We had an unexpected short week due to illness in our building. I hope everyone was able to either get well this weekend or stay healthy! Here's a sneak peek at our four days together:
Writer's Workshop
We continue to be busy with our nonfiction books where we are teaching others about topics we are experts at. We revisited different ways to spell tricky words, but this time we focused on domain-specific words. These words can be very tricky, so we really need to slow down and take our time when we are using all we know to spell them well. Our writing partners were a great help to us this week as they helped us add and subtract information in our teaching books. Setting writing goals was part of our week as well. We took a very close look again at the nonfiction writing revision and editing checklists and highlighted two areas we felt we need to work on. We also worked together to edit a teaching book. Here we are making corrections:
Reader's Workshop
Our reading lessons are fitting in very nicely with our writing lessons as we're focusing on solving tricky words in reading. We also began looking at nonfiction text features including diagrams and key words.
We began the Double Decker Bus mini-unit in math this week. Everyone is really enjoying this unit, especially using our rekenreks to show our thinking and using what we know about numbers to tell how many beads are on the disappearing arithmetic racks during our lessons. Thank you so much to everyone who has been able to bring in new children's mittens for our Annual First Grade Service Project: The Mitten Tree! We're hoping to fill our branches this week with new mittens for children in need.
Next Week's Word Wall Words:
her
make
him
into
us
Until then...
Michelle
Mark Your Calendars!
December 18: Share Your Talent Day &
Mitten Tree collection ends
Mitten Tree collection ends
December 23rd-January 3rd: Winter Break
January 13: Early Release Day
January 18: No School
January 22: Ivy & Bean at Marquette
January 27: Early Release Day
February 2: Bedtime Stories First Grade Event 6:30-7:30
February 10: Early Release Day & Conferences
February 11: Conferences
February 12: Valentine's Day Celebration
February 15: No School for Students/ Conferences in PM
February 24: Early Release Day
March 9: Early Release Day
March 25: No School
April 13: Early Release Day
April 19: Schlitz Audubon
April 22: No School for Students
April 27: Early Release Day
May 11: Early Release Day
May 25: Early Release Day
May 30: No School
June 9: Last day of first grade
Rex is excited to come back!
ReplyDeleteEveryone was so happy to see him today, and we're looking forward to celebrating his birthday on Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteThanks for another great update, we love seeing what the kids are up to in your classroom! xx, The McGregors
ReplyDeleteThanks for another great update, we love seeing what the kids are up to in your classroom!
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