Adventures in First Grade: Week of Jan. 24, 2022

 Highlights from the week of Jan. 24, 2022

A fun-filled week topped off with our first trip to Cochran’s for Snow Motion!!  A HUGE THANK YOU to Mr. G. for organizing this for all of our students each year!!

This week we:

• Learned the -nk “glued sounds” (-ink, -ank, -onk, and -unk)

• Did a lot of measuring using different units (linker cubes, paper clips, and inch tiles)

• Measure different kinds of fish to determine whether they were “keepers” or not

• After reading many of the “What if You Had Animal _______s “ (books written by Sandra Markle and illustrated by Howard McWilliam) we created our own animal heads using different parts from different animals

• Had Guidance with Ms. Spaulding and continued to learn about empathy and others’ feelings

• Learned about the nonfiction features Table of contests and Comparisons

• Learned about the wonderful online resource Pebble Go and explored a myriad of animals (next week students will each choose an animal to do a  research project on!)

• Had our first Snow Motion trip!!

Highlights from the week of January 18, 2022

Highlights from the week of January 18, 2022

IMPORTANT  MESSAGE: 

Due to the high number of positive Covid-19 cases currently, our administration is asking that you please take the time to fill out this survey about getting At Home Rapid Antigen tests in the event that your child/ren needs them. We thank you in advance. 

 

Also, I want to be sure to express a huge thank you to those of you who were able to send in baby wipes and/or Clorox-type wipes.  It is very appreciated as we are trying our best to keep our room as clean and germ-free as possible.  

It was a short and cold week but we were able to pack in a lot of learning and fun! 

We: 

• Continued to learn and practice the -ng “glued sounds” during our Word Study time

• Learned about what makes a complete sentence

• Listened to many of the “What if You Had Animal (Teeth, Hair, etc.) ” books as we continue to focus on animal traits and characteristics.  

• Began our new math unit on measurement

• Compared items around the classroom to a standard ruler to assess whether they were longer or shorter than the ruler

• Started learning about time and how to tell time to the hour

• Learned about the following nonfiction features: captions, headings,  and maps 

• Had our school-wide celebration Snow Play Day

• Had an extra Choice Time as a celebration of reaching 60 hours of reading homework!!

Beginning our new math unit!

Practicing the -ng glued sounds as well as writing sentences (dictated) using words we have learned during our word study time.

SNOW PLAY DAY!!

Learning how to tell time to the hour.

Learning about more nonfiction text features.

Reading nonfiction books during our read-to-self time!

Getting in a movement break while counting by 1s to 120!