Hello Families!
My camera went missing this week, so unfortunately I don't have any photos for you, but I do have a sneak peek. Here's what we were up to:
In Writers' Workshop we continue to work on our All About books. We set goals for our writing on Monday, worked on editing our best piece on Tuesday, learned about the Table of Contents of Wednesday, and began planning for a new All About book on Thursday. This writing unit has proven to be particularly difficult. Your writers could use some help coming up with topics that they are "experts" in. I'm modeling something we know a lot about: First Grade! We planned our chapters out then told what we would say in each chapter on our fingers. We should have at least 3 chapters and 5 sentences in each chapter. If you would help your first grader think about this at home, it would be appreciated!
In Readers' Workshop we finished up our Word Detectives unit. We learned more strategies to help us solve tricky words, focusing on vowel teams, word parts, contractions, and compound words. We then reminded ourselves how important it is to reread to smooth our our reading after we solve a tricky word. On Friday the Super Secret Detective Agency left clues for us to solve. Each clue was a word, and when we figured out the words and put them together in a sentence they said:
There is a surprise waiting for you outside the classroom door!We went to our door and found a big blue bag with a note on it:
"Congratulations, Word Detectives! We are so proud of all your hard work! We thought you could use your amazing skills to solve tricky words in these NEW BOOKS!
From,
The Super Secret Detective Agency
What a wonderful surprise! We can't wait to get to work solving tricky words in all of our new books! The SSDA left a phonics game for us, too!
In Math Workshop this week, we related subtraction problems to unknown partners. We then solved them by counting on. Orange Count-On cards were sent home on Tuesday to practice these skills at home. Your child should be fluent in these subtraction facts by the end of the school year. It's a good idea to make fact fluency a part of your daily homework routine.
In Science this week we learned to use a thermometer then recorded our room temperature, as well as the outside temperature three times during the day: AM, noon, and PM. We found that the air was the warmest in the morning. We then discussed what would happen if the sun was in the sky. We predicted that the air would be warmer when the sun was high above us in the afternoon. In our science notebooks, we each made our own thermometer.
On Wednesday we learned our November poem and enjoyed chicken soup with rice.
Our Star of the Week shared his talents with us:
creating remote control cars and playing soccer!
Next week's word wall words will be:
eat
if
jump
man
or
Until then...
Michelle
Star of the Week Schedule
Madelyn – December 5th-9th
Cameron - December 12th-16th
Giselle - January 9th-13th
Oscar – January 23rd - 27th
Alex P. – January 30th- February 3rd
Evy – February 6th -10th
Josh – February 13th-17th
Eleonore – February 27th- March 3rd
Darius – March 6th-10th
Alex M. – March 13th-17th
Brayden – March 20th-24th
Mark Your Calendars!
November 21st-December 16th: FIRST GRADE SERVICE PROJECT: Mitten Tree to benefit COA Youth & Family Centers
Friday, December 9: Report Cards Come Home
Wednesday, December 14: Early Release Day
Friday, December 23-Monday, January 2: Winter Break
Wednesday, January 11: Early Release Day
Monday, January 16: NO SCHOOL
Wednesday, February 8: Early Release Day
Monday, February 20: NO SCHOOL/Teacher In-Service Day
Wednesday, March 8: Early Release Day
Wednesday, March 22: Early Release Day
Thursday, March 23: Musical (2pm & 6:30pm)
Monday, March 27-Friday, March 31: Spring Break
Wednesday, April 12: Early Release Day
Friday, April 14: NO SCHOOL
Monday, April 17: NO SCHOOL/Teacher In-Service
Wednesday, April 26: Early Release Day
Wednesday, May 10: Early Release Day
Wednesday, May 24: Early release Day
Monday, May 29: NO SCHOOL
Thursday, June 8: Last day of First Grade!
See you later, Second Grader!
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