Newsletter for September 21-25

So sorry about skipping a week with the newsletter. It has been very busy in our 1st grade classroom and it honestly slipped my mind! Just as a quick reminder, every child has now brought their bag of books home with them. When your child brings their bag of books home, it means that they have received a new book from me and they are to read at home with their family. The kids love their bag of books and they get so upset when they forget to bring it back to school because they won't have anything to read for familiar reading time. Also, I love seeing all of the field trip money coming for our trip to the Magic House! Permission slips are due back on Monday the 21st :) 

Reading/Units of Study: We will be able to ask and answer questions about a text. We will be able to identify details that make a story a small moments personal narrative.
Writer's Workshop: We will be able to include feelings and details to write a small moment personal narrative. We will able to include an opening, beginning, middle, end and a closing. A personal narrative is a true story about ourselves. A small moment personal narrative is about one specific event in our lives. For example, I could write a narrative about all the things I do with Parker during one day, but to make it a small moment, I would write about one specific event during a day. Instead of writing about everything we did, I would just write about going to the playground.
Math: We will be able to use models to find the missing part. We will be able to solve different types of subtraction problems. We will understand the meaning of subtract, difference and subtraction sentence.
Phonics: We will be able to read and write words with the ai and ay. The skill this week is learning about the ai and ay vowel teams. A vowel team is 2 vowels working together to make one long vowel sound. “When 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking” is a great way to remember the rule for vowel teams! Our rule about ai is that is used mostly in the middle of words and ay is found at the end of words. There are a few rule breakers, but this is the rule for most words. Have fun practicing this week! Here are our words for the week: rain, paid, brain, say, day, wait, claim, trait, stay, wait, gray, play. Also, here are some videos and games that will help with learning about the ai and ay vowel teams!
Spelling Strategy: When To Use ai Or ay

Between the Lions: Cliff Hanger & the Rain
ai/ay Rap (Electric Company)
Between the Lions: When Two Vowels Go Walking
ai Making Words Game
Galactic Phonics ay Game
My Favorite - SPELLING CITY!!!!