Winter Sports Fun!
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Monday, January 27, 2020
The Week of January 20
Upcoming Events
January book orders are due on January 29th!
Please submit online or send your book order and a check made out to Scholastic.
Thank you!
January 29 and February 5
Winter Sports Days
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Brass Band
January 31
***If your child is ice skating and you have a bike helmet or winter helmet at home, PLEASE send it with your child***
Teacher In-Service/ No School
February 7
Readers' Workshop
In reading this week, we worked more on reading nonfiction texts and talking with our partner about our books! We are reading a new mentor text called Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons. We are using this book to make predictions, and think about key words and their meanings.
Writers' Workshop
The first and second graders are finishing up a short immersion phase of writing. This is where we study the flow of an informational book, how it goes and the important text features authors use. We studied beginnings, middles and ends of different informational books. We looked at student work samples and annotated them together. We created some classroom anchor charts together to help us as we begin writing our own texts.
Science
We have been busy trying to figure out how sound is produced. We experimented with tuning forks, drums and ukuleles. Students built their own kazoos and determined that vibration and sound are connected. Sound can cause vibration and vibration can cause sound. They really loved watching the strings of a guitar plucked in slow motion, we also watched a drum being struck too!
Friday Circle
Our focus this week was on friendship. We listened to Lean on Me by Bill Withers, and talked about attributes of a good friend, and what would make you not want to be friends with a person.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Brass Band
January 31
***If your child is ice skating and you have a bike helmet or winter helmet at home, PLEASE send it with your child***
Teacher In-Service/ No School
February 7
Readers' Workshop
In reading this week, we worked more on reading nonfiction texts and talking with our partner about our books! We are reading a new mentor text called Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons. We are using this book to make predictions, and think about key words and their meanings.
Writers' Workshop
The first and second graders are finishing up a short immersion phase of writing. This is where we study the flow of an informational book, how it goes and the important text features authors use. We studied beginnings, middles and ends of different informational books. We looked at student work samples and annotated them together. We created some classroom anchor charts together to help us as we begin writing our own texts.
We have been busy trying to figure out how sound is produced. We experimented with tuning forks, drums and ukuleles. Students built their own kazoos and determined that vibration and sound are connected. Sound can cause vibration and vibration can cause sound. They really loved watching the strings of a guitar plucked in slow motion, we also watched a drum being struck too!
Friday Circle
Our focus this week was on friendship. We listened to Lean on Me by Bill Withers, and talked about attributes of a good friend, and what would make you not want to be friends with a person.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Book Orders Due
Scholastic Book Orders
January book orders are due on January 29th!
Please submit online or send your book order and a check made out to Scholastic.
Thank you!
Mrs. Marcelino
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The Week of January 13
It is that time of year again... we have had a lot of students and teachers out sick in our school. We have begun washing our hands upon arrival in the morning and in the afternoon to stop the spread of germs around the classroom. Encourage your kiddos to get lots of sleep, drink water and eat lots of vitamin C rich foods. Please feel free to send a water bottle to school each day!
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
January 22, January 29, February 5
Winter Sports Days
***If your child is ice skating and you have a bike helmet or winter helmet at home, PLEASE send it with your child**
On Thursday we began a new science unit of study on sound. Students watched a video on a bee flying around in a flower. We could hear the buzzing sound bees make. We call this our phenomenon... a natural occurrence that piques our curiosity- Students then drew an initial model of what they thought was making the sound. We shared our initial understandings and formed questions. On Friday, we tried to figure out where sounds come from. Students did a "listening walk" based on the book Listening Walk by Paul Showers. Check the book out below...
Our science units are based on the Science Practice Standards and NGSS. I love science and figuring things out with the kids!
Listening Walk
This week in math, we began Unit 4. We are studying the number line model and have begun investigating the open number line as well. We are using this model to add and subtract. The first graders are also working on adding doubles and doubles +1 facts, and have loved our daily counting practice with Jack Hartmann! Check out the fun songs we sing below!
Counting by 10s
Money in my Pocket!
***If your child is ice skating and you have a bike helmet or winter helmet at home, PLEASE send it with your child**
We are so excited to begin our 2020 Winter Sports Program! We are all looking forward to getting outside and enjoying some of the snow. Please make sure that your child is prepared for their winter activity. I just wanted to remind you of a couple of things you should pack for your child.
Winter Sports Checklist
- Warm clothes: snow pants, boots, hats, mittens and neck warmers.
- Have your child dressed in comfortable clothes: sweatpants, sweatshirts and warm socks.
- A back pack to keep all of your things together.
- A change of clothes. You never know when you will need them!
- Non-perishable lunch, snacks and drinks
- Any equipment you are providing such as snowboards, boots, skis, goggles, helmets, skates, snow shoes etc.
We continued with our nonfiction unit of study this week. We worked on paying close attention to the details of our books, doing a sneak peak and asking how will this book go? We also worked on putting the pieces together to make good predictions. Readers met with their new reading partners to share the "gifts of nonfiction texts", those special moments where you learn something really cool! Each child got two National Geographic Magazines to read and keep! We will get a new one each month!
Habits of Mind with our Big Buddies
This week we focused on Listening with Understanding and Empathy! We enjoyed making these fun head bands with our big buddies!
New Science Unit of Study: Sound
On Thursday we began a new science unit of study on sound. Students watched a video on a bee flying around in a flower. We could hear the buzzing sound bees make. We call this our phenomenon... a natural occurrence that piques our curiosity- Students then drew an initial model of what they thought was making the sound. We shared our initial understandings and formed questions. On Friday, we tried to figure out where sounds come from. Students did a "listening walk" based on the book Listening Walk by Paul Showers. Check the book out below...
Our science units are based on the Science Practice Standards and NGSS. I love science and figuring things out with the kids!
Listening Walk
Go Noodle!
Staying warm and having some fun!
Staying warm and having some fun!
First Grade Math
This week in math, we began Unit 4. We are studying the number line model and have begun investigating the open number line as well. We are using this model to add and subtract. The first graders are also working on adding doubles and doubles +1 facts, and have loved our daily counting practice with Jack Hartmann! Check out the fun songs we sing below!
Counting by 10s
Money in my Pocket!
Monday, January 13, 2020
The Week of January 6
Upcoming Events
Jan. 20 No School
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Winter Sports Days
Jan. 22, 29 and Feb. 5
Friday Dance Party
School Wide PAWS Celebration
Classroom Community
In the past week we have gone back and reviewed the PAWS rules and expectations in our school! We have worked to review and practice our classroom routines. On Friday we filled our PAWS jar, and the kiddos were excited to take a piece off our PAWS puzzle in the hallway!
Upon returning from our holiday break, students began learning about the Zones of Regulation. We created classroom posters of feelings that go along with the four zones (red, yellow, green and blue). We played a Zones of Regulation bingo game together. Students reviewed expected and unexpected behaviors and how we feel when our friends act in unexpected and expected ways.
Friday Circle
On Friday, we had a Community Building Restorative Circle in class. We talked about unexpected and expected behaviors. We shared ideas we have to help maintain respect for students who are in not in the green zone.
Readers' Workshop
Friday Dance Party
School Wide PAWS Celebration
Classroom Community
In the past week we have gone back and reviewed the PAWS rules and expectations in our school! We have worked to review and practice our classroom routines. On Friday we filled our PAWS jar, and the kiddos were excited to take a piece off our PAWS puzzle in the hallway!
Upon returning from our holiday break, students began learning about the Zones of Regulation. We created classroom posters of feelings that go along with the four zones (red, yellow, green and blue). We played a Zones of Regulation bingo game together. Students reviewed expected and unexpected behaviors and how we feel when our friends act in unexpected and expected ways.
Friday Circle
On Friday, we had a Community Building Restorative Circle in class. We talked about unexpected and expected behaviors. We shared ideas we have to help maintain respect for students who are in not in the green zone.
Readers' Workshop
In reading, we reviewed goal setting and making a plan for our growing reading skills! We began a new unit of study on Non-Fiction texts. Students practiced looking carefully at details. We studied posters, diagrams, 3D models and high interest nonfiction books. We read a very cool mentor text called Beavers by Gail Gibbons. We studied the words and illustrations and began asking questions.
During independent reading time, I held reading conferences with many students. I sent home new reading logs in all folders, and filled my prize chest with some cool new coupons!
Writers' Workshop
In writing, we worked more on writing our own poems! Students wrote their own acrostic poems, shape poems and list poems. We are using the Scratch app to code our own acrostic poems. The poems of very cool and once we finish, I will post on our classroom blog.
We also took a pre-assessment in writing. Our next writing unit will be on writing our own nonfiction books. I am working hard to incorporate technology use into our daily work here at school.
Spelling/Fundations
In spelling we continue to work in our small groups. Students are working on long and short vowels and beginning blends. On Thursday and Friday, we planned out and created our own game boards! We will use these game-boards as a way to practice spelling our words.
During independent reading time, I held reading conferences with many students. I sent home new reading logs in all folders, and filled my prize chest with some cool new coupons!
Writers' Workshop
In writing, we worked more on writing our own poems! Students wrote their own acrostic poems, shape poems and list poems. We are using the Scratch app to code our own acrostic poems. The poems of very cool and once we finish, I will post on our classroom blog.
We also took a pre-assessment in writing. Our next writing unit will be on writing our own nonfiction books. I am working hard to incorporate technology use into our daily work here at school.
Spelling/Fundations
In spelling we continue to work in our small groups. Students are working on long and short vowels and beginning blends. On Thursday and Friday, we planned out and created our own game boards! We will use these game-boards as a way to practice spelling our words.
Math
The first graders finished up unit 3 and also took time to learn the basics of coding! We have a classroom coding set which we really love exploring. Students are learning to create mazes for a robotic mouse. Then we create codes for the mouse to find the hidden piece of cheese at the end of the maze. We are also coding on Scratch during math stations.
SCRATCH
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