Specials
Monday - 2 (Hats off to Reading - Hat Day)
Tuesday - 3 (Snuggle up and Read - PJ Day)
Wednesday - 4 (Be a Reading All-Star - Jersey Day)
Thursday - 5 (Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! - wacky styles)
Friday - 6 (Reading Pays Off - Career Day)
Upcoming Events & Reminders
February 21-March 10 - Jump Rope for Heart
March 7 - Family Fun Night at Sky Zone
March 8 - Field trip to EKU
March 10 - Arty Party Day - Nonrotation
March 16th - PTA Meeting
March 17th - Weather Makeup Day School is in Session
March 24 - Report Cards go home
April 3-7 - SPRING BREAK!
April 21 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
April 24-28 Book Fair
April 27 - 1st grade to Cincinnati Zoo! We were very persuasive in our writing to convince Mrs. Strange to let us go!
April 27 - Celebrate the Arts Night
April 29 - PTA Carnival 2-7pm
May 2-19 - K-PREP Testing Window. This means our schedule will be different during this time.
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Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can read, write, and identify words with l blends and r blends.
I can write to tell a fictional story.
I can use place value to understand two digit numbers.
I can tell whether equations are equal or unequal.
I can ask and answer questions about a text.
I can categorize items and understand their relationships.
Week in Review
Sometimes it feels like we pack the most stuff into these 4 day weeks. Shoo!
On Tuesday, we saw the jump rope team from ACE kick off our Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.
In Math, we ventured into adding 3 NUMBERS!!! Can you believe it?!
The girls above are doing the "grab, sort, add" activity. In first grade, it is SO important to keep math as concrete as possible. Plus, who doesn't love to play with cubes? They had the opportunity to grab 3 colors of cubes, sort them, and then add the numbers together. This helped them see they already knew how to add 3 numbers without even realizing it!
We also discussed strategies like making a 10 and looking for doubles. The kids did amazing (as always).
I have been blessed with a class who has astounding number sense. The picture above was taken in the middle of one of our number talks (AKA before they managed to fill up my desk with all of their answers). In a number talk, the kids are challenged to solve problems mentally and explain their thinking aloud. In this particular talk, the challenge was to use the numbers shown to make the difference equal to 2. My job is to facilitate discussion and record their thinking - not give an answer. Kids were using fingers, number lines, decomposing numbers, making a larger sum to take away a number, the list goes on and on. Your kids are WONDERFUL!
In Reading, we began to study fairy tales.
This week's fairy tale:
Have a great week!
February 21-March 10 - Jump Rope for Heart
March 7 - Family Fun Night at Sky Zone
March 8 - Field trip to EKU
March 10 - Arty Party Day - Nonrotation
March 16th - PTA Meeting
March 17th - Weather Makeup Day School is in Session
March 24 - Report Cards go home
April 3-7 - SPRING BREAK!
April 21 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
April 24-28 Book Fair
April 27 - 1st grade to Cincinnati Zoo! We were very persuasive in our writing to convince Mrs. Strange to let us go!
April 27 - Celebrate the Arts Night
April 29 - PTA Carnival 2-7pm
May 2-19 - K-PREP Testing Window. This means our schedule will be different during this time.
Spelling List
LIST A
clock
flag
globe
slip
grin
crib
dress
tree
flag
globe
slip
grin
crib
dress
tree
LIST B
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brick
sloth
blanket
glasses
flower
I can read, write, and identify words with l blends and r blends.
I can write to tell a fictional story.
I can use place value to understand two digit numbers.
I can tell whether equations are equal or unequal.
I can ask and answer questions about a text.
I can categorize items and understand their relationships.
Week in Review
Sometimes it feels like we pack the most stuff into these 4 day weeks. Shoo!
On Tuesday, we saw the jump rope team from ACE kick off our Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.
On the same day, we kicked off our fictional narrative unit!
The kids are having a BLAST with this writing unit. We started by talking about how great we are at being storytellers already because we have ALL pretended to be someone else at recess, playing dress up, playing with a sibling, etc. On day 1, we had a writer's theater and just had fun pretending to tell a story.
The problem? None of it made sense! Why would you have a librarian riding a unicorn just to enter a city and say, "Hi!"? So on Day 2, we talked about how characters have to match the setting!
We did a gallery walk of settings like castles, haunted houses, and sports events. While at each setting, the kids had a chance to include some characters they might find there. The kids mastered the understanding that the character and setting MUST go together! So...we did another writer's theater and the results were SO improved.
The kids have already chosen their own settings and characters. I am so excited!
In Math, we ventured into adding 3 NUMBERS!!! Can you believe it?!
The girls above are doing the "grab, sort, add" activity. In first grade, it is SO important to keep math as concrete as possible. Plus, who doesn't love to play with cubes? They had the opportunity to grab 3 colors of cubes, sort them, and then add the numbers together. This helped them see they already knew how to add 3 numbers without even realizing it!
We also discussed strategies like making a 10 and looking for doubles. The kids did amazing (as always).
I have been blessed with a class who has astounding number sense. The picture above was taken in the middle of one of our number talks (AKA before they managed to fill up my desk with all of their answers). In a number talk, the kids are challenged to solve problems mentally and explain their thinking aloud. In this particular talk, the challenge was to use the numbers shown to make the difference equal to 2. My job is to facilitate discussion and record their thinking - not give an answer. Kids were using fingers, number lines, decomposing numbers, making a larger sum to take away a number, the list goes on and on. Your kids are WONDERFUL!
In Reading, we began to study fairy tales.
This week's fairy tale:
Kids were introduced to Point of View:
(the above poster is not mine - I somehow managed to get out of the building without snapping a picture but it gets the same point across!)
After reading the regular version of Jack and the Beanstalk on Tuesday (and identifying pronouns because first graders are awesome enough to do that), we read a different P.O.V.
To be fair, we also heard the other side:
With each text, we identified the person telling the story by using keywords in the text. On Fridays throughout this unit, we will be reading Fractured Fairytales. This year, I was unable to get my hands on one of my favorite fractured versions of Jack:
so if you see it at the library, it is worth reading!
Instead, we read another beloved character of mine:
These Little Critter books bring back all kinds of memories!
At the end of the week, we visited the 4th grader's Wax Museum. Here are some photos from that great event. The kids LOVED seeing their book buddies and siblings...and they even saw some of our African American Achievers!
