PICS FROM WEEK ENDING 1-10-20

We did math many different ways this week.

We did scrolls, games, assessments, Level Up, chrome books and...

we even finished our first math book!

We are traveling through space and keeping track of what we

see and learn in our FAMILY OF THE SUN books.

Lots of creativity going on during Inside Recess today.

 

HAPPY WEEKEND! 

NEWSLETTER 1-20-20

Hi. We’ve had a great week! We are having fun as we travel through space. We are currently on Mars. We are keeping all of our space information in our FAMILY OF THE SUN books. We will continue with Space and Maps through February break.

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

We started stations in Reading Workshop. We do three twenty-five minute rotations that consist of Phonics work on the Chrome books, Spelling / Big Books and Book Boxes. During this time I pull small groups for Guided Reading.

We finished our Snow Baby Stories. They are hanging in the hall. We can’t wait to bring them home to share them with you! We also wrote about Winter activities on a mitten and our favorite thing to do in winter.

We have new writing folders. We are learning to use the word lists and thesaurus in them. It also has an editing list to help us remember the skills we are working on.

MATH

We finished our first Math Book! We are working on our Unit Five assessment. We will start our new book next week. We started Level Up Math. The kids try to beat the clock and successfully complete 25 problems. If they do, they try the next level the following day. If not, the fix mistakes or finish the paper for homework and try again the following day.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

• ●  A huge THANK YOU to Eli for donating a bag of treats for the treat box today!
  
• ●  No school Monday, January 20 - Martin Luther King Day
  
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• HAPPY WEEKEND!

PICS FROM WEEK ENDING 1-3-20

A few pictures left from before break.

Having fun with Wikki Stix.

Working in groups to unscramble sentences.

We "toasted" the New Year!

We wrote toasts to our classmates, made toast people and...

made our own toast to eat! YUM!

We added lots of Space Toys to our building tools.

 We read the book, THE SNOW CHILD, and then stuffed

our own Snow Baby! We then made snowmen shaped books

that we will write a story in about our new friend.

Our new friends...they're so soft and cuddly!

For a two day week we certainly got a lot done and 

more importantly...we had fun doing it! 

HAPPY WEEKEND!

FIRST GRADE NEWS 1-3-20

Hi! It’s great to be back at school with the kids. They look well rested and seem to have grown a foot! I always love this time of year in first grade. The kids start to really take off and get more independent in their own learning. We also have some of the best units ahead! Our new Science unit will be on Space and our new Social Studies unit will be on Maps.

We took some time to ease back into school these past two days. We spent Thursday toasting the New Year...literally, we made toast! We also talked about our goals for the remainder of grade one. On Friday, we had some fun with snowmen. We read, ​THE SNOW CHILD,​ and made our own stuffed snowman. We had fun reading to them and writing stories about them.

SOME NEW THINGS

We will begin two new things next week. The first being what we do for Morning Work. The kids will be practicing their ELA and Math skills independently when they come in each morning. We will then go over what they do together. These papers will not look graded when they come home since we will go over them together. If you happen to notice something that your child has not fixed or finished, please talk about the skills with them.

During Math, 3-5 times a week, we will begin our lesson with Level Up Math. This is a fun way to practice math facts. Students will try to do as many math facts as they can in four minutes. If they finish all 25 successfully, they will level up the next day. If they do not finish or get some wrong, they take home to fix/complete for homework. Then they will try again the next day. This is our order of skills: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. (Yes, some first graders have even made it to division!) There are about 10-14 levels in each skill.

HOMEWORK

Math and Reading homework will pick back up next week. Spelling lists will begin to come home again on Mondays. As your child starts reading longer books you may keep the book a couple of nights, share the book (you can take turns reading pages) or have them read their favorite 2-3 pages. Sometimes, I may have them just finish their book at home. They will know what to do. Their Morning Work and Level Up Math papers will be in their folders as well.

Here’s to a great 2020!