluency.
November Read-Aloud
First
grade will be exploring nonfiction in read-aloud for the month of
November. The purpose of this unit is
for students to read nonfiction texts across many topics and to learn how
to accumulate information.
GOALS:
·
Students will use comprehension skills in order
to accumulate information and retell a non fiction text.
·
Students will use non-fiction features in order
to accumulate information from a text.
In order to meet these
goals, here are some of lessons we will be focusing on:
2. Choosing "Just
Right" Non-Fiction Books.
3. Previewing Non-Fiction
Books to get an idea of what specifically they might be learning about the
subject.
4. Reading in small chunks
or one paragraph at a time, to monitor for meaning. Then stopping to
name the important thing that the author taught in that chunk or
paragraph.
6. Using Clues on the Page
to Figure Out Tricky Words.
7. Synthesizing - putting
together everything they are learning on a page by using all of the non-fiction
features (headings, photographs, and captions. diagram and labels)
November Writer's Workshop
Realistic Fiction
(Problem and
Solution Stories)
Hello Again Parents!
We have recently started a new
writing unit...Realistic Fiction!
Realistic Fiction stories have a made up
character dealing with a made up problem, but both the character and the
problem could be something that happens in real life.
Goals of the unit:
• Students will create a character and use that character to
create multiple stories (just like authors of our favorite series books).
• Students will use their knowledge of realistic fiction and story
elements to create stories with a problem and solution.
• Students will use elaboration techniques including dialogue,
3-step tiny action, and a new technique…thinking... to expand their stories in
meaningful ways.
• Students will learn that sometimes characters talk to other
characters (dialogue) and sometimes they talk to themselves (thinking).
• Students will edit their pieces by checking for capitals,
spelling of tappable words and trick words, and punctuation.
**Please allow your students time at
home to practice writing Realistic Fiction stories. Their writing improves with
each completed piece! We will be sending home writing paper over Thanksgiving
Break for the students to practice writing a Realistic Fiction story.**
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