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!!!
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