January has been filled will topics related to cold weather. Many of the students experienced snow for the first time. Each student wrote a story about building a snow man in which they used the sequencing frame FIRST, NEXT, THEN, LAST as a guide to help with sequence and recall. We made "snow paint" using glue and shaving cream and we used it to paint snowmen, the pictures dried into puffy 3-D snowmen. We made "snow" from cornstarch and lotion and enjoyed making snowballs with our classroom snow. We put water and food coloring in an ice tray and left it in the fairy garden over night. When we left it it was a liquid, but when we found it the next morning it had frozen into solid cubes. We used these colored cubes to do ice drawings (we had to work quickly because the cubes were cold!!) This week we will be studying about Arctic animals and how they survive in the cold. We built a "den" in the math room to protect us from the cold...(the AC unit blowing full force!), we saw how a shelter is helpful in keeping us warm. We will do an experiment using blubber to find out how important this fat layer is for our cold weather friends.
In math we have been working on addition and subtraction facts with 2, addition facts that we call "doubles +1, graphing, tallying, counting by 2's, 5's and 10's forward and backwards, number words, double digit addition with out regrouping and word problems. We will begin regrouping soon!!
We have completed Theme 5 in our reading series and we started the Accelerated Reader program. Our reading skills are really getting stronger. Stop by first grade and you may just find us curled up with a good book!
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