Celebrating Our Writing and Adventures From 11/15-11/19

 

Here are the highlights from our week:  

This week we:

• Celebrated our writing with an Author Share!  

• Worked on math problems with both addends unknown and how to find all the solutions.

• Read and spelled words with digraphs at the beginning and end of the word

• Finished up our personal narratives and sent the home

• Learned about the process of Dairy Farming and then made our own butter

• Continued to work on reading stamina and pushing through when things are hard

• Learned that reading isn’t just reading the words, it’s also thinking about those words too

After vacation we will:

• Learn blended sounds

• Add new reading strategies

• Work on automaticity with partners to 10

• Solve problems with 3 addends

• Learn new mapping skills and cardinal directions 

• Learn our home address 

• Start a new mapping unit as we pretend to travel around the world learning how people around the world celebrate in December

First Grade Fun from 11/8-11/12

Our reading challenge is off to a great start.  We already have 6 hours of reading towards our 60 hour goal!

Here are the highlights from our week. This week we:

• Have 6 hours of reading towards our 60 hour goal

• Worked with ending digraph sounds sh, ch, ph, th, ck

• Edited our personal narratives and have started the publishing process

• Learned the reading strategy of trying both vowel sounds 

• Used our clay vegetables and created our own farm to market playset

• Started our Dairy in the Classroom Program

• Learned to solve missing addend problems

Here is a sneak peek of what we will be doing next week:

We will be:

• Learning the parts of a sentence

• Practice trying more than one reading strategy when solving an unknown word 

• Finish our personal narratives and share them

• Solve word problems with both addends unknown. Finding all combinations of a number.

• Complete our second lesson with Dairy in the Classroom

• Working on story sequencing and looking at close details

 

Adventures from 11/1-11/5

What a busy week we had! 

Here are the highlights from our week:

This week in 1st Grade we:

• Introduced the digraph sounds sh, ch, wh, th, ph

• Sent home snap words we are learning

• Added endings to our personal narratives

• Learned more about the buy, produce, sell cycle on a farm

• Created clay vegetables for a pretend farmer’s market

• Worked on the subtraction strategy counting back

• Looked closely at our number and letter formation to make sure they are going in the correct direction

• Made text to self connections with our reading

• Added more books to our reading pouches for home to school reading

Next week will:

• Finish up our personal narratives

• Work on the reading strategy of trying both sounds a vowel can make in the word

• Add ending digraph ck to our phonics lessons

• Introduce missing addend problems in math

• Start our Reading at Home challenge!

• Introduce Dairy Farming and the process of how we get dairy products

• Our UVM student teachers will share another lesson with us. 

 

Book Character Dress Up Day Is Thursday!

 Thursday

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November 4th

Students are invited to dress up as their favorite book character!