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!