Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Pictures from this week and last week!

We are busy asking and answering questions about Officer Buckle and Gloria!




We are working on place value, number sense, and addition & subtraction with Jiji on
ST Math.







We are comparing and contrasting the characters Gloria and Officer Buckle.
Did you know that we know how to use a Venn Diagram?




Our Guest Readers came in to read to the class!



We read and listened to current events on News-o-Matic.
Afterwards, we wrote down three facts and a question.
We used ChatterKid to showcase our learning on Seesaw!




We had our Kindness Connection on Friday afternoon. We worked with 3rd grade students for the project. We made a dog toy, decorated a folder with cheer for a new animal owner, and created a frame for a picture of the new pet to go inside. We learned about what it means to volunteer and how helping others is a Win-Win.























After the Kindness Connection, one of our students and her sister taught Mrs. Malek's class and our class about the Chinese New Year. They worked so hard on their presentation!




Our Leader of the Week shared his pictures from home.


We synergized and worked on a math challenge of creating true equations using only 2, 3, 4, and 6.







This Week in Room 8 (1/30-2/3)

I hope this finds everyone healthy. It was no fun being sick over the weekend and out of school yesterday with a sinus infection. :( I was happy to be back today with the kids!

ELA:

Phonics - We will review skills to date.
Grammar - We will continue to work on the use of pronouns in sentences.
Sight Words - many, if, long, wish, sing

Reading - Our extended text for the upcoming weeks is The Lorax.
We will also be reading, The Recess Queen and Miss Nelson is Missing. Students will have discussions about how the main character's, character traits and identify what made the characters strong leaders. Students will focus on the following standards:
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • Describe characters, setting, and major events in a story using key details.
Writing - Students will continue to add definitions to character traits in their character journal and identify evidence from each story of  how characters demonstrated those traits. 

Students will also write about Groundhog Day and why they each, do or do not want the groundhog to see his shadow. 

Students will also write a reflection of learning for the month of January.

Math:
Students will work on the following skills:
  • determine the unknown whole number in a addition or subtraction sentence.
  • Organize, represent and interpret data and ask and answer questions about the data points.
Science:
Students will define what a vibration means and understand that sound occurs when air vibrates.


Leader in Me:
This week we will have an assembly led by the second grade students. The assembly will focus on Habit 4 Think Win Win.

Monday, January 23, 2017

This Week in Room 8

This week we begin Quarter 3 in 1st Grade!

ELA: 
We started our new unit on Leadership and Good Citizens. We will be reading a wide-range of fiction and non-fiction text to learn more about leadership qualities and characteristics of a good citizen.

Skills that we will be working on this week include:

  • Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses
  • Understand the differences between words, phrases, and sentences
  • Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories
  • Understand "who" and "what" within stories
  • Understand what an adventure is
  • Understand what an experience is
  • Contractions
Word Wall Words:
  • found     
  • because    
  • best    
  • upon     
  • these
Math:
This week we will continue to work on the following skills:
  • Place Value and place value regrouping
  • adding with and without regrouping
  • Organize, interpret, and represent data from a graph
Science:
This week we will begin to learn about sound and how sound travels!

Rooted Mind:
This week our root is "bio" which means life.


We LOVE Buddy Reading!












Our Guest Reader came in to share stories with the class!


We are learning about peer editing. 
Students are doing a great job making suggestions to help the writer!