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!