The Week of Oct. 14

Upcoming Events

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Oct. 21-24

Please sign up for a parent/teacher conference if you  haven't done so already. I am excited to talk together about goals for the year. If this week doesn't work for you, please contact me so that we can plan an alternative time to meet. 

Field Trip to Robtoy Farm  
October 24

9:00-12:00

Mallory Tague and Kim Wood will be attending as our classroom chaperones.

November 1, 2019
Early Release Day @ 11:30

Inside Recess won't get us down! Enjoying our favorite GoNoodle activities!
























Long Ago and Today
Checking out a map of Waterville and Belvidere! Students found their roads and noted the rivers, covered bridges and more! We learned some interesting facts about our towns from the past, and located where the 5 schools were in Waterville and the 7 schools in Belvidere! We used Google Earth to type in our addresses and find our homes! 














Writers' Workshop
This week, we worked more on adding feeling into our small moment stories. We read Shortcut by Donald Crews and noticed his story teller voice. Later we watched an informational video on trains and noticed the difference between a story teller voice vs. informational voice.  Students worked on telling their stories bit by bit and revising their beginnings to match a story teller's voice.









Readers' Workshop
Readers' worked on pushing themselves to read more and more during readers' workshop. We also practiced smoothing out our voices and rereading our books. Students practiced scooping up words with their eyes, rather than pointing to each and every word. Some students worked in small groups while others read with partners and independently. 











First Grade Math



















In math, we used tens frames to solve more number stories. Students practiced counting by 10s all the way to 150 and back! We also enjoyed playing a missing number game and placing multiples of tens on our number line! The first graders made predictions about our calendar pattern and drew them out this time. 


















We enjoyed playing on Prodigy on Thursday. This is a really cool math game that we will use during our math stations rotations. When students finish their pre-assessment, I will share their log-in information with you all! 

Big Buddies
On Wednesday we saw our Big Buddies and practiced the Habit of Mind: Persistence! Students read the book The Little Engine that Could and then imagined the little engine coming across a river on the other side- they built boats out of clay and used lots of persistence!