First Grade News 9-25-20

 Hi! It's been another great week! We are having so much fun! We have a bunch of hard working, creative and friendly kids! They make everything we do fun with their enthusiasm and eagerness to learn. 

Reading and Language Arts

We had fun reading the class book we made, Wishy-Washy Kids. It came home today. Make sure your child reads it to you. We read the book, Quick as a Cricket, and worked with contractions. We used the pattern in the book to make a new book called, First Grade Superheroes. It was a multi step project which had us painting a sunset, creating a city skyline, getting our picture taken as we flew through the air and writing about ourselves. We worked with the reading strategies of looking at the pictures to get the meaning of the story and getting our mouth ready with the first sound to figure out words.

Math

We worked with reading and writing tally marks, writing numbers 1-20, counting by 1, 2, 5 and 10. We practiced counting up and back from various numbers on a number line. We played Rolling for 50, Penny/Dice game, Bunny Hop and Rock, Paper, Scissors. We started our unit one assessment. This is given one on one to make sure math is assessed not reading. It also lets me take notes on strategies that they use as they work on problems.

Extra Items

* We took the Math and Reading NWEAs this week. These are online standardized assessments that let us know exactly where each student is and where we should go next.

* In Go2Science we learned about gastroliths and how fossilized poop can tell us lots about an animal and the habitat that it had lived in. We are learning lots about avian and non avian dinosaurs. 

* We became paleontologists and actually went on our own fossil dig. Ask your child how many fossils they dug up with their toothpicks and paintbrushes. 

* We found Silly Putty in the Guess Box. 

* We dug up the potatoes in the school garden. We can't wait to try the potato salad Betsy is going to make for school lunches sometime!

* We pretended we were Mrs./Mr. Wishy-Washy and washed our towels and/or blankets. The kids LOVED putting their towel/blanket in the washing machine. Maybe a new chore? ;)

Happy Weekend!