April 25-29, 2016

Specials

Monday - 4

Tuesday - 5

Wednesday - 6

Thursday - 1

Friday - 2

Upcoming Events 

April 28 - FAST Test. We will take our second and final test 10-10:50. Rest up!
May 5 - 1st grade Field Trip to Cincinnati Zoo
May 6 - George Ella Lyon visits Wellington!
May 14 - PTA Spring Carnival 2-7pm
May 16 - 1st Grade Musical (1:00 and 5:30 in the gym)
May 17 - No school (Election Day)
May 20 - Fun Day
May 23 - 1st Grade Student-Lead Conferences

May 26 - Last Day of school! This day will also include our first grade awards in the classroom and a family picnic!

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can write about the Derby!
I can understand and apply concepts of counting money (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters).
I can read, write, and identify words with ow and ou spelling patterns.
I can read, write, and identify types of sentences.
I can identify reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Spelling Lists

A

count
loud
sound
house
plow
shower
growl
town
power

B

couch
shout
found
mouth
amount
howl
flower
crowd
eyebrow

Week in Review
With a few technical difficulties in terms of pictures, please bare with me this week if the pictures goof up!
We worked hard on prepositions this week. We used the rule of answering the question, "Where can a mouse go?"

We also wrapped up our fictional narrative unit! We brainstormed some transition words and put them in our writing pieces.

We met with our partners to see if they noticed anything we might want to fix in our writing.

Finally, we celebrated with our Publishing Party!

We celebrated our finished pieces by reading them to our partners again (this time just for fun - no more editing!)

After we read our pieces to our partners, everyone "sprinkled" their partners with compliments.

Of course, we couldn't wait until the actual donut part of our party. :)

"Mrs. Carney...how many do we get? I just want to be sure."

In math...the kids were PUMPED to finally work on telling time. In first grade, we focus on telling time to the hour and half hour.

To help us get started, we sorted activities by how long they take to complete. This helped us understand just how short a second is and how long an hour can be.

The next day was when we began to dig into the characteristics of the clock.
We worked as a group to count by 5s around the clock.

 Leland thought this was awesome. :)

 We practiced our clock skills in a few different ways...

Shade practiced rolling times with a dice and drawing them on his analog clock. Henry and RaeLynn helped me build our clock using index cards and connecting cubes. This helped us remember the 5 minutes between each number on the clock!

 We got better and better every day!

To wrap it up...we worked with a partner to build and label the parts of a clock. By the end of the week, we got to make our own clock and write about the time we made it say!

Here are our final pieces that we each made independently! We wrote "My clock says ____. My hour hand is on the ___ and my minute hand is on the ____." 

Have a great week!

April 18-22, 2015

Specials

Monday - 5

Tuesday - 6

Wednesday - 1

Thursday - 2

Friday - 3

Upcoming Events 
April 22 - 1st Grade Movie Day! Please return permission slips by Wednesday.

April 28 - FAST Test. We will take our second and final test 10-10:50. Rest up!
May 5 - 1st grade Field Trip to Cincinnati Zoo
May 6 - George Ella Lyon visits Wellington!
May 14 - PTA Spring Carnival 2-7pm
May 16 - 1st Grade Musical (1:00 and 5:30 in the gym)
May 17 - No school (Election Day)
May 20 - Fun Day
May 23 - 1st Grade Student-Lead Conferences

May 26 - Last Day :( 

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can write a fictional narrative with a conclusion.
I can understand and apply concepts of telling time (to the hour and half hour).
I can read, write, and identify ending consonant blends.
I can read, write, and identify prepositions in a sentence.
I can compare characters in a text.

Spelling Lists

A

best
just
trust
end
kind
plant
want
land
tent
twist

B

must
trust
blend
stand
find
student
different
important
twist
trend

Wish List

Pink Erasers

Week in Review

 We had a wacky week with tricky schedule changes last week but we made it through!

The kids had a blast watching School House Rock's "Conjunction Junction" (more than once!)

We did a super quick activity to plant a zucchini plant in our room! 

 We are using our plant as a way to practice informational writing during Work on Writing. These guys are choosing that option during W.O.W. :)

 We practiced matching the text to our illustrations for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 

We learned a funny phonics chant to help us remember Mr. Y steals the sounds of e and i at the end of a word. 

 We practiced putting the months of the year in order and sorted them by season.

 We discussed the elements of a calendar and worked in groups to build our own April Calendar.

 We also filled out our own calendars and filled them in with some "important dates" from our classroom.

 We were so proud!

Have a great week!

April 11 - 15, 2016

Specials

Monday - 6

Tuesday - 1

Wednesday - 2

Thursday - 3

Friday - 4

Upcoming Events

April 11-15 - Book Fair. Book Fair is open from 8-2:30 Monday-Thursday, 8-12 on Friday. Our class is scheduled to go at 1:00 on Wednesday. You are welcome to send money for your child to go on a different day but our class will go together on that day.
April 13 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast

April 14 - FAST Test. We will take our first test 8-8:50. Rest up! :)

April 14 - Celebrate the Arts Night 

April 15 - Student Recognition awards (10AM in the gym)
**I will e-mail you tomorrow if your child is receiving an award on Friday**
April 28 - FAST Test. We will take our second and final test 10-10:50. Rest up!
May 5 - 1st grade Field Trip to Cincinnati Zoo
May 6 - George Ella Lyon visits Wellington!
May 14 - PTA Spring Carnival 2-7pm
May 16 - 1st Grade Musical (1:00 and 5:30 in the gym)
May 17 - No school (Election Day)
May 20 - Fun Day
May 23 - 1st Grade Student-Lead Conferences

May 26 - Last Day :( 

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can write a fictional narrative with a conclusion.
I can understand and apply calendar concepts.
I can read, write, and identify y as a vowel.
I can read, write, and identify conjunctions in a sentence.
I can compare characters in a text.

Spelling Lists

A

baby
every
family
body
fly
sky
dry
spy
happy
try

B

story
hungry
party
every
family
scary
try
sky
dry
buy

Wish List

Pink Erasers

Week in Review

We continued working on our Fictional Narratives. We are so close to the end! Our authors are troopers.

During Language, we practiced putting commas in sentences with lists.

 We practiced by making a sentence with someone in the class representing each word.

 We wrote the sentences we built.

 We took turns being the teacher to correctly place the commas in a Smart Board Quiz.

 And we practiced writing grocery lists! We were all very excited about the popsicle option. :)

Math was all about fractions this week. We used the best real-world example we could think of: pizza. To kick the week off, we talked about equal vs. unequal. Below, you see us mid-conversation about how we solved a real-world problem (I want cheese pizza, but Mrs. Long wants pepperoni!). We decided it was fair and equal to split the toppings down the middle. This allowed us to discuss the concept of "one half."

 We applied our knowledge of one-half and equal parts by making our own two-topping pizzas.

 We wrote about it and shared our hard work in the hallway. :)

 The next day, we shifted our thinking into the shapes we practiced composing a few weeks ago. We sorted the parts of these shapes as equal or unequal.

 Then I put them to the test: identifying equal vs. unequal parts on their own!

We did SO WELL with this concept that I had to work quick to figure out what we could do to actually challenge these guys! The next day, we each got our own shapes and had to be responsible for partitioning these shapes into halves. But, because we are first graders, we didn't stop there. We had to put stickers on one half of our shape and, of course, write about it.

 First graders aren't expected to be able to write the fractions out as 1/2, but I knew we could handle it!

We ended the week by moving on from halves and into fourths. We continued the pizza theme by choosing four toppings to make our pizzas into equal quarters. Of course, these first graders nailed it.

Here's to another great week!