Reading For the month of November we will be working on RETELLING (story elements). We have started to use retelling wheels in the classroom to help students with this skill. We want students to be able to identify the characters, setting, important events/details, problem/solution from a story. By now you have a retelling wheel at home.
This week we will work on using graphic organizers to write down the story elements.
Students are also reading books that have been nominated for Monarch Awards. We read the book as a class and then students write their opinion about the book. Some of the books titles we have read so far include: Hello to Zorro! ; Chicken Big! ; One Cool Friend; and Clever Jack Takes the Cake
We will have special visit from author Andrea Beaty TOMORROW!(Wednesday, Nov. 13)
Writing We have been working hard on our personal narratives. This week students will use a Rubric to check their writing.
Students will check their writing for many things. The will check to see if they have a Great Beginning that may include When? Who? What? Where?, writing in past tense, organized writing (beginning, middle, and end), details that were added to help writing sound better (describing words, sound words, repeated words, feelings), an engaging ending (not just "The End"), spaces between words, end marks, and word wall words spelled correctly!
Math We have started Unit 3. This unit continues the steady development of some important first grade topics: Telling time is extended to times on the half-hour, dimes are added to the children's existing tool box collections of coins to be counted, and work is begun on solving simple addition and subtraction problems (frames and arrows routine). This unit also explores numeric, visual, and concrete patterns. Today we talked about even and odd numbers. Students partnered up for a penny grab game. After counting and grouping their pennies into pairs they determined if they grabbed and even number or and odd number of pennies. We also learned a rhyme to help us remember: 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 are even and so great! 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are all odd and so fine! We'll explore number patterns on the number grid.
Science We are continuing to explore AIR. This week students will continue to work at centers experimenting with what air can do.
PBIS We will have an ALL school HOOT celebration on Thursday. Students will drop everything and dance! It should be a blast!
This week we will work on using graphic organizers to write down the story elements.
Students are also reading books that have been nominated for Monarch Awards. We read the book as a class and then students write their opinion about the book. Some of the books titles we have read so far include: Hello to Zorro! ; Chicken Big! ; One Cool Friend; and Clever Jack Takes the Cake
We will have special visit from author Andrea Beaty TOMORROW!(Wednesday, Nov. 13)
Writing We have been working hard on our personal narratives. This week students will use a Rubric to check their writing.
Students will check their writing for many things. The will check to see if they have a Great Beginning that may include When? Who? What? Where?, writing in past tense, organized writing (beginning, middle, and end), details that were added to help writing sound better (describing words, sound words, repeated words, feelings), an engaging ending (not just "The End"), spaces between words, end marks, and word wall words spelled correctly!
Math We have started Unit 3. This unit continues the steady development of some important first grade topics: Telling time is extended to times on the half-hour, dimes are added to the children's existing tool box collections of coins to be counted, and work is begun on solving simple addition and subtraction problems (frames and arrows routine). This unit also explores numeric, visual, and concrete patterns. Today we talked about even and odd numbers. Students partnered up for a penny grab game. After counting and grouping their pennies into pairs they determined if they grabbed and even number or and odd number of pennies. We also learned a rhyme to help us remember: 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 are even and so great! 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are all odd and so fine! We'll explore number patterns on the number grid.
Science We are continuing to explore AIR. This week students will continue to work at centers experimenting with what air can do.
PBIS We will have an ALL school HOOT celebration on Thursday. Students will drop everything and dance! It should be a blast!