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Upcoming Events
Trimester I ends: Nov. 23
No School- Nov. 24-26 Thanksgiving Break
Report Cards go home : Dec. 7
**Please pack water bottles and extra masks each day**
Big Buddy, Little Buddy Poetry Presentation
The first and second graders have been working on planning, writing and reading our
5 senses Autumn Poem called When Autumn Falls. On Friday, we performed our poem with our Big Buddies at Community Meeting! Here are some snapshots from the performance.
Writers' Workshop
In writing, we have worked hard to make our fancy copies! Students used a rubric to identify what they are doing well and what they need to work on. We spent time creating detailed illustrations, covers, dedication pages and a cool All About the Author page.
A note on publishing...
Current best practice around student publishing and editing is that teachers work together with a child to enhance writing. We work together to target age appropriate spelling, use of capitalization and punctuation, handwriting skills, and overarching goals we have learned about.
We don't fix every single word, grammar/usage and mechanics error that would be only significant to a highly experienced writer. You will see that your child may still have misspelled words and/or other errors in their book. Please remember we are celebrating our children's hard work, growth and developmental stage.
Here are a few of the published book covers...
A BIG, BIG thank you goes out to Ms. Marie for her help laminating all of the book covers :)
Technology in the Classroom -Typing.com
This week, we began working on getting to know the keyboard and how to type using the home row. Students enjoyed learning how to position their hands on the keyboard, and locating various keys with certain fingers. We use typing.com in class to practice these skills! Each child typed their own All About the Author page in their fancy Small Moment Story. We also learned to use our laptop camera and insert a picture into a google doc.
First Grade Math This week in math, we worked on using our addition and subtraction knowledge to write equations. We learned the part, part whole model and solved many equations using this knowledge. Students used the smartboard to write equations, and later in the week we worked in flip books to write and solve equations. Students created their own number stories and drew detailed pictures to match them!
