October has been a busy month in first grade. The students have researched and learned so many interesting facts about bats, spiders and pumpkins. If you see a first grader walking around, ask them to share their knowledge on these topics. The 1st and 2nd graders "got to know" a pumpkin this week. Each student brought a pumpkin to school. They wrote adjectives that described their special pumpkin, they read to their pumpkin, they weighed the pumpkin and measured the circumference of their pumpkin. We mixed all of the pumpkins into a big pile and they had to find the pumpkin that matched their description. Each pumpkin made it to its rightful owner. Today we "gutted" each pumpkin and boy oh boy did we have pumpkin faces, hands, knees, elbows and arms as we worked on this project. Tomorrow we will have the help of some 8th and 9th graders and each student will carve a face into their pumpkin. I'm excited to meet the jack-o-lanterns that will be created.
The first graders are rocking in their math shoes!!!!! Every student scored 100% on their math test yesterday! I am seeing improvements each day.
We have completed theme 2 in our reading series and are now in theme 3. The students are always saying..."WE ARE READERS,,,WE ARE READERS!!!" They are so excited to read to anyone who will listen, just ask our pumpkins, lol. In theme 3 we will focus on sequencing, main idea and details, topic sentences, summarizing, words with double consonant endings, consonant blends, long vowel words, plurals with -s, and verb endings -s, -ed, and -ing.
There is never a dull moment in first grade!!!
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
October 3, 2017
HaPpY OcToBeR....Things here in first grade are getting a little "batty"!!! Yes we are studying bats this week and we have some large vocabulary words to prove it. Bats are nocturnal mammals. Some bats hibernate. All bats use echolocation to navigate. Microbats eat millions of mosquitoes and insects, we like that! Megabats eat fruits and help spread seeds. We will make bats, read about bats, research bats, compare bats and play games using "echolocation".
Next week we will have our theme 2 reading test, the information for that test will be in the weekly folder this week. I am so proud of the progress the children are making. We are reading CVC words and are learning to read CVCe words. We have mastered all of our first high frequency word list and are working on list 2. We will work with "s" blend words this week. We are dividing words into syllables to decode and we have learned the "i" and "e" sound that -y makes at the end of a word.
Fun in math.
The children learned a rap song to help them memorize their doubles facts. They are writing number sentences and solving word problems. They are creating amazing patterns with pattern blocks. We are using ordinal numbers, color words, directional words and number words every day. Math time is a busy time in first grade
Stay tuned for SpIdErS, pUmPkInS and other HaLlOwEen things...
Next week we will have our theme 2 reading test, the information for that test will be in the weekly folder this week. I am so proud of the progress the children are making. We are reading CVC words and are learning to read CVCe words. We have mastered all of our first high frequency word list and are working on list 2. We will work with "s" blend words this week. We are dividing words into syllables to decode and we have learned the "i" and "e" sound that -y makes at the end of a word.
Fun in math.
The children learned a rap song to help them memorize their doubles facts. They are writing number sentences and solving word problems. They are creating amazing patterns with pattern blocks. We are using ordinal numbers, color words, directional words and number words every day. Math time is a busy time in first grade
Stay tuned for SpIdErS, pUmPkInS and other HaLlOwEen things...
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