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This week, the students will continue learning about what it means to be a first grader!  We will be sharing about our likes and dislikes, learning about classroom rules and procedures, and sharing literature for Back to School!  All the while, we will be working in our habits of good readers, voice level procedures, and working on transitioning!

Additionally, we will be working on developing good habits of reading.  We will learn how to pick good books, read both the words and the pictures, and to find the title and author of a given book.  These tools will be important as we dive into the curriculum in a few weeks!

Students will learn more about concepts of print, and how literature can help us learn about the world around us.  Our first unit teaches the students to see themselves as readers, as they explore the library, and determine goals for themselves as readers. 

The writing tasks in this unit will give the students the opportunity to write about the information they are learning as they read!  We will explore a variety of texts and use what we learn about Small Moment stories to write about things that have happened to us!

In Fundations, the students will continue Unit 2 where they will be blending letters and sounds to make real words.  Students will be concentrating on using short vowels with known consonant sounds to produce these one syllable words.  We will also be working on sounding out some made-up words to help them with sounding out and blending sounds.

We will use some hands-on activities to build words on our magnet boards and we will use magnetic chips, and we will use some whole body word building to learn about new trick words.  These words are not phonetic and need to be learned by heart.  We will concentrate on the heart part of the word and use these words to fill our sound wall.

The Fundations Unit packets that comes home with the students at the beginning of each new unit has some helpful ideas for word work and trick words at home.  While the activities are completely optional, they provide great ideas for activities to support phonics at home.

In Writing, the students will be practicing writing sentences with lots of guidance and support.  We will model sentence writing and structure and write in our journals!  

Students are currently working on Small Moment Writing where they are writing stories to tell about things that have happened to them!  We will talk about some memorable times/events and will help the students to write about them.  The purpose of this unit is to have the students plan before they write, sequence a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and understand the basic concepts of sentence structure, including capital letters and punctuation.