October 30 - November 3, 2017

Specials

Monday - 5

Tuesday - 6 (Character Day! Wear your book character costume!)

Wednesday - 1

Thursday - 2

Friday - 3

*Reference the brochure you received on Welcome to Wellington Night to know what each day is for specials!*

Upcoming Events & Reminders
October 31 - Book Character Day, Junie B. Jamboree!
Use this link to volunteer or donate items for our Jamboree!
Jamboree Volunteer Signups!
November 9 - Picture Makeups
ELL dinner at 6pm
November 10 - 1st grading period awards (10AM)
November 14, 15, 16 - Thanksgiving lunch dates (ours is the 15th)
November 22-24 - Thanksgiving Break - No school
December 4 - MAP testing window opens
December 20-January 2 - Winter Break - No school

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with ending blends.
I can make nouns possessive by adding 's.
I can write to tell my opinion.
I can solve addition by using strategies like doubles.
I can retell a story with a beginning, middle, and end. 

Spelling Words
fast
lend
past
send
sink
wink

Sight Words
eat
no
of
under
who
many

Week in Review
Hi everyone! I hope you had a great Red Ribbon Week! I apologize that I was out at the end of the week and wanted to let you know that I will also be out at the end of this week. Have no fear - things will be back to normal by next week! 

We are gearing up for another wild week at Wellington with BOOK CHARACTER DAY coming up! Book Character Day is always a hit as students get to dress up as their favorite characters and go on a parade around the building. We will also celebrate with a Junie B. Jamboree and pumpkin investigation!

Here's a short look back at the week:
We have been focusing on telling whether equations are BALANCED.

 We practiced in our groups all week long.

By the end of the week, some of us were even leading the class in a fun game! In this game, the students saw only half of a balanced equation. The teacher at the board thought of a mystery way to make the equation balanced and the students had to guess the mystery way. It was such a great way to help us practice what "equal" means, as well as practice our addition facts!

In writing, we have been focusing on writing our opinions. We learned how to use the OREO method.
The OREO method is
O-Opinion
R- Reason
E - Extra reason
O - Opinion

We read some funny books this week to help us tell our opinion in response to our books.
In this story, a girl insists that she NEEDS a pair of earrings! 

We then spent time talking about what we think we "need" as the perfect gift!

Here are some of our examples:

"My opinion is a Rubik's Cube. You can make it be a cube. I like solving it. They are fun to solve."

Looking for a way to make your reading at home this week more meaningful? Try asking your first grader about their OPINION of what happens in the story!

Here's another tip:

We use these 3 strategies to help us figure out tricky words in our book in class. Try asking your first grader to use these strategies instead of just "sounding it out." 

Have a great week!

October 23-27, 2017

Specials

Monday - 6

Tuesday - 1

Wednesday - 2

Thursday - 3

Friday - 4

*Reference the brochure you received on Welcome to Wellington Night to know what each day is for specials!*

Upcoming Events & Reminders
October 23-27 - Red Ribbon Week
October 27 - School is now IN session and Report Cards go home
October 31 - Book Character Day, Junie B. Jamboree!
Use this link to volunteer or donate items for our Jamboree!
Jamboree Volunteer Signups!
November 10 - 1st grading period awards (10AM)
November 14, 15, 16 - Thanksgiving lunch dates
November 22-24 - Thanksgiving Break

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with short u.
I can make nouns plural by adding s and es.
I can write to tell my opinion.
I can solve addition by using the commutative property.
I can identify the character, setting, and events in a story.

Spelling Words
bug
cut
fun
nut
rug
run

Sight Words
could
live
one
then
three
by

Week in Review
Our focus in Language throughout this unit is Nouns! We started this week by learning that a noun can be a person, a place, or a thing. We worked as a class to create a collaborative Noun Town! (I'll have to post a picture of it when the finished product is ready!) This was a great way for students to think about the nouns they see all over Lexington.


We also created our very own Noun Trains. We discussed how Trains take people to places with their things. So, we each chose our own noun stories to put on our personalized trains.








In reading, our Wonders series focused on Community Helpers! We read about mailmen, trash collectors, fire fighters, and many other helpers in the community. To apply our understanding, the students had the opportunity to create masks and "scripts" of their potential role as a community helper!








We had fun learning about the difference between facts and opinions this week, too! We used this book:

to help us express our opinions. We had a lot of great discussion about whether we think this sneaky animal is a duck or a rabbit!

In math, we wrapped up missing addends by building our word problem equations.

 

Then we moved right into balancing equations and making flip-flop facts!


In first grade, students need to understand that 2+3=3+2. In addition, the numbers can commute, or travel!

We also discuss balancing equations by deciding whether number sentences are true (equal) or not true (unequal). This is always so much fun because our students finally start to understand the meaning of that equals sign!

Finally, Mrs. Rogers helped us understand the reason behind Red Ribbon Week with a cool sponge demonstration (ask your first grader about it!)



We will celebrate Red Ribbon Week all week long with fun ways to dress up!
I hope you have a FABULOUS week!

October 16-20, 2017

Specials

Monday - 2

Tuesday - 3

Wednesday - 4

Thursday - 5

Friday - Nonrotation Day

*Reference the brochure you received on Welcome to Wellington Night to know what each day is for specials!*

Upcoming Events & Reminders
October 17 - Fall Pictures
October 20 - PTA Fall Festival
October 23-27 - Red Ribbon Week
October 27 - School is now IN session and Report Cards go home
October 31 - Book Character Day, Junie B. Jamboree!
Use this link to volunteer or donate items for our Jamboree!
Jamboree Volunteer Signups!

November 10 - Tentative date for 1st grading period awards (10AM)
November 14, 15, 16 - Thanksgiving lunch dates
November 22-24 - Thanksgiving Break

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with short e.
I can identify and sort nouns.
I can write to tell my opinion.
I can solve addition with missing addends.
I can identify the character, setting, and events in a story.

Spelling Words
leg
beg
men
hen
head
bread

Sight Words
help
there
new
use
again

Week in Review
We have worked so hard on identifying key details and using features in texts. These two things help us to ensure we are using the complete text to help us understand what the author is telling us. This week, our texts focused on movement. By the end of the week, our students were writing their own passages about how their body helps them move!

We also put our writing to work to help us wrap up our first books! Our first book is a personal narrative. These will go home with your first grader at the end of the year!

These books helped us work on our handwriting, transition words, story telling, and sequencing. The kids had a blast. :)

Our focus in math was finding missing addends. There are many strategies to solve for a missing addend, however, we were mostly focusing on counting on. As time goes on, your student might also begin to subtract to solve these problems!

Every day, we begin with a mental math problem. We use this time to discuss strategies, as well as misconceptions.

From here, we break into groups! Groups work on different skills. This group was working on figuring out "how many more" to make a certain number.

 By the end of the week, we all wrote our own Missing Addend word problem about a sneaky thief!

Our focus in language has been to ensure we are writing sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation. We like to incorporate some movement into this time so we love a good round of Write the Room! :)

Have a FABULOUS week!