Fire Safety is an informative and fun event at CCS
Math in action:
Writing in First Grade:
Our focus has been on community building as well as refreshing our letter names & sounds and handwriting skills. Please ask your child where to start their letters! We have also begun our first writing unit! First graders began writing small moment stories. We are learning ‘How to Write a Story’ and are using Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements as our mentor text. We learned how to think of an idea, plan our writing by ‘touch and tell, sketch then write’ and then to write! As you talk with your child, share your day in small moment stories! First graders are also continuing to focus on lowercase letter formation during word study as well as reviewing letter names and their most common sounds. Please continue to support your child by holding them accountable for legible lowercase writing!
Second Grade Writing.....
Our personal narrative writing unit is in full swing! Here are the writing skills we have been developing:
Mentor texts:
We are also embedding review of spelling skills and handwriting.
Reading Workshop:
Learning to choose a just right book, taking sneak peaks, talking about the books we read and building our stamina to read independently.
We will embed poetry into our reading and literacy work board along with responses to books
Monarchs!
We have already filled our penny jar-we earned 170 pennies so far this month.
We had an impromptu team wide celebration with an extra recess and free choice in the classroom on Friday afternoon-way to go 1-2!!
Some of the books we have read...
