September 25-29, 2017

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday - 3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

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

Upcoming Events & Reminders
September 25-29 - Hearing Screenings
September 26 - KY Kids Day
September 26 - PTP Parent Meeting at 6pm
October 4 - First Grade Field Trip
October 5-6 - Fall Break
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
November 10 - Tentative date for 1st grading period awards

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with short o.
I can identify an asking sentence by its question mark and question words.
I can compare telling and asking sentences.
I can write to tell a story.
I can solve addition word problems within 10.
I can identify key details in a story.

Spelling Words
hop
top
log
hog
hot
lot

Sight Words

they
fun
make
too

Week in Review

It was Book Fair week! The kids loved every second of it. :) On weeks like this, you just have to "embrace the craziness." The kiddos were dying to get to the book fair - and I am so thankful to those who donated books from the fair to our classroom. Now we can enjoy the fair all year long! THANK YOU!

We had so much fun bringing our stuffed animals to school so that we could enjoy our "Teddy Bear Picnic" when other grades celebrated Grandparents Day. We wrote with our animals...

 and took them outside for a picnic!

At the end of the day, we read Corduroy and left our animals at school for a slumber party.

When we got to school the next morning, THEY HAD MOVED.

Those silly animals :)

When we weren't being amazed by our animals, we were working our way through identifying and retelling books from our new Wonders series.

Our EQ (Essential Question) for the week was: What makes a pet special?
The first book we read was:

In small group, we work together to identify key details and turn them into a story mountain.

 Our story mountain has a beginning, a middle, and an end! These kiddos were retelling a silly story called, "Who Needs Rooster?"

We also practiced as an entire class retelling a funny story about a pet dinosaur who wanted to come to school. You can tell by our key details that the teacher was mad at first, but she grew to like him. :)
Your first grader will be able to do all of this independently by the end of this week!

At the end of the week, we made our own special pet posters. We like to incorporate art into our learning whenever we can!

We listed allllll of the pets we learned about this week and chose which one was our personal favorite. The students then created a poster filled with labels and reasons why the pet was special (just like an illustrator and author would do for a real book!) These beautiful artworks are hanging in our hallway now...I couldn't resist!

The cool part about Wonders is that not only do our texts follow a major theme, but the words in the texts include ALL of our week's sight words AND words that match our phonics skill. This week, our phonics skill was "l blends." In my small groups, we used these awesome making words folders to build words with l blends. The kids beg to use them at the end of groups and they are very powerful for training our phonemic awareness. :)

Our language skill this past week was identifying telling sentences. Telling sentences have:

• capital letter at the beginning
• a period at the end
• a WHO
• and ACTION!

The kids applied their learning at the end of the week by creating a text message conversation with some telling sentences. They were cracking me up!

Math (all of the kids' favorite part of the day) was a continuation of developing our problem solving strategies.

We learned how to do "frog jumps" on the number line.

 And we also played BATTLE! to practice our addition facts. The kiddos were eating it up!

 We also like to use digital math tools. This week, we experimented with balancing the number scale. Eventually, we will begin balancing EQUATIONS! (That's right - algebra in first grade).

I hope you've had a  GREAT weekend. Here's to another great week!

Nov. 23-27

Specials
Monday - 1
Tuesday - Non-Rotation Day!
Wednesday - No School!
Thursday - No School! (Happy Thanksgiving!)
Friday - No School!

Upcoming Events & Reminders
*Some of you asked about pictures of your student being posted on the blog. Please remember the permission slip I mentioned throughout August and September is always available over here ----->

Please consider signing up to send in some fun items for our study of holidays around the world. Some items are due this Tuesday (November 24) and some are due the Monday after break (November 30).
Click here to Sign-Up to Bring a Holiday Supply!

There will also be an opportunity to sign up to donate items or represent a country in our Holiday World Market the morning of December 15. We are so lucky to have a diverse classroom and I would love for you to come and teach us how your family celebrates the holidays! Similar to our Junie B. Jamboree, we will "travel" to each country for about 15 minutes. While we are visiting your station, you would be responsible for bringing in fun items from home (such as a map or globe to show us your country, clothing, holiday decor, etc.). Additionally, you would prepare a simple craft for us to remember your special holiday (such as a paper lantern, origami, etc.).  ***You are also more than welcome to sign up for a country other than your own.***
The Sign-Ups will be posted in the first week of December. However, if you know you would like to volunteer to help with the market, you may go ahead and e-mail me to let me know. 

November  24 - Non-Rotation Day (Global Arts and Culture Day)
November 25-27 - Thanksgiving Break!
December 2 - Junie B. Field Trip (Please remember to submit your permission slip if you have not already done so!)
December 11 - PTA Winter Dance 6:30-8pm @ Wellington
December 15 - Holiday World Market
December 17 - Chorus Performance 1:30 & 6:30pm
December 21 - January 1 - Winter break!

No Homework this week!!!

Kid-Friendly Objectives

- I can tell my opinion of what I am thankful for. 
- I can compare the lengths of objects and tell which is longer and shorter.
- I can order objects by length.
- I can identify the main idea and key details of a text.
- I can read, write, and identify possessive nouns by adding apostrophe s. ('s)
- I can read, write, and identify words with Momma E! (silent e at the end of a word)

Spelling List

Take the week off! :) No spelling words this week.

Week in Review!
You've probably noticed a huge influx in apostrophes in your child's writing. :) We are learning all about possessive nouns...and that means apostrophes are everywhere!

We did a fun "roll the noun" activity with our partners. 

We drew any animal we wanted...as long as we could label it with our possessive nouns!

We got our oxygen pumping to our brain by doing a Write the Room activity. The kids were expected to read a sentence such as, "This computer belongs to Jen," and change it into "Jen's computer" to show the possessive.

We continued to develop our understanding of Main Ideas and Details in Informational texts with a Main Idea turkey! We researched Wild Turkeys on PebbleGo and concluded the Main Idea was Wild Turkeys. As we researched, we pulled out key details and wrote one detail on each of the turkey's feathers. I'll be sure to post the finished product later this week! So gobblin' cute!

To practice supporting our opinions, we read the story "A Turkey for Thanksgiving." In this story, Mr. Moose is sent on an errand by Mrs. Moose to get a turkey for Thanksgiving. Mr. Moose finally found the perfect wild turkey to bring back...and we had to try to convince Mrs. Moose to agree with our opinion (should she or should she not eat the turkey?)

We shared our opinions aloud for a passionate debate of what we believed she should do. I will get a few examples to show you by Tuesday! :)

 We are SO ready to move on and take a break from addition and subtraction! The kids had fun exploring length and measurement this week. We began by classifying whether one object was "shorter" or "longer" than another. We also put a big bunch of items from our pencil boxes in order by length.

We discussed the importance of endpoints when measuring so that no object can cheat! In this picture, one of my friends held the string at the endpoint of her foot and showed me where the other endpoint was so that I could cut it. Now we have a unit of measurement to use around the room so that we do not have to stick our foot on everything to compare its length!

"My foot is longer than the beads. The beads are shorter than my foot."

"The rug is longer than my foot. My foot is shorter than the rug."

"Look Mrs. Carney! My foot is longer than MY FACE!"

 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!! :)