March 27-31, 2017

Specials

Monday - 3

Tuesday - 4

Wednesday -5

Thursday - 6

Friday - 1

Upcoming Events & Reminders
April 3-7 - SPRING BREAK!
April 19 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
April 24-28 Book Fair
April 27 - 1st grade to Cincinnati Zoo!
If you are interested in chaperoning, please make sure your background check and volunteer forms are complete! 
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

my
try
fly
shy
baby
lady
mommy
sleepy

LIST B

buy
why
sly
reply
crazy
navy
lazy
daddy

Sight Words
Beginning this week, I will begin identifying five sight words for you to practice reading and writing at home each week. I will be choosing 2 of these words to put on our spelling test.

number
what
could
said
here

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can read, write, and identify words with y as a vowel.
I can write to tell a fictional story.
I can partition shapes into halves and fourths.
I can use illustrations in a text to talk about characters, settings, and events.
I can read and correctly use prepositions in a sentence.

Classroom Donations
-Do you have any gently used books at home (any level) that you are no longer using?
We would LOVE to add some more to our library. We are always looking for more chapter books and picture books :)
-Dry Erase markers
-Stickers
-Post-its

Week in Review
We're starting out with math this week!
This week was all about attributes. To begin, we talked about the attributes of BUTTONS! We read a Frog and Toad book called The Lost Button.

 We sorted my buttons by their attributes.

 Then we wrote about it (I LOVE incorporating writing into mathematics).

 The next day, we sorted our pattern blocks by THEIR attributes.

 We had fun playing "Guess my Attribute." The kids selected 3 shapes and we had to use logic to figure out the attribute used to group those shapes together. Can you guess Apollo's attribute?

 This game creates such great conversation!

When we were finished, we got to compose shapes with our pattern blocks. One sneaky friend helped me make a person...then she insisted they dab. Oh dear.

 We composed shapes by playing Fill My Shape.

 We also problem solved to figure out how many triangles it takes to make a rhombus, trapezoid, hexagon, etc.

Check out that concentration!

 At the end of the week, we wrote about attributes again. This time, we were creating riddles!

 Friday, we used those riddles to help us construct shapes with popsicle sticks and velcro!

 Check out that hexagon!

 These kiddos got a kick out of their circles...if you couldn't tell.

We had great conversations about our comprehension skill: using the illustrations to give us details.

 We had a blast with compound construction this week. We constructed compound words by collaborating to complete puzzles, cup stacks, and matching Easter eggs. The kids had so much fun!

There are 239487 million more pictures that I am keeping in my pocket for our end of the year video. :)

I hope you have a great week!

April 4-8, 2016

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday - 3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

Upcoming Events

April 5 - PTA Family Night at Puccini's Boston Road

April 6 - Spring Pictures for all students

April 8 - Snow Makeup Day
April 8 - Report Cards go home

April 11-15 - Book Fair

April 11 - May 13 - FAST Testing Window (This just means we will be taking our final FAST Assessment sometime in this window)

April 13 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast

April 14 - Celebrate the Arts Night

April 15 - Student Recognition awards (10AM in the gym)
May 5 - 1st grade Field Trip to Cincinnati Zoo (Thanks to those who have sponsored so many kiddos!!! If you have not yet returned your permission slip, please do so ASAP!)
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 26 - Last Day :( 

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can tell whether two parts of a shape are equal or unequal.
I can read, write, and identify fractions of a shape as halves or quarters.
I can read, write, and identify words with ir, er, and ur.
I can correctly use commas in a series.
I can write a fictional narrative.
I can compare and contrast events and characters in a story.

Spelling Lists

A

bird
dirt
shirt
germ
fern
curb
burn
hurt
water
baker

B

first
bird
third
shirt
germ
clerk
nurse
purse
blurt
water

Wish List

Pink Erasers

Week in Review
Ahh...the week before Spring Break. It means we slowed down and relaxed, right? Not so much! We kept it cranking the whole week through. :)

For starters, I let this week's VIPs lead pretty much...everything. They're almost second graders now so they can handle it! One of our VIPs helped us on the first day of contractions by calling on people to predict what two words become when they are smooshed into a shorter way of saying it.

We also did some serious group work to help us perfect our fictional narrative concepts. 

Sometimes we crack ourselves up with our stories! :)

 We use our friends to help us think through our stories, too.

Another way to help us focus our writing is to use other writer's examples. This week, we focused on Cinderella and its many different versions. We became experts at finding the ways these stories were similar and different.

In math, we continued our work with attributes and carried it into composing shapes.

Here are some of the ways we mastered that skill this week!

 We reviewed attributes by sorting "Woozles" and making our own Woozle family! We noticed that all of our families have one thing in common (maybe we all have brown eyes, or black hair, or we share the same last name). We used those similarities to help us think of an attribute our Woozle families could have in common.

Then we used our Woozles to sort them in our Woozle town!

If you can't tell, we LOVE Math in First Grade! :) Have a great week!