This past week Stormonth hosted another Scholastic Book Fair. It was great to hear about how many of our students were able to attend and purchase new books! Thank you so much to everyone who was able to donate coins. Stormonth raised over $2,000! This, along with the very generous gift certificates I received, allowed me to purchase a great collection of new fiction and nonfiction books for our classroom library. Here they are:
During Writer's Workshop this week we continued to work on our persuasive writing pieces.
After seeing the Ivy and Bean musical on Monday, we each wrote a review of it. Everyone did a terrific job using what they know about opinion writing to write top-notch reviews of the show! Here's one of our reviewers busy at work: 
This week we also selected our best review to share in small groups of writers who wrote a similar review. Here we are sharing our reviews and giving each other feedback based on what we noticed each writer did to convince their reader:
During guidance this week we learned about the Peace Bridge. The Peace Bridge is a tool on our playground that we can use to help solve problems. Ask your first grader to tell you about some of the steps on the Peace Bridge. Here we are practicing:
We were not only lucky to have the Irish Dancers come and perform for us, but we have one of the dancers right in our classroom! She demonstrated her skills for us the day after the performance!
One of our lessons in math this week found us working in small groups to devise and use a systematic way to count large quantities of objects. We discovered that we could count the objects much faster and more accurately when we put them into groups of tens and left-over ones. Here is one of our small groups working together:
In science we separated ink into its component colors. We discovered that some mixtures (marker colors) contain "hidden" substances that are revealed only when the mixture is separated. We used black and green ink, a water dropper and a coffee filter to separate these inks into their component colors. Ask your first grader to tell you what happened!
In Reader's Workshop we continue to add to our growing list of strategies we can use when we come to tricky words always with our focus being on comprehension. Hopefully you're seeing your first grader using these strategies when s/he is reading to you at home.
Thanks for stopping by the blog to read about another fun week in first grade!
Michelle Mullen
Mark Your Calendars:
March 28: Spring break begins
April 6: First day back
April 7: Referendum VOTE. Please check the district website tab titled
Referendum Update for more information about the referendum.
April 15: Early Release
April 29: Early Release
May 13: Early Release
May 25: Memorial Day holiday
May 27: Early Release
May 28: Schlitz Audubon field trip
June 10: Tentative date for first grade's "Show & Share" family picnic
June 12: Last day of first grade
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