January 30 - February 3, 2017

Specials

Monday - 2

Tuesday - 3

Wednesday -4

Thursday - 5

Friday -6

Upcoming Events & Reminders
February 3 - 2nd grading period awards. 10AM. I have e-mailed you if your child will be receiving an award for the past 9 weeks!
We will also be watching Happy Feet on this day. Please return your permission slip by Friday OR complete it online at this link: Happy Feet Online Permission Slip
February 14 - Valentine's Day Celebration! More details coming this week - we will be in need of supplies and volunteers!
February 20 - President's Day. No School
February 21-March 10 - Jump Rope for Heart
March 7 - Family Fun Night at City BBQ

Spelling List

LIST A

pie
tie
lie
died
tied
pies
lies

LIST B

same as List A

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can read, write, and identify words with the -ie spelling pattern. (Long I)
I can write to tell my opinion and support it with at least 2 reasons.
I can correctly tell time to the hour and half hour.
I can identify an author's point and the reasons he/she gives to support it.
I can correctly match a verb to its singular or plural noun.

Week in Review
We started this week off with the 99th day of school! Evil Dr. Double Digit came to school and tried to keep us from making it to the 100th day. Thankfully, Zero the Hero let all of the other first grade classes know there were challenges we could complete that would help us defeat Evil Dr. Double Digit.

We came to school ready to defeat him!

We made our capes full of one hundred things (we had to prove we were smart enough to make it to triple digits). 

We also did 100 exercises. Talk about team work and encouragement...the kids were encouraging each other to keep going in order to get them all finished! 

After completing all of the challenges, we finally made it to the 100th day. We had so much fun pretending to be from the future...even the teachers joined in on the fun!

For reading this week, we focused on the power author's use to include information in pictures AND words in nonfiction texts.

We used this newfound skill to help us learn about these penguins:
South African Penguins

South American Penguins

Rockhopper penguins

and Macaroni Penguins!

This was our last week of practicing opinion writing before we used our honed skills to write a published piece about penguins. 
We had fun with this book: 

We wrote our opinion of what we would want it to rain!

We also wrote our opinion of why a particular family member is great!

(We deliberately did not choose the BEST family member because we know everyone in our family is wonderful :) )

We also learned that some people can even get paid to write their opinions! Cue the MOVIE REVIEW! Some of our kids even made a connection to seeing app reviews in the app store...I think I hear a future Work on Writing prompt in the works...

On Monday, we finished up our data unit in Math with SKITTLES!

Then we moved into telling TIME!!! This is a monster of a unit so this past week was only about telling time to the hour.

This song helped us incorporate our Kinesthetic and Auditory learners by moving and singing to teach us how to read a clock!

We started out by doing some investigating to determine how long one second, one minute, and one hour really are.

We closed our eyes and raised our hand when we thought 1 minute had passed and BOY did we have a lot of misconceptions! :-) 

Afterwards, we brainstormed a list of things we can do in one SECOND and a list of things we can do in one MINUTE. Finally, we sorted activities by each increment of time.

The next day, we built a clock to see how many minutes were in an hour.

 Then we took turns moving the hour hand (green for start here) and leaving the minute hand (red for stop) to read different times on the clock.

 They were only a LITTLE proud for venturing into the half hour.

Finally...it was time for PLAYDOH!
We practiced rolling the time and building it on our own clock mats.

We ended the week with a nice, relaxing read with our 4th grade buddies (and some minor talk about the impending snow!) 

Hope you have a fabulous week ahead!

Feb. 1-5, 2016

Specials
Monday - 2
Tuesday - 3
Wednesday - 4
Thursday - 5
Friday - 6

Upcoming Events
February 5th - Penguin Day!! Dress in Black and White (yes...you may add extra details to look like a penguin! :) )
February 12th- Valentine's Day Activities. Click here to sign up to donate for our Valentine's Day fun!
February 15th - No school!

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can read and write words with igh.
I can write about a topic and give a few facts.
I can tell when information comes from a picture or from the words.
I can match plural subjects to plural verbs.
I can match singular subjects to singular verbs.
I can add a double-digit number to a single-digit number.

Spelling List
Please continue to practice writing your spelling words in sentences!

List A (Purple Cats, Green Frogs)
high
sigh
fight
light
night
right
tight
flight
bright
knight

List B (Blue Dogs, Yellow Ducks)
fright
bright
right
tight
knight
flight
might
slight
delight
highlight

Week in Review
Oh my goodness what a fun week! In only 5 days we accomplished SO much...
We discovered what "shades of meaning" meant.

We spent some time thinking about how in the world can we "Save the Penguins?!" We worked hard to collaborate with our teammates to design a penguin nest using "found" objects,  just like South African penguins! We learned that South African penguins can survive in the heat, but they LOVE to cool down in the water. They have to be very clever to design nests with their found objects to protect their eggs and chicks from the heat, predators, and the hot sand. We had a contest to determine whose egg (penguin-shaped ice) could survive under the heat of the sun (our lamps). Congratulations Group 6!!!

Our final products!

We continued comparing the heights of our penguins.

(We still don't know how our bottom ruler mysteriously vanished!)

We continued to work on our Hundreds Chart...we hope our 100s Chart Cupid Shuffle makes it onto the Wellington News this week! (Fingers crossed!)

We defeated Evil Dr. Double Digit by coming to school dressed as spies or super heroes!

 We discovered Zero the Hero left us all sorts of tasks to complete so Evil Dr. Double Digit couldn't keep up us from the triple digits!

Task 1: Complete your Cape with 10 groups of 10 designs!

We quickly discovered he had an evil companion: Evil Dr. Don't Do It! If one Evil Dr. wasn't enough, we discovered there was another man on the loose trying to take away all of the VERBS at Wellington! We went into super stealth mode to find all of the stolen verbs in the school.

We had to complete a series of other tasks, like this one where we had to use 100 straws to make a tower!

  We defeated him and made it to the 100th day!

 We ended the week with a wonderful ceremony to celebrate all of our hard workers.

Thanks for all you do!