Specials
Monday - 4
Tuesday - 5
Wednesday -6
Thursday - 1
Friday - Non-Rotation Day
Upcoming Events & Reminders
January 23 - 99th Day. Dress in all black!
January 24 - 100th Day. Dress like you live 100 years into the future
January 27 - Non-rotation day. STEM Day
February 3 - Tentative date for 2nd grading period awards
February 20 - President's Day. No School
Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can read, write, and identify words with the -igh spelling pattern.
I can write to tell my opinion and support it with at least 2 reasons.
I can correctly tell time to the hour.
I can determine whether information in a text came from the pictures or the words.
I can correctly match a verb to its singular or plural noun.
Week in Review
Hi everyone! :)
We started our 4-day week with a refresher on why we did not have school on Monday. I don't know if you are familiar with Kid President but he often has very powerful videos that are presented in a kid-friendly way. Here is his video on MLK Jr. that we watched Tuesday morning.
We used his video as a quick refresher that helped lead us into our writing prompt for the day. The kids LOVE to tell their opinions in writing - and they sure do have a lot of opinions. :-P
The exciting piece for the week was our Cutest Pet Contest. The kids either brought in a photograph or illustrated one. I insisted that Max was the cutest pet of all and several of the kids were ready to argue their pets for the win! We talked about how sometimes you need to persuade someone to believe your opinion. Here are some of our persuasive pieces.
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January 23 - 99th Day. Dress in all black!
January 24 - 100th Day. Dress like you live 100 years into the future
January 27 - Non-rotation day. STEM Day
February 3 - Tentative date for 2nd grading period awards
February 20 - President's Day. No School
Spelling List
LIST A
high
night
sigh
light
fight
tight
bright
slight
LIST B
bright
slight
fright
light
might
delight
tonight
knight
I can read, write, and identify words with the -igh spelling pattern.
I can write to tell my opinion and support it with at least 2 reasons.
I can correctly tell time to the hour.
I can determine whether information in a text came from the pictures or the words.
I can correctly match a verb to its singular or plural noun.
Week in Review
Hi everyone! :)
We started our 4-day week with a refresher on why we did not have school on Monday. I don't know if you are familiar with Kid President but he often has very powerful videos that are presented in a kid-friendly way. Here is his video on MLK Jr. that we watched Tuesday morning.
We used his video as a quick refresher that helped lead us into our writing prompt for the day. The kids LOVE to tell their opinions in writing - and they sure do have a lot of opinions. :-P
The exciting piece for the week was our Cutest Pet Contest. The kids either brought in a photograph or illustrated one. I insisted that Max was the cutest pet of all and several of the kids were ready to argue their pets for the win! We talked about how sometimes you need to persuade someone to believe your opinion. Here are some of our persuasive pieces.
As we complete our Penguin Unit, we will be choosing the most interesting penguin and explaining why we think they are so interesting.
We kept up our penguin research by studying the Gentoo and Chinstrap Penguins this week!
The kids have been working on completing research independently.
We also had some fun with Shades of Meaning this week! Shades of Meaning help set the groundwork for synonyms. We learned that shades of meaning help authors turn their stories into more exciting stories by using verbs that are very similar but are a SHADE different. At the end of the week, we made some Shades of Meaning Super Heroes.
In Math, we continued our Measurement and Data unit by creating and interpreting graphs! We have discussed the importance of how graphs can help us and how we can analyze the data they show.
These kiddos are showing off how they analyzed their snowman data!
We have one more day of data tomorrow before we assess in the afternoon. Next up: TELLING TIME!!!
TurtleDiary has a fun, simple game to practice turning an analog clock into a digital clock. Your first grader can use this to practice time telling at home (of course, you can practice in many other ways, too!)
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